Sentences with phrase «predominantly white neighborhoods»

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental burden of predominantly white neighborhoods; that includes hazardous waste sites and polluting power plants.

White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

Instead, the city has focused on predominantly white neighborhoods in North and South Buffalo that report few, if any, lead poisoning cases.

Vance's announcement comes as his office released a report detailing how black and Hispanic people living in neighborhoods predominantly of color are arrested on marijuana - related offenses at a much higher rate than people in predominantly white neighborhoods.

If you live in a predominantly white neighborhood, it means intentionally making friends with the people on your block who do not look like everyone else.

«Prisoners» was originally written as a story of two white families in a predominantly white neighborhood and their struggle, when their daughters go missing, to find their kidnapped children.

The school, South Boston High School, attracted national attention in 1974 when it was wracked by riots in the wake of court - ordered busing that brought black students into its predominantly white neighborhood.

So when the Kleins moved to Woodside Houses in its predominantly white neighborhood, 87 percent of their fellow tenants were white.

Not exact matches

A son of a solider, he was born in 1956 in a predominantly white Milwaukee neighborhood.

Because of the distribution of crime by race — why that's the case isn't at issue here — there will be more policemen with guns in predominantly black neighborhoods than white ones.

Or take our friends who have moved into a low - income, predominantly black neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, where a white and black pastor lead a church together.

The biggest possible city site for a new Bills stadium — just to the east of the Buffalo River, with a north end zone aimed at the downtown skyline — has stirred a hornet's nest of potential opposition from two neighborhoods, one predominantly African - American, the other overwhelmingly white.

His announcement followed a report released by his office, which detailed how individuals from predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods were arrested at a higher rate on marijuana charges than those living in white neighborhoods.

Cops arrest more people for marijuana offenses in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods than in mostly white areas where residents complain about the drug at similar rates.

Telvock found the program is beset with slipshod methods and puts more effort into testing predominantly white enclaves with few lead poisoning than in the inner - city neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated.

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.

One of those strategies was the elimination of the Chapter 220 program, which allowed for students of color from high - poverty neighborhoods to attend schools in predominantly white suburban school districts.

Adam Kelley, an eighth - grader at Roland Park who lives on a predominantly white street in the neighborhood, said he was glad his parents chose not to send him to a private school where most students look like him.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

On one side of the neighborhood are PS 8 and PS 199, two schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan respectively, that are well - funded and serve predominantly white student populations (Taylor 2016; Taylor, Sept. 2015).

«The location where we are right now (is) a neighborhood that is middle - income, middle - class and predominantly white,» Marcio Sierra said.

Among the most vocal critics of the Bushwick 200 project are Anthony Rosado, the Bushwick - born artist who, during Bushwick Open Studios, objected to the Bushwick Art Crit Group as a «predominantly white space» and eventually teamed up with the organization to put on an exhibit dedicated to neighborhood natives.

But too often, low - income neighborhoods and communities of color get picked as sites for polluting factories, while wealthier, predominantly white communities are left alone.

If your neighborhood is predominantly white, on the other hand, your insurance rates will drop down to $ 768 annually.

Lenders tended to view white neighborhoods as safe for mortgage lending, while tending to discriminate against predominantly African - American neighborhoods.

Inclusive Communities alleged that the Texas Department of Housing and Community affairs had violated the federal Fair Housing Act by allocating too many tax credits to housing developments in predominantly black inner - city areas and too few in predominantly white suburban neighborhoods.