I have been funding the neighborhoods your investing in since 2001.. over 2000 loans in those areas and I owned over 350 of these homes personally.my rent rolls were 99% African American females.. so I know what I speak of by experience.

I am an example of how African American is not synonymous with "urban"), I know how much of a boon this can be to hardworking families who are just not making enough to live in the suburbs (without assistance) and who are now being priced out of city centers as well. 

An African American man who is a lawyer is a member of a protected class.

And - the kicker - The article @TimButler posted focuses on neighborhoods that have very established and proud African-american communities that are seeing development and professionals for the first time. 

Universities have been maintaining by increasing graduate and international enrollement (the first group is pretty well tapped out, but the second shows huge potential with Asian and African students looking for opportunities).

We have a house that we are rehabbing and it has an African Killer Bee infestation in the attic.

The building itself is currently part of the Northwest African American Museum.

The area is almost elusively low-income African american.

But this is also a neighborhood rich in African-American history, having been the first neighborhood in Atlanta, where black people were allowed to own.

And lest anyone suspect that "working class" is a euphemism for a certain race, we had Mexicans, Hispanic Arizonans, African-Americans, an Ethiopian immigrant, whites, veterans, and lessees of both sexes.