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Racial discrimination also results in impacts on the credit scores and economic security of communities of color—that ultimately, "entrenches and reinforces inequality by dictating a consumer's access to future opportunities". [110] Numerous studies have found racial disparities in credit scoring:
The series, which has been sponsored for over seven years by Pittsburgh law firms Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC and Reed Smith LLC, has included topics such as depression in African Americans, the racial views of teenagers, housing and workplace discrimination, the racial gap in education and how neighborhood culture affects racial inequality. [2]
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Yet, racial injustice has been baked into our education system since its genesis. We still can’t shake it. Nearly 51 million students are enrolled in America’s public schools , but the system ...
The racial disparities, the study’s authors write, are not random, but the result of structural inequalities, a consequence of factors like slavery and segregation, that “reinforce themselves ...
Native Americans are killed in police encounters at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. Native Americans are killed by police at 3 times the rate of White Americans and 2.6 times the rate of Black Americans, yet rarely do these deaths gain the national spotlight. The initial lack of media coverage and ...
The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
As the civil rights movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern U.S, a Republican Party electoral strategy—the Southern strategy—was enacted to increase political support among White voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.