Hot Topics: Race Relations: Black Americans

Pew Research Center, 2/22/18

New York Times, 2/1/16

Forbes, 1/15/18

New York Times, 3/19/18

NPR, 10/25/17

Washington Post, 2/26/18

Washington Post, 3/27/18

CQ Researcher report, 1/8/16

Teaching Tolerance, Issue 56, Summer 2017

Center for Media & Social Impact, American University

Washington Post, 4/19/2016

New Yorker, 3/14/2016

Report from the Economic Policy Institute, 2/26/18

Statistics and report from the U.S. Census Bureau, February 2018

Based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, October 2017

PBS series, website includes classroom resources

Largest network of African American male mentors in the nation

An online racial justice organization

Aims to build next generation human rights leaders to end anti-black racism and systemic violence

The NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization

Dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS

Works to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights

Works to spread awareness about gun violence and to support families who have lost a child to gun violence