His state legislature seat was in a majority-black district. From Wordnik.com. ["I don’t know whether it was an attempt to diminish what I had done in '88, or to say Barack is all style and no substance."] Reference
He represents a majority-black district and supports CBC policies. From Wordnik.com. ["That baby just told me he loved Barack Obama!"] Reference
I lived for a few years in a majority-black neighborhood in Baltimore. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries] Reference
She has lived in the same majority-black precinct for the past six years. From Wordnik.com. [Racial Discrimination in Florida: Election 2000] Reference
Why can't he claim credit for the new facilities in majority-black parts of town?. From Wordnik.com. [Kojo asks: Do D.C. city voters prefer style to substance?] Reference
Find one or two African Americans for top Cabinet positions in a majority-black city?. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 26, 2010] Reference
"We could afford Prince George's," Dan Baker says of their move to the majority-black county. From Wordnik.com. [Aspiring opera singer finds racial harmony at Suitland High] Reference
Those attacked could be the victims of circumstance: Flint is a majority-black city, he noted. From Wordnik.com. [Hunt for Serial Killer Intensifies as Attacks Rise] Reference
I grew up in a southern city with a majority-black population and a high rate of violent crime. From Wordnik.com. [Dicks: "This immoral self expression goes beyond freedom of expression."] Reference
Her tenacious pursuit of a plan to create two new majority-black congressional districts paid off. From Wordnik.com. [Housebroken] Reference
Gray, in contrast, captured 108 majority-black census tracts and just five that are majority-white. From Wordnik.com. [How D.C. Mayor Fenty lost the black vote - and his job] Reference
Herenton based his candidacy on race, saying the majority-black district needed a black representative. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Haslam wins GOP nomination for governor in Tennessee] Reference
It's often noted that the vast majority of black members of Congress are elected from majority-black districts. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Black Politics] Reference
They have also been groomed in majority-black districts where they have seldom needed to appeal across racial lines. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Black Politics] Reference
The company he'd founded with Aaron Rand thirty years ago was the most successful majority-black law firm west of Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [The Hearing]
For example, as a white child attending majority-black schools in Columbus, Ohio, I felt most accepted when I "hung" black. From Wordnik.com. [A Chokehold On America] Reference
Gray appeared to have beaten Fenty in the city's majority-black wards, rolling up massive margins east of the Anacostia River. From Wordnik.com. [Gray defeats Fenty as voters choose conciliatory approach over brash tactics] Reference
Just 39 at the time, she was not in the top tier of the department's brass, and she was a white woman in a majority-black city. From Wordnik.com. [Lanier expected to stay on as D.C. police chief, sources say] Reference
And yet in this majority-black city, where both candidates are men of color, voters seem to be split according to race or class. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. Mayor's Race A Matter Of Style] Reference
The money that would go into building a border fence could just as easily be re-directed to developing majority-black communities. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ruffini: The Right Must Abandon Gimmicks and Addiction to the Past, Embrace Newt Gingrich…] Reference
Volunteer State Hate Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee is a rarity in Congress: a white lawmaker representing a majority-black district. From Wordnik.com. [We Shall Be Overcome] Reference
If he faces Akin, it will likely be in a GOP-leaning district, and if he faces Clay, it would likely be in a majority-black district. From Wordnik.com. [Who's on offense in the House?] Reference
Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department has pressed states to draw district lines so as to create majority-black districts. From Wordnik.com. [The Outsider] Reference
America closely reflect the country's majority-black racial makeup, while missions in Africa are still exclusively white, the report said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Irene has lived for 67 years through the worst of apartheid and now awaits the (as yet mostly-undelivered) promises of majority-black rule. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To Cape Town] Reference
The parents wanted their kids in schools with a more diverse racial mix, Ms. James says, rather than the majority-black schools in her district. From Wordnik.com. [The End of White Flight] Reference
Gray drew on that disenchantment in Ward 5, a majority-black community known for its working-class neighborhoods and home to Catholic and Gallaudet universities. From Wordnik.com. [Vincent Gray listening tour starts with Ward 5 residents] Reference
Ironically, this sense of isolation gave Bradley something else in common with African-Americans: as a white on a majority-black team, Bradley felt like a minority. From Wordnik.com. [Sports, Race And Politics] Reference
Prince George's became the largest, most affluent majority-black county in the country, and developers started building high-end housing to cater to the new population. From Wordnik.com. [Mixing It Up In The Burbs] Reference
I responded: What do you think the response of white Americans would have been if Barack Obama had put together a majority-black Cabinet immediately after taking office?. From Wordnik.com. [For D.C., Vince Gray's election is a bold step backward] Reference
By opposing the move, Gray essentially sided with black parents who accused Rhee of trying to make the majority-black Georgetown school more palatable for white families. From Wordnik.com. [2 D.C. Council members to push Gray and Rhee to compromise on contract extension] Reference
And in the majority-black 9th district, former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is challenging Rep. Steve Cohen in a Democratic primary where race has become a defining issue. From Wordnik.com. [The return of social issues] Reference
Mr. Byrd chaired the Senate appropriations subcommittee on the District from 1961 to 1969 and took it upon himself to rid the majority-black city of ineligible welfare recipients. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92; West Virginia lawmaker was the longest serving member of Congress in history] Reference
Landrieu, 49, became the majority-black city's first white mayor since 1979, the year his father Moon left the office. From Wordnik.com. [EURweb] Reference
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