Columbus is magazine’s No. 9 best city for blacks

The Columbus Dispatch wrote Columbus is magazine’s No. 9 best city for blacks

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

By Sherri Williams and Tracy Turner

Columbus remains one of the nation’s top cities for blacks to live in, beating out traditional Southern magnets Memphis, Tenn., and Birmingham, Ala., which dropped off the list while neighbor Indianapolis made its debut.

Black Enterprise magazine, a New York-based business publication with 3.9 million readers, names Columbus as the No. 9 city for blacks to “live, work and play” in its May issue. Washington, D.C., is No. 1.

Columbus made its debut on the list at the same rank in 2004. Black Entertainment Television named Columbus the No. 1 city for black families in 2002.

Though Columbus is losing younger people, blacks have migrated to Columbus and boosted Ohio’s population. The state had the 10th-highest increase in the number of blacks in large cities from 2000 to 2005, according to the U.S. Census.

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