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The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. [1] The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
Groton, Massachusetts, a town that was 90 percent White in 2020, was once a "Ku Klux Klan stronghold, rife with anti-Catholic and nativist prejudice", according to The Boston Globe. [100] That year, a board in Groton voted to reject "wholeheartedly the designation" of the town still being a sundown town at present. [100]
Paul Parks (1923–2009), the first African-American Secretary of Education for the state of Massachusetts; also a civil rights activist, and president of the Boston NAACP; Deval Patrick (born 1956), 71st governor of Massachusetts (was educated in Boston, worked in Boston) M. Lee Pelton (b. 1950), president of Emerson College
This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.
Kim Janey made history this month — becoming the first woman and first Black mayor of Boston since the city was incorporated in 1822. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in ...
The riots in Newark spread across the United States in most major cities and over 100 deaths were reported. Many inner city neighborhoods in these cities were destroyed. The April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee and the June assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles also led to nationwide rioting with ...
When it comes to the most rodent-infested cities in the United States, it's certainly not a rat race to take the top spot. However, a new list says one Massachusetts city ranks high among the ...
In Minneapolis–Saint Paul alone, the immediate aftermath of Floyd's murder was the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Over a three night period, the cities experienced two deaths, [ 39 ] [ 40 ] 617 arrests, [ 8 ] [ 38 ] and upwards of $500 million in ...