Sentences with phrase «predominantly black population»

President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Steve Golding will talk about the Association's efforts to assist and uplift the predominantly black population on the island nation.

Interrogated by police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson), Brenda explains that as she was driving to her home in a neighboring town — that is, going from an area with a predominantly black population to one that's almost strictly white — a black man stopped her and forced her out of the car.

Pugh et al. (33) conducted a pilot study in 2002 that paired a nurse and a PC to form a breastfeeding team who provided breastfeeding education and support to a low - income, predominantly black population.

Another article in The New York Times this week tells the story of Camden, New Jersey, long a notoriously failing city with a predominantly black population.

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In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

In this 8 - year trial, involving 41,186 particpants of the Black Women's Health Study, research data confirmed inverse associations between magnesium, calcium and major food sources in relation to type 2 diabetes that had already been reported in predominantly white populations.

Despite its name, Brandeis served a predominantly poor and working - class black and Latino population (at that time schools were named without paying much attention to the culture and history of the surrounding community).

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

During the 2012 - 13 school year in New Haven, a school district serving predominantly Black and Latino students, the district handed out nearly 2,000 out - of - school suspensions in a population of approximately 21,183 students.

This troubling yet pervasive tableau has bedeviled modern reform movements since their inception: Leadership has remained predominantly white, even though the target populations are overwhelmingly black and Latino.

Many of these schools are schools where the student population is predominantly black or brown with a school community of black and brown leaders.

While this lack of proportional diversity exists in several professions, when your job focuses on leading a mostly black and Latino student population to succeed academically and socially in a predominantly white society, race matters so much more.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

Section IV discusses the incongruities between the concept of joint custody as advocated and the realities of a predominantly black community in which poverty defines the lives of a significant segment of the population.