Americans and affirmative action: How the public sees the consideration of race in college admissions, hiring
Here’s a closer look at what recent surveys have found about Americans’ views of affirmative action.
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Here’s a closer look at what recent surveys have found about Americans’ views of affirmative action.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.
Around two-thirds of Black Democrats (66%) say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth.
Nearly two-thirds of the federal judges President Joe Biden has appointed so far are women, and the same share are members of racial or ethnic minority groups.
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
Around four-in-ten Black adults in the United States (39%) say Black Lives Matter has done the most to help Black people in recent years.
With Election Day approaching, here’s a closer look at voter attitudes on violent crime and an analysis of the nation’s violent crime rate.
Only 70 of the 3,843 people who have ever served as federal judges as of Feb. 1, 2022, have been Black women.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
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