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While most Hispanics in New York City do not select a race in addition to their ethnicity in the American Community Survey, among those foreign-born, 33% also self-identify as white, and 9% as black. [82] According to the 2006-2007 Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latino Studies: [83] Puerto Rican: (1,278,628) Dominican: (602,093)
There is a long history of civil unrest in New York City related to race and policing preceding the coalescing of Black Lives Matter, and the New York Police Department has been the subject of frequent criticism for its treatment of black citizens, including use of racial profiling, its stop-and-frisk program, and the use of mass arrests and ...
Within New York City, these issues are present or intensified. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the long-standing systemic racism present throughout New York City's healthcare system, especially in terms of access to critical healthcare resources in underserviced, and often predominantly Black communities. [45]
The vaccine numbers are incomplete because about 40% of people who have been vaccinated in the city haven't provided demographic information. Racial disparities seen in New York City vaccination rates
New York lawmakers and civil rights activists who attended Hochul's signing ceremony at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan hailed it as a key step toward confronting the state's legacy ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday that establishes a commission to study racial justice and reparations. “This commission acknowledges the horrific injustice of slavery and ...
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice ...
New York City has seen a cycle of modest boom and a bust in the 1980s, a major boom in the 1990s, and mixed prospects since then. This period has seen severe racial tension, a dramatic spike and fall of crime rates, and a major influx of immigrants growing the city's population past the eight million mark.