Despite the significant public attention on confrontations between black citizens and police in Missouri, Maryland and New York over the past year, blacks in 2015 express virtually the same opinions about being mistreated by police as they did in 2013. This year, 18% of adult blacks say there has been […] Read more »
Why Republicans Should Worry About Restrictive Voting Laws
When The Times released its joint poll with CBS on race last week, its most eye-catching finding was that a majority of Americans have a negative view of race relations, a sharp reversal of expectations following Barack Obama’s election in 2008. But deeper in the results was a telling data […] Read more »
A Dream Undone: Inside the 50-year campaign to roll back the Voting Rights Act
… What changed this state of affairs was the passage, 50 years ago this month, of the Voting Rights Act. Signed on Aug. 6, 1965, it was meant to correct “a clear and simple wrong,” as Lyndon Johnson said. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of […] Read more »
What do Americans feel about race relations?
Americans’ negative views on the state of race relations in the U.S. persist, with nearly 6 in 10 Americans saying they’re bad, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll released Thursday. Among those polled, blacks are more likely than whites to hold this view. CONT. CBS News Read more »
Poll Shows Most Americans Think Race Relations Are Bad
Seven years ago, in the gauzy afterglow of a stirring election night in Chicago, commentators dared ask whether the United States had finally begun to heal its divisions over race and atone for the original sin of slavery by electing its first black president. It has not. Not even close. […] Read more »
A Growing Divide on Race
Views about race relations and discrimination differ vastly between black and white Americans, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. CONT. New York Times Read more »