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Together they took control of the black-run numbers racket and profited well for many years, investing in restaurants and nightclubs.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Together they took control of the black-run numbers racket and profited well for many years, investing in restaurants and nightclubs.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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For goods purchases, for instance, agencies were expected to award 5% of dollars to Asian-run companies, 7.5% to black-run firms, 5% to Hispanics and 18% to women.
Minorities Plan Failing Jacob Gershman 2011
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City officials say black-run businesses have secured a larger and increasing share of sub-contract dollars.
Minorities Plan Failing Jacob Gershman 2011
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Over time, many blacks left Cuban-run Miami, with black-run Atlanta being a favorite destination. shecky says:
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Together they took control of the black-run numbers racket and profited well for many years, investing in restaurants and nightclubs.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Together they took control of the black-run numbers racket and profited well for many years, investing in restaurants and nightclubs.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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"Many Black Americans are tired of the political system taking them for granted," says Timothy Johnson, chairperson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a black-run organization that promotes the political involvement and election of blacks nationwide.
Richard M. Benjamin: GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul" 2010
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"Many Black Americans are tired of the political system taking them for granted," says Timothy Johnson, chairperson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a black-run organization that promotes the political involvement and election of blacks nationwide.
Richard M. Benjamin: GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul" Richard M. Benjamin 2010
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Events over the last 140 years — from the corruption and deterioration of black-run cities such as Detroit and Newark, to the hell-hole that Liberia has been, to the rate of blacks failing out of high school and filling prisons — would seem to support 19th century doubts about black capabilities.
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