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black section

British  

noun

  1. (in Britain) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represents the interests of local Black people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To install the filters, you simply remove the magnetically attached caps of the two air valves and slot in a filter with the black section facing the mask.

From The Verge Oct. 21, 2021

A predominantly black section of southwest Georgia, for example, has suffered a higher death rate than even the hardest-hit New York City boroughs.

From Washington Post May 27, 2020

On the dusty and uphill path to the store, Jimmie and his siblings and half-siblings would walk from their black section through the Latino section before getting to where the whites lived.

From Golf Digest Oct. 15, 2018

Once we entered North Baton Rouge, the historically black section of the city, the road immediately became bumpier.

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2016

The black community wanted the public housing units built in a different location, and virtually anywhere outside of the already overwhelmingly black section of Durham would have pleased them.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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