Sentences with phrase «white neighborhoods as»

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

Not exact matches

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Type «White people ruin,» as a potential advertising keyword into Google's ad platform, and Google will suggest you run ads next to searches including «black people ruin neighborhoods.»

This was true even when people of color earned the same amount of money as white loan applicants, wanted to take on the same size loan or buy in the same neighborhood.

Make your bedroom as dark as possible, turn the face of the alarm clock away from you and use a white noise machine or fan if you live in a loud neighborhood.

Collectively, financial institutions put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers there between 2012 and 2016, even as they denied nearly twice as many home loans to African Americans as they made in the neighborhood.

What do Christians from non-white neighborhoods inherit as a mere extension of their religious identities that white, non-Christian people do not?

That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the racial politics of abortion and the influence eugenics plays in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods.

By greeting us as she did, in the midst of a white neighborhood and a racially charged era, Sara was generous when nobody forced her to be, and trusting when there was no reason to be.

The issue of race remains contentious in our nation and in our neighborhoods, and many white evangelicals remain confused as to how they should respond.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

Inspired by family gatherings, neighborhood barbecues, and the beloved recipes passed down by Buddy's mother, grandmother and aunts, the restaurant features signature dishes such as My Dad's Bucatini Carbonara with pancetta, cracked black pepper and egg; Lisa V's Linguine & White Clam Sauce with white wine, garlic and extra virgin olive oil; Bone - In Veal Parm Chop oven - baked with provolone and mozzarella and served alongside spaghetti marinara; Valastro Sunday Gravy with meatballs, sausage, lamb, pork and a bowl of rigatoni; Steak Pizzaiola with peperonata, grana padano and polenta, and Nona's Lasagna Al FWhite Clam Sauce with white wine, garlic and extra virgin olive oil; Bone - In Veal Parm Chop oven - baked with provolone and mozzarella and served alongside spaghetti marinara; Valastro Sunday Gravy with meatballs, sausage, lamb, pork and a bowl of rigatoni; Steak Pizzaiola with peperonata, grana padano and polenta, and Nona's Lasagna Al Fwhite wine, garlic and extra virgin olive oil; Bone - In Veal Parm Chop oven - baked with provolone and mozzarella and served alongside spaghetti marinara; Valastro Sunday Gravy with meatballs, sausage, lamb, pork and a bowl of rigatoni; Steak Pizzaiola with peperonata, grana padano and polenta, and Nona's Lasagna Al Forno.

Based in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, N.Y., Sabra was founded in 1986 as Sabra — Blue & White Foods.

Nestled in Chinatown — one of Washington, DC's most vibrant neighborhoods — the Fairfield Inn and Suites is also conveniently close to museums, national landmarks and attractions such as: The White House, Smithsonian Institution, the National Mall, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

One only has to stake out the Damen «L» stop on any given weekday morning to see just how cross-pollinated the neighborhood has become; Gypsies, art - students, white - and blue - collar employees of all races stand shoulder to shoulder during the rush hours, submitting themselves to a sort of random casting call, linked only by their roles as commuters... and as neighbors.

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.

The election is the final part of the process that was done to replace the late Thomas White, who died last August, eight months into his second term as representative for the district that covers the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale and South Ozone Park.

He's flipped the debate upside down, depicting the old - timers as open to progress and casting as the enemy the white, gentrifying, brownstone - owning, white - collar, semi-recent arrivals to the neighborhood.

Wearing a blue rain jacket and a Navy hat with a ponytail poking out the back, Perez Williams toured the South Side that morning, knocking on doors, parked cars and even flagging down pedestrians as she drove from one neighborhood to the next in a white Chevy Malibu.

With its dense population and abundance of roofs and blacktop, the Lower East Side has been identified as the hottest neighborhood in Manhattan, said White Roof Project executive director Heather James.

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

Growing up in Chicago, he had held his own as a Cubs fan in a White Sox neighborhood, so he didn't shy from conflict.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

Dr. Brookfield and her colleagues studied Florida women with invasive cervical cancer and found that white or Hispanic women lived longer than African - Americans (who tended to be diagnosed later than other women), as did those with health insurance or who lived in wealthier neighborhoods.

So --- as I say --- unless the white fellow purposely hangs out in a dark neighborhood and shows regard; its all hit - or - miss.

- The opening of the film is partially inspired by the opening of Halloween (1978), which Jordan Peele describes as a subversion of «the perfect white neighborhood.»

With a production budget in the neighborhood of $ 150 million and a worldwide pull of just under $ 50 million entering its second weekend, it's probably fair to say that White House Down will ultimately be seen by the powers that be as a bust.

«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 third and lightest episode, The Owners of Dixie, follows a small white dog as it changes owners within a poor neighborhood.

During the same period, the authors interviewed 14 of 17 white men who had also been 1st graders in the original sample and came from similar neighborhood and family backgrounds as the black men.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

But, like its West Coast counterpart, the William Monroe Trotter School, in Beantown's poor Roxbury section, was built as «a showcase for new methods of teaching» — enough of a showcase, it was hoped, to attract white children to a black neighborhood for their schooling.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

The study found that the few neighborhood where poor black boys did about as well as poor white boys were

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

37 Thanks in part to multiple court orders and strong federal enforcement, school districts began to implement racial integration policies.38 From the 1960s through the 1980s, there was a general growth in school district integration as an increasing number of states and districts heeded Brown's mandate and created bussing policies and magnet schools that joined black and white students across neighborhood boundaries.

In my neighborhood, charter schools marketed themselves to white, middle class families as a way to send their kids to school without «those kids».

My family had chosen our neighborhood because of the academic record of its public schools and, as a result, I attended schools that were 92 percent or more white and only about 2 percent black.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

As a white kid from the country, I quickly learned that my corduroy pants and cowboy boots were not going to cut it in hallways where many kids wore parachute pants and Air Jordans popular in my inner - city neighborhood.

As a black kid navigating New Orleans's overwhelmingly white private schools, I spent most of my adolescence in their neighborhoods and at their homes.

We want the choice of world class, sustainable neighborhood schools to anchor our communities, just as white brothers and sisters enjoy.

One white woman noted her comfort in any neighborhood in her city, as compared to her mother's panic when even driving through predominately non-white areas.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.