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The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
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 ...
[4] [5] 54 percent of people wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in the United States are black. [6] Approximately 13.5% of death row inmates are of Hispanic or Latino descent. In 2019, individuals identified as Hispanic and Latino Americans accounted for 5.5% of homicides. [7]
Black people had the second-highest overdose death rate in 2020, with American Indian or Alaskan Natives having the highest rate of overdose deaths, at 41.4 deaths per 100,000. Black men were the ...
According to a recent study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, in 2020, Black Americans saw the sharpest increase in drug mortality rates, outpacing the rate among white Americans, for the first time ...
[50] [51] A 2018 study in the American Journal of Public Health found the mortality rate by police per 100,000 was 1.9 to 2.4 for black men, 0.8 to 1.2 for Hispanic men and 0.6 to 0.7 for white men. [52] The table below gives recent CDC statistics showing the proportions of fatal police shootings and all firearm deaths by race. [53]
Now his sister, Michelle Branch, was speeding toward his apartment in an impoverished, predominantly Black neighborhood in north St. Louis. In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans