The movement against police mistreatment of African Americans is broadening far beyond its core support in the Black community, with potentially landmark consequences both for the movement itself and the younger generations of Americans who have fueled this spring’s massive wave of protests. After years in which polls showed that […] Read more »
Widespread Desire for Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Large majorities of the public support the implementation of policies aimed at reducing police violence, but few back a reduction in the funding for law enforcement. Most Americans say the country’s criminal justice is in need of serious transformation, and police officers who kill or injure civilians are treated too […] Read more »
Poll Hub: Check the Trend
On the latest episode of Poll Hub, we discuss the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that it is illegal to terminate a person’s employment based on his or her sexual orientation. Public opinion has been moving in that direction for decades. We discuss the significance of the Court’s decision in light […] Read more »
When it comes to public opinion on race, it’s not 1968 anymore
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the nationwide demonstrations it triggered have crystallized the public’s changing attitudes on race in America in surprising ways. Accustomed as we are to deep political polarization, a compilation of polling on these questions shows the emergence of important areas of […] Read more »
This is a moment of reckoning on race for White Christians
Growing up in the South, Robert P. Jones attended Southern Baptist churches, Sunday schools, even a Southern Baptist college. But it was only in seminary, in his mid-20s, that Jones says he learned the full truth about Southern Baptists’ white supremacist roots. … “White Christian churches have not just been […] Read more »
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
The video rolls on a sunny suburban street, and a group of black children bike toward what looks to them like a parade — there’s a small crowd, and an American flag. Suddenly, they’re swarmed by a group of white children, who hurl racial epithets and rocks. Adults gathered nearby […] Read more »