In many cities, the term has been used to describe African American neighborhoods.

By the mid-1970s the community was changing into an African American neighborhood.

City maps displayed here, for instance, clearly indentify white and African neighborhoods.

They gradually turned to operate grocery stores in mainly African American neighborhoods.

Watts is the fifth of six children and grew up in a poor rural African American neighborhood.

Jazz came to the city's African American neighborhoods after 1925.

As the circle slipped into history, so did the identity of the predominantly African American neighborhood.

Over the past years, however, it has transformed into a predominantly African American neighborhood.

For many decades it was the only African American neighborhood in the city.

Brown won 90% or more in African American neighborhoods.