1.  Basketball also mesmerized Spike Lee, a black city kid from Brooklyn, who went on to become a well-known filmmaker.

2.  A white mayor following a black mayor in a two-thirds black city is news.

3.  But the march was endorsed in this predominantly black city at the highest levels.

4.  Dougherty became a majority black city county about a decade before DeKalb, and it has an auspicious place in civil right history.

5.  For Bowser, a black mayor of a predominantly black city, the case was perhaps the thorniest political issue left behind by his predecessor, Cooper.

6.  He also said he planned to call on black city residents to take up arms and form militias to protect themselves from the police.

7.  Hattie Tennison, a black city councilwoman, said she is concerned because Young was questioned and arrested without an attorney.

8.  Henry Mathis, a black former city commissioner who was active in the Albany Movement as a child, said the city had at least four distinct classes.

9.  If there was one thing that being a white reporter in a mostly black city had taught him, it was what could be gained by not walking away.

10.  In fact, Oakland is now the only majority black city in the state.