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Public officials and institutions are framing racism in the U.S. as a growing or at least persistent crisis: both the House and Senate resolutions declare that racism “meets the criteria of a public h...
There is no single government line item that records “how much government money Black people get”; instead federal programs and targeted investments distribute funds by program and by demographic wher...
The best available analyses show that , but the pattern is uneven across cities and the causes remain contested. Multiple interacting drivers — pandemic-era social and economic disruption, changes in ...
Other public figures and community members have long recounted childhood memories or local legends of that were later scrutinized, contextualized, or revised by historians and archivists—scholarly re-...
Abortion is a common, medically safe health intervention when provided using WHO‑recommended methods and trained personnel; WHO reports six of 10 unintended pregnancies end in induced abortion and str...
Neighborhood segregation links to lower economic mobility for children of single Black parents through concentrated poverty, poorer schools, limited local labor markets, and weaker wealth-building mec...
Racial disparities in U.S. violent-crime statistics are well-documented: multiple compilations of federal data show Black Americans experiencing much higher violent‑victimization and homicide rates th...