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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law...
The criminalization of black males has a long history in the US, which includes both legal and informal social laws that can lead to death or incarceration. Three sociohistorical threats to black male identities that speak to principles of race consciousness, primacy of racialization, and ordinariness of racism.
By gender, 72.6% were male; and 27.4% were female. By race, most arrestees (67.7%) were white; 27.1% were Black or African American; and 2.9% were of other races.
Young Black men in inner cities are disproportionately affected. They are both the primary victims and perpetrators of gun assaults and homicides.
From 1980 through 2008, 84 percent of white victims were killed by whites and 93 percent of black victims were killed by blacks. Let’s look at the numbers for the most recent years using the FBI...
Homicides were the leading cause of death for Black men ages 15 through 44 in 2020 and are running just behind accidents of all kinds (including drug overdoses, which the CDC lumps together with...
Black people, who account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 27 percent of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit...
