The African-American population in the region has also grown, but more modestly, about 6 percent.

He had enjoyed some success, but nothing approaching his goal of making it home to the city's growing African-American population.

The county had a significant African-American population, although this has since dwindled to almost nothing.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the African-American population of the school increased.

It is not at all clear that the African-American population as a whole has made economic progress over the last several decades.

The African-American population is concentrated in the southern states and urban areas.

Few people live in this neighborhood now, though at one time the area had a substantial African-American population.

He lived in a state that, then as now, had a minuscule African-American population.

"The African-American population in this city is already being decimated."

It was also home to a significant African-American population.