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The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or states in those specific years). [citation needed]
Last week, the United States hit one million “excess deaths” since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholars and demographers […] The post Black Americans comprise highest percentage of 1 ...
Even in a year with an overwhelming number of excess deaths, the mortality rate of Black Americans stands out.Nearly 200,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 this year, and data has shown ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2025.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
The first university Black studies department in the United States was created at San Francisco State University, following the Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968. [ 100 ] In 1994, California's African American students made up about seven percent of higher education, compared to nine percent in the country.
Within the US, Louisiana has the fifth largest overall African American population. Louisiana has the second largest percentage of African Americans in the country, only behind Mississippi. [5] As of the 2020 US census, Black Louisianians of African heritage were 32.8% of the state's population. [6]
White alone 72.41% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) White alone, not Hispanic or Latino 63.75% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Black or African American alone 12.61% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) American Indian and Alaska Native alone 0.95% (percent in the race/percent in the age group)
African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska, are central to the development and growth of the 43rd largest city in the United States.While population statistics show almost constantly increasing percentages of Black people living in the city since it was founded in 1854, [1] Black people in Omaha have not been represented equitably in the city's political, social, cultural, economic or educational ...