Most Black Americans Believe U.S. Institutions Were Designed To Hold Black People Back
Those who experienced racial discrimination are more likely to say these institutions intentionally or negligently harm Black people.
The data in this report are drawn from six online surveys of U.S. adults conducted between June 14 and July 21, 2021. Three of the samples were sourced from different probability-based online panels, one of which was Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP). The remaining three samples came from three different online opt-in sample […]
Since 2018, Pew Research Center’s primary U.S. public opinion source has been online surveys conducted on the nationally representative American Trends Panel. Previously, telephone surveys were the Center’s primary U.S. public opinion source. This transition from telephone to online surveys was necessary for a variety of reasons, including declining cooperation rates by telephone and increasing […]
Pew Research Center completed a series of individual in-depth interviews from May 15 to May 26, 2023. A total of 32 interviews were held to explore the views of adults who see addressing climate change as a lower priority for the United States and do not believe the Earth is getting warmer mainly because of […]