Americans are divided on whether society overlooks racial discrimination or sees it where it doesn’t exist
53% of U.S. adults say people overlooking racial discrimination is a bigger problem than people seeing it where it really didn’t exist.
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53% of U.S. adults say people overlooking racial discrimination is a bigger problem than people seeing it where it really didn’t exist.
Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
55% of U.S. adults now express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, down from 67% in June.
236 members (45%) of the 116th Congress have mentioned “Black lives matter” on Facebook or Twitter dating back as far as Jan. 1, 2015.
Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going in the U.S. today.
The public is more likely to have heard “a lot” about ongoing confrontations between police and protesters than several other stories.
More than nine-in-ten Americans (93%) say high school grades should be at least a minor factor in admissions decisions.
A majority of teens say a welcoming, safe online environment is more important than people being able to speak their minds freely online.
U.S. adults who are affiliated with a religion are less likely than religiously unaffiliated adults to support broadly legal marijuana.
The tech landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade, both in the United States and around the world.
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