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Officials in at least 10 states have closed beaches or warned people not to swim in the water due to high bacteria levels ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.
Lincoln Heights (mostly burned down in September 2022 fire; parts of Weed have some Black residents but fewer compared to mid-20th century when most of the Black community worked on the railroads). Mono Lake and nearby Bishop, Mammoth Lakes and Round Valley developed large Black percentages near the NV state line.
Missouri Avenue Beach, also known as Chicken Bone Beach. Missouri Avenue Beach, often referred to as "Chicken Bone Beach," [1] is a lifeguarded beach on the Jersey Shore.It was an early and mid-twentieth-century Black resort destination and racially segregated section of the Atlantic Ocean beach near the Northside neighborhood of Atlantic City, New Jersey (between Missouri and Mississippi ...
Other poor areas are the cities across the Hudson River from New York City, including Newark, Paterson, and Passaic. [citation needed] In 2012, 9.1% of New Jersey households have annual incomes of or over $200,000, and 17.5% have incomes of $100,000 or more. By contrast, 5.3% have incomes of less than $10,000, and 24.9% less than $34,999. [1]
As the summer season gets underway, a new report finds that many coastal U.S. waterways, including popular beaches for swimming, are contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria.
The latest test results showed that bacteria counts fell back under New Jersey's safe swimming standards at beaches in Long Branch, Deal, Pine Beach, Seaside Heights, Barnegat Light and Lavallette ...
The Great Migration was the movement of more than one million African Americans out of rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1940. Most African Americans who participated in the migration moved to large industrial cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C ...
QUINCY – Nantasket Beach and other local areas have been closed to swimming as the summer's persistent rain continues to cause unsafe bacteria levels. Three of the closed beaches – Broady ...