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  • proper noun Plural form of Black.

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Examples

  • If you folks, and Mr. Thompson, fail to note the murder and violent crimes rate among blacks upon blacks in New Orleans and from Blacks upon Whites -- Before the Federal Flood -- then you really have no place here worrying about them after the storm do you?

    Harry Shearer: New Orleans Faces "The Nation" 2009

  • He married a wife also, and when, in later years, the native blacks made a sudden descent on his homestead, they were repulsed by a swarm of white Blacks, assisted by an army of McTavishes, and chased over the hills with a degree of energy that caused them almost to look blue!

    The Settler and the Savage 1859

  • However, in Champaign blacks comprise only 15. 62%, and Hispanics only 4. 03% of the population according to the latest (2002) census, while Blacks comprise 26. 6% and Hispanics 27% of the population of New York according to the same census.

    OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2010

  • However, in Champaign blacks comprise only 15. 62%, and Hispanics only 4. 03% of the population according to the latest (2002) census, while Blacks comprise 26. 6% and Hispanics 27% of the population of New York according to the same census.

    OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2010

  • The study found significant differences in charitable giving between affluent blacks and non-blacks: The study found affluent Blacks as a group are very charitable.

    Booker Rising Shay Riley 2010

  • The rich and comfortobable, looking down of the poor blacks, encouraging police to shoot and kill my fellow Blacks, Comrades.

    IOL: News 2010

  • That everything is about blacks trying to throw off the oppression of Blacks through out the Bible.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • United for a Fair Economy's research on the racial wealth divide depicts a chronically skewed distribution of opportunity: poverty rates among blacks and Latinos is more than double that for whites, and even among the so-called middle class, economic stability is eroding faster for people of color: projects that in the coming months, unemployment rates for Blacks and Latinos will lurch well into the teens, but some states will be especially devastated.

    RaceWire 2009

  • US work force more educated, but blacks and Hispanics lag whites in higher-paying jobs US more educated, but racial disparities persistWASHINGTON - Blacks and Hispanics are lagging behind whites at the largest rates in roughly a decade when it comes to higher-paying jobs.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • US work force more educated, but blacks and Hispanics lag whites in higher-paying jobs US more educated, but racial disparities persistWASHINGTON - Blacks and Hispanics are lagging behind whites at the largest rates in roughly a decade when it comes to higher-paying jobs.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Hope Yen 2009

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