Sentence examples for majority-black town from inspiring English sources

Other corporations jumped in with multimillion-dollar commitments to help rebuild the majority-black town that became a global symbol of racial and economic inequality.

The progressive advocacy group Rise Up Georgia, for instance, not only opted to block the park entrance but wanted to inform visitors that the park's board had permitted white supremacists to rally in the heart of a majority-black town.

That man's claim encompassed a number of neighboring majority-black towns, including the first certified quilombo in the state of Bahia, Rio das Rãs.

"We know that politics has to be played," said JoAnn Jasper-Thomas, the mayor of Hoffman, a majority black town in the Sandhills region.

Obama's comments came after a fourth night of confrontation in Ferguson, where residents of the majority black town of 21,000 people have been protesting against the killing of Brown by an officer from the overwhelmingly white police force.

The case has provoked outrage and months of protests — which occasionally turned violent — in Ferguson, a majority black town with a police force that is almost entirely white.

At the meeting, officials pledged to increase diversity in the local police force — which, as was widely reported during the protests, has only three black officers in a majority black town — and presented plans for a civilian oversight of law enforcement.

In recent years, this process has been accelerating: Majority white towns become majority black towns in the snap of a finger.

He does not believe the city is willing to seriously invest in schools in majority-black parts of town, so his daughter now treks to Hardy Middle School near Georgetown.

The surrounding park brings a diverse crowd to its hiking trails and family attractions like a petting zoo and a scenic train tour, and the neighboring town of Stone Mountain is now majority-black.

Atlanta is majority-black.