The Globalist

What connects Mexico’s Iguala, Ferguson and New York City?

Which of the United States’ major racial groups has the highest poverty rate?

Time for action: Black America’s sad balance sheet 50 years after major civil rights reform.

Since 2000, the wage gap between white and black Americans has increased dramatically.

Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites.

Incarceration of black Americans is over three times their 12.2% share of the U.S. population.

Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, how much progress have black Americans made?

The education gap between black and white students is still large.

In too many ways, African Americans aren’t much better off today than 50 years ago.

The wealth gap between whites and blacks has reached record levels.