In fact, as the journalists soon discovered, Jasper has a black mayor and a black school principal.
After finishing his elementary and high school years in Philadelphia, Wright attended Virginia Union College, a historically black school in Richmond.
He attended an all-black high school growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he still remembers what it was like to be a minority.
In September 2006, as the school year kicked off, a black Jena High School student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where the white students typically congregated.
Some 25% of men aged 25-54 with no college degree, 35% of high-school dropouts and almost 70% of black high-school dropouts are not working (see article).
Black women tend to stay in school longer than black men.
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If you were a fan of Slacker's old-school black and gold aesthetic, you can mourn its passing today.
The pictures had been taken the previous year, when the girls had entered middle school, the standard one-inch black-and-white photos for school registration.
Former slaves began forming the privately owned college, then the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, before the turn of the 20th century to offer a place for the children of black farmers to go to school.
For instance, commonly accepted numbers show that the turnout rate among black male high-school dropouts age 20 to 34 surged between 1980 and 2008, to the point where about one in three were voting in presidential races.
It seemed to express the idea that Dilley, who is white, prefers black players to represent the school.
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To others, Wattendorf's presidency is a symbol of something more high-minded about the school: Its black students were willing to look beyond race.
Betsy Stockard, a local councilwoman who was the first black politician to ask the school district to lighten up, changed her mind after seeing the video.
No thought, it seems, was given to whether this course of action helps or harms those black kids who are in school to learn and not act up.
One way to minimise the cost of shareholder activism, says Bernard Black, at Stanford Law School, would be for institutions to put their strength behind initiatives that affect hundreds of companies, not just pick on a few.
Even in that group of uniformed schoolchildren leaving German school, there are black faces.
There are reproductions of elementary-school notebooks decorated with black-and-white scenes from a bygone Thailand.
An old priest stood on the steps of the school, a threadbare black coat over his cassock.
Blue and red are the local school colors, and black is in honor of the slain bus driver.
"Kids are waiting longer and longer, in many cases until after school begins, to purchase back-to-school products, " Black says.
Among young black men without a high-school diploma, nearly half have no jobs.
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More than half of all black men without a high-school diploma go to prison at some time in their lives.
It was a disgrace, she said, that black males in the Baltimore public school system had a 75 percent dropout rate.
It centers on a moral crusade Sister Aloysius launches against Flynn who she suspects of taking an unhealthy interest in Donald Miller, his altar boy and the school's only black student.
Mareshia and her friends bucked 40 years of local customs this month by organizing their own integrated prom, a formal dance open to Wilcox County's white, black, Latino and Asian high school students.
Rouch meets with white colonial French high-school students and their black African classmates (all nonactors) as he persuades them to improvise a drama about efforts to bring the two mutually wary groups together socially.
High-school dropouts are disproportionately black or Hispanic.
Of those black men who do not graduate high school, nearly 60% spend time in prison.
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Euphemia Stewart Black . lately headteacher, Achaleven Primary School, Argyllshire (Oban, Argyll and Bute) - For services to Education.
" Across the street, a heart-shaped sign in the school colors of red and black had the message: "One Heartbeat.
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