Cities with significant black populations that aren't recognized by national cognizant (live, state)
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Naw Id agree with 908 this is a factor of how one grows up and where. Somerville just got a few thousands black people in the late 1980s (mostly just recent arrival haitians) and started displacing them by the mid 200s. There is little to no black culture in Somerville, Massachusetts outside of a recording studio and dance hall for black people from Boston and Cambridge. Its like 4% black.
Certainly doesnt my make you less black though just a Different upbringing.
yup, thats pretty much when my parents entered this country and left. they pretty much learned english when i did in kindergarten so they would no concept of especially a lot of moo-vee or music references so a lot of that would not be passed down to me until college.
yup, thats pretty much when my parents entered this country and left. they pretty much learned english when i did in kindergarten so they would no concept of especially a lot of moo-vee or music references so a lot of that would not be passed down to me until college.
Yea i know Somerville. Would you say that is the norm there? Certainly, seems like it is. I didn't even meet a single black person from Somerville until I was 23. And she only lived there for a few years when her parents got divorced. She was originally from Mattapan and Cambridge (though she was ADOS and Afro-Cuban, not Haitian ).
Another place that comes to mind is Auburn, which is 25 miles west of Syracuse. Its school superintendent is a Black female(at the time): Welcome to my Website!
When the football team won the state championship in 2006, its entire backfield including the QB was Black: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUUlJq-a0A (on a side note, the Union-Endicott team they beat had Chandler Jones currently of the Arizona Cardinals)
It also was settled by an Army officer and 2 Black persons that were enslaved by him. It does have a correctional facility and isn't perfect, but its crime rate is low and it is also known for being interracial friendly likely due in part to some big black families there. There is an Underground Railroad history and has a free Black community that goes back to 1837, as stated on pages 13-14 here: Towns & Villages | Cayuga County, NY It is about 8-9% Black with about 29,000 people.
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Nationally everyone thinks West Virginia is 100% White. But while not Deep South diverse there is a significant Black population. Steve Harvey and Randy Moss among many others are both WV natives.
Nationally everyone thinks West Virginia is 100% White. But while not Deep South diverse there is a significant Black population. Steve Harvey and Randy Moss among many others are both WV natives.
Yes, as mentioned earlier in the thread, some of its cities such as Beckley, Bluefield, Charleston, Dunbar and Martinsburg have black percentages in the 13-25% range. There are also some tiny towns in McDowell County that are highly-predominantly black(Gary, Northfork, Maybeury, Keystone, Welch, etc.), as well as some others scattered across the state with decent percentages especially in the southern and Eastern Panhandle portions. I’m thinking of Institute, Rand, Malden, Montgomery, Boomer, Ranson, Charles Town, Mount Hope, White Sulphur Springs, Piedmont and so on. In terms of relative city population and higher percentages, Beckley(19.7% alone) and Bluefield(21.8% alone).
The state peaked at about 6%, but select counties like McDowell peaked at 25% during the peak of coal mining and there are 2 HBCU’s there(both are now majority white enrollment and the state had another one in the past). There are other cities with just enough black people to know they are there like Fairmont, Wheeling, Weirton, Keyser, Morgantown, Huntington, Williamson, Clarksburg, Princeton, Oak Hill, South Charleston, etc. Some of these cities during segregation had their own black schools until the mid/late 1960’s like Douglass HS in Huntington or Dunbar HS’s in Fairmont and Weirton. So, yes, there is more of a black history/population in that state than people may realize.
In terms of say high schools, Charleston’s Capital High is probably about a third black, with schools such as South Charleston HS, Martinsburg HS, Beckley’s Woodrow Wilson and Bluefield HS are all in the 20-25% black range, give or take.
When you hear of NYC, Detroit, Chicago, LA, or Miami, you could easily pinpoint the black identity the cities represent. While there are other cities with similar proportions of blacks, they don't have black representation. Which are some you can think of?
Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, black population is around 20% yet it often gets overlooked
Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, black population is around 20% yet it often gets overlooked
Yes, as mentioned a little earlier in the thread, North Las Vegas is one of only 2 western cities with at least 250,000 residents that is at least 20% black, with Oakland being the other one.
This is true. Hello I’m new and live in one of these black neighborhoods where we just so happen to be figuring out what to do with all the old buildings from the ship yards. It’s PERFECT if you know what you’re doing, where to look, and NEVER go at night!
I’m a minority, and I have blended in Portsmouth, VA. I am new at this, but have been looking into it for so long, as well as managed to see some amazing things.
~Be safe
There was another station, but its format recently changed and I believe parts of the area gets stations from Toronto/nearby parts of Ontario Canada.
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