As the battle to protect voting rights continues in the nation’s capital — sadly with little success — veteran politician and minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, has come under fire for a statement he made that implied Black Americans were not “full” Americans. Bruce Schreiner of The…
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More Americans Than Ever Unsatisfied With the Treatment of Asian Americans in the United States
Following months of increased hate crimes involving Asian Americans and increased anti-Asian sentiment on the whole towards the AAPI community, a new Gallup Poll reveals that dissatisfaction with the way Asian Americans are treated in the United States has reached an all-time high. Based on Gallup’s new data, Bianca Brutus…
Life Expectancy for Hispanic and Black Americans Declined Dramatically in 2020
A new federal report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed a stark disparity on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted life expectancies for white, Hispanic and Black Americans between 2019 and 2020. According to the CDC, the overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a…
More White Americans Believe the Government Hasn’t Done Enough for Blacks: Poll
According to the General Social Survey, a trends poll that has measured attitudes about race in America since the ’70s, 52 percent of Americans say the country spends too little to improve conditions for Black Americans, up from 30 percent in 2014. To be fair, 7 percent disagree. More and…