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In many areas, the Biden administration has delivered more for Black Americans than the Trump administration did. When the peak pandemic period (April 2020 to October 2021) is excluded, Black ...
A new report lays out a multitude of ways in which the conservative Project 2025 plan could negatively impact Black Americans. In the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Thurgood Marshall Institute’s ...
Take a look at some rulings in cases that stunned the Black community. This year, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered […] The post The U.S. Supreme Court made some shocking decisions that impacted ...
Although Washington was home to abolitionist papers prior to the American Civil War (1861-1865), the first known newspaper published by and for African Americans in the District of Columbia was the New Era, which Frederick Douglass launched in 1870. Notable newspapers in Washington today include the Washington Afro-American and Washington Informer.
During the past two decades, there have been 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans relative to white Americans. That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according ...
The disproportionate impacts on Black Americans has been manifest by dramatically increased mortality rates compared to other racial groups. From data publicly available in April 2020, Black Americans averaged 6.3 deaths per 100,000 people, far greater than the 1.1 deaths per 100,000 for White Americans. [4]
African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the umbrella term [1] for English dialects spoken predominantly by Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [2] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to more standard forms of English. [3]
The Pew study notes that Black Americans have a unique relationship with both discrimination and claims of government conspiracy theories given the nation's legacy of slavery, Jim Crow era ...