Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2026

America Is Getting Older and More Demographically Diverse

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  Many posts have discussed  demographic trends , especially the  decline of births  and the  aging of the population . Pew:
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Erasing Black History

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Racial Inequality, Educational Inequality, and Prison

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  Many   posts   have  discussed   economi c and  educationa l   inequality . The  effects  of  inequality  reach many  corners  of American...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Perceptions of Group Size

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 Jonathan V. Last: Yesterday Jemele Hill recirculated a study YouGov did in 2022 about the gaps between people’s perceptions and reality. ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Juneteenth and the Army

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From the US Army: ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Juneteent h is known as America’s “second” Independence Day because it commemorates the en...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Homelessness 2023

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A number  of  posts  have dealt with  homelessness .   HUD Annual Homelessness Assessment Report: On a single night in 2023, roughly 653,100...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Black Americans' Opinions of Affirmative Action

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Many   posts  have  discussed   affirmative action . The Supreme Court recently ruled against race-based college admissions. Aaron Blake at ...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

American Dream

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Daniel A. Cox and Ruy Teixeira at the Survey Center on American Lif e:  Public attitudes about the American dream are somewhat more positiv...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Views of BLM 2023

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 From Pew : Ten years after the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag first appeared on Twitter , about half of U.S. adults (51%) say they support the ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Ethnicity and Married Birth Parents

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 Data Tools 6. The Geography of Traditional Families in America Charles Murray American Enterprise Institute April 2023 The ethnic differenc...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Tennessee

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Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization  and  aversive  or  negative partisanship . Jonathan Allen at Reuters: In a rare rebuke,...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Diverse Congress

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Katherine Schaeffer at Pew : A quarter of voting members of the U.S. Congress identify their race or ethnicity as something other than non-...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Black Mayors

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Brakkton Booker at Politico: When Karen Bass is sworn in as Los Angeles mayor next month, she’ll be making history in more ways than one. N...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Racial and Ethnic Coalitions in Major Cities

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Thomas B. Edsall at NYT: Democrats in cities across America are having trouble holding their coalitions together. In Los Angeles , the batt...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Racial Tension in Los Angeles

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Racist comments by progressive Hispanic members of the city council have roiled Los Angeles. Efrén Pérez, Alisson Ramos, Crystal Robertson...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Black Identity

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 Kiana Cox and Christine Tamir at Pew : No matter where they are from, who they are, their economic circumstances or educational backgrounds...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Systemic Racism

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 At National Affairs , Peter Schuck identifies four reasons to question the notion of systemic racism: The best that the skeptic of this acc...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Estimating the Size of Groups

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Taylor Orth at YouGov: When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely get it right . In two recent YouGov pol...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Declining Trust in Scientists

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From Pew: Americans’ confidence in groups and institutions has turned downward compared with just a year ago. Trust in scientists and medic...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

The Tragedy of the Projects

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Many posts  have  discussed  the  unanticipated   consequences  of  public policy .  Howard Husock at Reason : The clearance of the thriving...