chocolate city

plural chocolate cities

1. USinformalA city with a predominantly African American population.

   I’ve lived in Los Angeles metro area since 1984. I’m from the Midwest, from a “chocolate city” at the time I grew up. I am a Black woman.

   2022, LA Times, Letters to the Editor

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   There's a lot of chocolate cities around / We got Newark, we got Gary / Someone told me we got L.A. / And we're working on Atlanta / But you're the capital C.C.

   1975, “Chocolate City”, in Chocolate City, performed by George Clinton of the band Parliament

   "This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way; it wouldn't be New Orleans." … It's part of our culture to talk about chocolate cities.

   2006 January 20, Ray Nagin, Chocolate City speech

   When long-time residents from these areas leave or are forced out economically, what do they take with them? Can the culture of a chocolate city — its heritage and its heart — remain when its black residents have moved on?

   2018 April 11, “Art and Soul: Conserving the Culture of Chocolate Cities”, in American University Radio

2. A city known for or associated with chocolate production.

   Bruges is a chocolate city par excellence. The city has more than 50 passionate chocolatiers.

   2013 August 9, “A Visit to Bruges (Belgium) - Part I”, in The Kitchen Lioness

1. USinformalWashington; D.C.; Washington; D.C.Nickname for Washington, D.C.: the capital of the United States.
2. USinformalA nickname for a city with a predominantly African American population.