Sentences with phrase «poor blacks»

More than half a century later a minority of the black middle class has made gains, but tens of millions of poorer black people remain locked out of economic empowerment.

I support excellent education for poor Black children wherever they can find it.

The authors conclude that the problems faced by poor black children will not be solved by incremental approaches.

There are other dimensions to the problems that impact poor black people more than just race.

Poor black kids trapped in failing neighborhoods schools, that's the biggest race problem of today.

I'm a humble poor black man with a slender body type.

Poor black boys did well in such places, whether their own fathers were present or not.

But the enrollment issue also raises questions about the district's strategy for schools in vulnerable neighborhoods that tend to serve poor black students who often fall behind academically.

Poor black level performance combined with gloss results in a display that's not well equipped to handle movies and games.

The whole fabric of poor black communities is undermined by unjust criminal justice practices.

You have to ace an entrance exam to get in, but affluent parents send their kids to rigorous test prep centers and now few poor black and Latino students can get in.

It was billed as a small, low - cost experiment to help poor black children, and had a five - year sunset clause.

In other words, during the span of 4th to 8th grade poor Black and Hispanic students lose between 2 and 3 grade levels.

The main reason for this is poor black level performance.

We didn't know that this kind of thing still went on, but scientists spread «biosolids» on yards in poor black neighborhoods in Baltimore to test whether it might protect kids from lead poisoning.

For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones.

Federal welfare rules barring married women from receiving benefits, for example, is one reason why marriage among poor blacks has gone from being the norm to being extraordinarily rare since the 1950s — and why 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.

If you were confused before, now you know with certainty that the NAACP isn't interested in serving poor Black families.

Nowhere in his daylong program did he acknowledge the need to grow schools like these that are working for mostly poor black and Latino students across the city.

Later, when I emigrated to the United States and was on the staff at Wiltwyck School, I was a cultural outsider and found myself identifying with poor black people as I learned to speak English.

He went on to point toward «softer - than - expected» holiday sales of its fitness trackers, including poor Black Friday sales, though the company did see growth in some regions including the EMEA.

In one house I learned the place of aesthetics in the lives of agrarian poor black folks.

Nothing encapsulates this more strikingly than the story of Detroit: the world - renowned motor city which produced Motown Records, an American institution which caught the mood of post-war prosperity and optimism; a city which drew tens of thousands of poor black workers from the south in a successful search for a better life.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

The NAACP's stance against charter schools and the right to school choice for millions of poor Black parents starkly symbolizes how Black political influence is too often Black political cowardice and hypocrisy.

Put another way: As long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming labor.

Perennial alarums are raised about the dangers of a popular «backlash» against the poor, and against poor blacks in particular.

Founding board members didn't seek out to educate poor black children.

After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, he joined Teach for America at age 22 and went on to found an inner - city charter school dedicated to getting poor black and Latino students to and through college.

In a lot of ways, Roses in Concrete is a direct reaction against the wave of charter school chains that began opening around the start of this century — schools often founded by white men to serve poor black and Latino students — that focused on test scores and college preparation above all else.

As Mr. Scannell and some other blacks (albeit still a minority) recognize, one real victim of this way of thinking is the legacy of the civil rights movement and the legitimate concerns of black, especially poor black, Americans.

It fits right in with a man who was unsuccessfully sued for wrongful termination by former general manager Elgin Baylor, who claimed, among other things, that Sterling once said, «I would like to have a white Southern coach coaching poor black players,» and that Sterling would bring women into the locker room to gaze at his players» «beautiful black bodies.»

Among whites with whom poor blacks came into contact, the book notes one observer saying, only the policeman was not Jewish.

Do poor black and Hispanic kids really need to be in «no excuses» schools that insist on rote learning and rote behavior?

Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats at the time, backed the Crime Bill, labeling poor black and brown youth as «superpredators» who needed to be brought «to heel.»

Plagued by drugs and alcohol, he now found himself sharing a fate suffered by all too many poor black men in the Delta.

As for the «ugly» child, Mary Grace, she listens for a while as Ruby chatters outloud about the superiority of poor blacks over «white trash.»

We have made excuses for and sometimes even glorified the supposedly rebellious actions of thugs, although those thugs have made poor black people their victims.

The distinguished speaker admonished his middle - class audience concerning their attitude toward poor blacks:

And, of course, while it is a coincidence, since the trades were made the once - poor Black Hawks have been showing signs of going onward and upward.

Instead of being a slick and sadistic social commentary of corrupt governments and gun lust, The Purge: Anarchy is a cliched tale of rich whites vs. poor black disguised as a generic thriller.

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.

«I kept asking myself, am I really the only poor black person here?»

It is a hot spring day in Marengo County, one of the most rural and poor Black Belt counties in Alabama.