There is one part of the American scene in which the black presence over the last decade has become dramatically less separate and more equal.

Many of the assistants complain that they are brought in simply to recruit and to add a black presence.

That was encouraging, but could this black presence be trusted to play tonight before important people?

He also chided the news media for the lack of a black presence on their staffs.

But there was not an overwhelming black presence in the city.

The growing black presence outside the South was still more significant.

It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance.

It is not the first time there has been a black presence in modern rock.

It had begun to chip away at the common sense attribution of 'race' problems simply to a black presence.

And a black presence hung in the web, scarcely an arm's length away.