Sentence examples for once black from inspiring English sources

By Kelefa Sanneh Once, black home buyers were thought to threaten the character of a neighborhood.

"Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J., 1967," still dress alike, but their once black hair is permed and tinted strawberry blond.

Kashua, who is forty, with thick, once black hair and a brooding gaze, slouched a little behind the lectern.

The choreographer for "Rocky" is Kelly Devine, while the fight choreography is by Steven Hoggett ("Once," "Black Watch").

But, said West, "that's what we are going to get – once black people find out who Brother Sanders is".

His big lists help, since they encourage double exposures, poems that hold multiple stories at once: black and white, urban and rural, outdoor and indoor.

Hurricanes, for example, were once black-swan events.

It's hard to even remember that version, though, because, once "Black-ish" settled in, it began, like so many smart sitcoms, a quiet reinvention.

The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance).

Questions that were once black-and-white now appear prismatic.

This process would stop once blacks had the same number of seats as whites; the declared goal was not majority rule, but rather "parity between the races".