THE BOOK: 4,000 Years of African American History – Get Your Copy
2022-09-14
Get Your Digital Copy of Our Next Big Project CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERSContinue Reading
African Americans No Longer the Face of COVID-19 Deaths?
2021-04-30
Early in the pandemic it was widely reported that African Americans were being severely affected by COVID-19 cases and deaths. In early April, 2020 several news outlets were reporting that 70% of COVID deaths in Louisiana were African American, as were 58% of COVID deaths in Illinois, 40% in Michigan,Continue Reading
Elizabeth City NC Black Demographics
2021-01-18
Households, Income, Poverty DATA CHART: African American Income from Truman to Trump (1948-2021) Continue reading Black Men, Black Women, Children, Education, Employment Black Women on Closing the Education Gap Continue reading Black Men, Black Owned Businesses, Black Women, Children, Cities, COVID19, Crime, Education, Employment, Health, History, Households, Income, Marriage, NewsContinue Reading
CHARTS: Are African Americans at Risk for the Coronavirus?
2020-03-19
With the revelation on March 17th that famous actor Eldris Elba tested positive for the Coronavirus or COVID-19, the circulating rumors that Black people cannot contract this alarming disease has hopefully been put to rest. There have also been (at the time of this article) a couple of deaths ofContinue Reading
Where in pre-colonial Africa are African Americans from (estimates)?
2016-08-31
Where in pre-colonial Africa are African Americans from? A) Senegambia-15% (coast between present day Senegal and Gambia) B) Sierra Leone/Winward Coast-16% (most of present day Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast) C) Gold Coast-13% (most of present day Ghana) D) Bight of Benin-5% (Togo, Benin, and southwestern Nigeria) E) Bight ofContinue Reading
New Orleans post-Katrina update highlights widening of Race & Class gap
2016-08-24
The San Francisco Bay View (National Black Newspaper) released its latest annual “Katrina Pain Index” which tractsĀ statistics to highlight how changes in post-Katrina New Orleans have affected the Black community there. Ā This years report is titled:Ā Katrina Pain Index 2016: Race and class gap widening. Some highlights include: “Some 2,000 BlackContinue Reading
Affluent African Americans more likely to live in Poor Neighborhoods
2016-08-22
A New York TimesĀ article was written in responseĀ to the recent unrest in Milwaukee. It attempts to shed a light on how a considerable amount of the BlackĀ upper middle classĀ live in poor neighborhoods. According to the article: “In many of Americaās largest metropolitan areas, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles,Continue Reading
Black teachers less likely to doubt educational prospects of black boys and girls
2016-05-21
A study by the statistics and research arm of the U.S. Education Department that “When a white (or other non-black) teacher and a black teacher evaluate the same black student, the study found, the white teacher is 30 percent less likely to believe that the student will graduate from aContinue Reading
Study: Drug Abuse Higher among Whites and Hispanics than African Americans
2016-05-21
The results of this study published by theĀ American Journal of Public Health seem to support other reports regarding race, ethnicity, and drug use. As with other studies it appears to contradict the higher arrest and incarceration rate of drug crimes disproportionately affecting the Black population. Ā “The study, which took placeContinue Reading