Sentence examples for black poverty from inspiring English sources

The Huxtables didn't have much to say about black poverty, and some worried that their prominence somehow made black poverty easier to overlook.

On the stump, Gingrich has been promising to use his rhetorical gifts to combat black poverty.

Were they white slum tourists who had come to gawk at black poverty?

It shows the athletes shoeless; they wore only black socks to represent black poverty.

During Clinton's presidency (1993-2001), black poverty rates did fall to historic lows.

(Not coincidentally, it was the same era that began addressing the discrimination that entrenched black poverty as well).

Much of that is black poverty; the population divide between black and white is roughly 60-40.

The two Americans wore only black socks on their feet "to symbolize black poverty," they would say later.

And even if their motives were noble, did they inadvertently confirm what many here suspect: black poverty gets little notice until a white person experiences and highlights it?

He was horrified by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's 1994 book, "The Bell Curve," a social Darwinist tract arguing that black poverty was rooted in inferior intelligence.

Confronted with seemingly ineradicable white racism and persistent black poverty in the North, King concluded that nothing short of "radical moral surgery" was required to heal the country.