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Black Americans now number 36 million, 12.9% of the total population. [22] As of 2009, the median black male income was $23,738, compared to the median white non-Hispanic male income of $36,785. [16] While progress in wage inequality for blacks has been made since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts, inequality and discrimination still exist.
By 1490, more than 3,000 slaves a year were transported to Portugal and Spain from Africa [1] African Americans made up almost one-fifth of the United States population in 1790, but their percentage of the total U.S. population declined in almost every U.S. census until 1930. [5]
The Pew Research Center's analysis of 2009 government data says the median wealth of white households is 20 times that of Black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households. [16] In 2009 the typical Black household had $5,677 in wealth, the typical Hispanic had $6,325, and the typical white household had $113,149. [16]
Ten years later, 0.5% of black women and 0.5% of black men in the South were married to a white person. By contrast, in the western U.S., 1.6% of black women and 2.1% of black men had white spouses in the 1960 census; the comparable figures in the 1970 census were 1.6% of black women and 4.9% of black men.
A new survey of high schoolers in the class of 2023 showed a sizable gap between Latino, Black and male students who want to go to college compared to those who think they’ll go.
Of all the Black men I've seen on screen during the '90s, Shawn (Shawn Wayans) and Marlon (Marlon Wayans) felt the most real. They aren't polished, poised bachelors that keep a clean image 24/7 ...
While 65-year-old black men had a lower total life expectancy (11.4 years) and active life expectancy (10 years) than white men (total life expectancy, 12.6 years; active life expectancy, 11.2 years), those differences were reduced when controlling for education.
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