chocolate city

From chocolate +‎ city.

chocolate city (plural chocolate cities)

1. (US, informal) A city with a predominantly African American population.
   • 1975, “Chocolate City”, in Chocolate City, performed by George Clinton of the band Parliament:

     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.

   • 2006 January 20, Ray Nagin, Chocolate City speech‎^[1]‎^[2]:

     "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.

   • 2018 April 11, “Art and Soul: Conserving the Culture of Chocolate Cities”, in American University Radio‎^[3]:

     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?

   • 2022, LA Times‎^[4], Letters to the Editor:

     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.

2. A city known for or associated with chocolate production.
   • 2013 August 9, “A Visit to Bruges (Belgium) - Part I”, in The Kitchen Lioness‎^[5]:

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