Sentences with phrase «poor black residents»

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

Not exact matches

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

The Kind of Violence Americans Ignore: Air pollution is poisoning the residents of a poor, historically black neighborhood in Orlando, Florida.

Yet, as Martin Marty asks, «how many movement people knew well even one black, one ghetto resident, one member of the Appalachian poor?»

Now if Paul was writing today, he could have written about blacks vs whites, Republicans vs. Democrats, rich vs. poor, police vs. inner city residents, or even something like Christians vs. Muslims.

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

He said the city's poor and mostly Black and Latino residents are getting the shaft.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

But like other cities, New Orleans» private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents» attitudes toward black and poor folk.

In addition, thousands of the poorest residents in the city could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residents.

Most of the project's residents were poor and black, and most attended George Washington Carver High School in the Lower Ninth Ward.

I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special education students.

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

In 2004, in the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the streets of New Orleans were filled with floating men: the bloated corpses of mostly poor, black residents left behind by rescue services.

His Black Panther Party broadsides were a form of public art that gave voice to protest against living conditions for America's poor, Black residents.