Our Chart of the Week looks at one of them: the higher incarceration rates of black men compared with those of white men. The above graphic from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog shows that black men in ...

News media made by and for the two largest racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States – Black Americans and Hispanic Americans – have been a consistent part of the American news landscape.

The first chart shows that as a Black mother’s income increases, the rate of infant mortality generally drops. The same is true in the second chart for white mothers, but at much lower rates ...

According to Bethesda Today, in early 2023 Daniel Engler was attempting to get new students into assigned seats in one of his ...

As this chart shows, a black man raised by two parents together in the 90th percentile — making around $140,000 a year — earns about the same in adulthood as a white man raised by a single ...

That understates the problem because a staggering number of prime-age black men are not—35% compared in 2014 with 17% of whites (see chart 1). Much of this difference is due to mass incarceration.