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58 years after Brown, Metro and other schools still racially divided - Nashville Tennessean
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In a city where African-Americans make up less than 25 percent of the overall ... At Nashville’s Whites Creek High School, the number of African-American students in 2011 totaled 884, or 82.6 percent of the student body. Only 15.1 percent ...
 
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Historic landmark: Whites lose majority in new U.S. births - Waterbury Republican-American
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saw sharp drop-offs in black population growth as the prolonged housing bust kept African-Americans locked in place in traditional big cities. Metro areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco had reduced declines or gains.
 
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Museum and gallery events - Philadelphia Daily News
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African American Heritage Museum 661 Jackson Rd., Newtonville; 609-704-5495. www.aahmsnj.org. Tue.-Fri. 10 am-3 pm. Barnes Foundation 300 North Latchs La., Merion Station; 610-667-0290. www.barnesfoundation.org. $15 (reservations required), free ...
 
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Census shows that racial, ethnic minorities comprise more than half of U.S. population - New Haven Register
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saw sharp drop-offs in black population growth as the prolonged housing bust kept African-Americans locked in place in traditional big cities. Metro areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco had reduced declines or gains.
 
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The white minority - Rutland Herald
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Despite increases in the number of African-American, Asian and Hispanic residents ... To submerge oneself in American culture is to experience music of African-Americans and Latin Americans. Theater, film, television, art — all bubble with ...
 
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Same-sex marriage: Who says it’s a right? - Philadelphia Daily News
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A few days ago, I read a thread on Facebook where an African-American questioned the legitimacy of comparing so-called “marriage equality” to the struggles of blacks during Jim Crow. He expressed what many of us, not just those in the black ...
 
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Son Fulfills Dream Racism Denied To His Mother - Vermont Public Radio
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"However, in the example of Mrs. Walls, she went to Lincoln High School. And that right there would have been the giveaway because Lincoln High School was the African-American school." She says the last letter suggests that the presidents all meet in a ...
 
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'Born in Kenya': Obama's Literary Agent Misidentified His Birthplace in 1991 - ABC News
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Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked ...
 
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Texas primary preview - DAILY KOS
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It's a patchwork of a bunch of areas that DFW-area Republicans certainly didn't want in their districts -- the heavily African-American east side of Fort Worth and the mostly Hispanic west side of Dallas -- that, as a whole, went 69% for Obama.
 
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White robber wears African-American 'Hollywood' mask to hold up bank - Daily Telegraph
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Police in Springdale, Ohio released CCTV footage from the banks, appealing for public help in finding what they believed was an African-American male. But after a tip-off, officers found Zdzierak staying at a nearby hotel. Lieutenant Michael Mathis from ...
 
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