Sheriffs deputies in riot gear move in on protesters in Los Angeles, California.
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The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
A cyclist uses New York’s bike-share program.
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Low-income and minority groups are often reliant on cheaper modes of transport, but many find cycling to work problematic.
Footage captured the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s life.
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Research shows black men are less likely to exercise in white neighborhoods. Those who do jog report having police called and neighbors shun them.
When the shuttered economy reopens, how many black Americans will be left out in the cold?
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Black Americans were left especially vulnerable to the economic impact of COVID-19 and history shows it will take them longer to rebound.
Marijuana decriminalization won’t end arrests.
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Decriminalizing medical and recreational marijuana may exacerbate racial inequality within the criminal justice system, among other things.
U.S. public opinion is divided over who faces discrimination.
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Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex, and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019).
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Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
Black Americans were most affected by the 2009 recession.
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It’s been a decade since the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and blacks still haven’t fully recovered financially, leaving them unprepared if another recession hits.
During Super Bowl LIII, will Atlanta’s long struggle for racial equality be highlighted or glossed over?
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The country’s ‘Black Mecca’ is hosting the Super Bowl. With the NFL’s national anthem controversy still lingering, this creates an undeniable paradox.
In the 19th century, white families in the U.S. could easily acquire real estate. This was never the case for Black Americans.
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Old 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government which expelled Indigenous peoples from their land and gave it cheaply to white settlers continue to impact inequalities in the United States.
How much has really improved for black people in the U.S. since 1968?
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A minority politics scholar assesses black progress 52 years after MLK’s death based on poverty, jobs and wealth. ‘In some ways,’ she concludes, ‘we’ve barely budged as a people.’
Slave shackles in a display case at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C..
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In the 19th century, slaveholders advertised widely for runaway slaves and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. African-American communities offered sanctuary space to the runaways.
What do black Americans experience in the school system?
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What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here’s the story of Tyrone.
Woman with slave girl in the mid 19th century, New Orleans.
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More than 150 years of scholarship and activism hasn’t brought us any closer to consensus.