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Racism first arose out of the white desire to exploit black people economically - and it is maintained today for much the same reasons. We cannot understand racism without looking back into history. Paul Gordon and Chris Brazier are our guides.
Mar 1, 1998 · Black progress over the past half-century has been impressive, conventional wisdom to the contrary notwithstanding. And yet the nation has many miles to go on the road to true racial equality.
May 3, 2023 · Judy Woodruff examines how that founding contradiction has evolved and what it means for our challenges today. It's part of her series, America at a Crossroads.
Nov 2, 2021 · More people globally see racial, ethnic discrimination as a serious problem in the U.S. than in their own society. By Laura Silver. Concerns about racial and ethnic discrimination are widespread in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed by Pew Research Center this spring.
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- Family wealth. In 2019, the latest data available, the average wealth of a white family was almost seven times more than a black family in the US. The black-white wealth gap was larger in 2019 than it was in 1983, when black family wealth data was first collected.
- Poverty. Although the wealth disparity remains significant, African Americans have become economically better off since the 1960s. According to the latest data, as of 2019 a smaller proportion live in poverty than ever before.
- Attending college. This is another area in which progress has been made since the 1960s. More African Americans had completed four years of higher education by 2019 than ever before - 26% compared with just 4% in 1962.
- Jobs. The African-American unemployment rate reached a record low of 5.5% in September last year - but it spiked sharply because of the huge impact of the coronavirus crisis on the US economy.
Aug 12, 2021 · Just 19% of Black adults say the country has made a lot of progress toward ensuring equality for all Americans regardless of racial or ethnic backgrounds over the last 50 years, compared with much larger shares of White (56%), Asian American (44%), and Hispanic adults (38%).
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Feb 9, 2024 · In a conversation with retired naval Commander Theodore Johnson, Judy Woodruff examines how that founding contradiction has evolved and what it means for our challenges today.
