This week, approximately nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas, in a wide variety of ways. Among Christians, the two groups who share the most in their approach to Christmas celebrations are white and minority evangelical Protestants. … But the grand-jury decisions in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York—where, in both […] Read more »
CNN / ORC Poll finds racial divide on police, justice system
There is a defined racial divide in America between how whites and non-whites view police and the criminal justice system, according to a CNN / ORC poll released Monday. More than half of white Americans – 57% – think none or almost none of the police in their area are […] Read more »
Blacks’ Approval of President Obama Remains High
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating among U.S. blacks has stayed consistently about 40 percentage points higher than his approval among all Americans since 2010. So far in 2014, blacks’ approval of Obama has averaged 84%, which is down from previous years but in line with the drop among the […] Read more »
McClatchy-Marist Poll: Don’t charge Ferguson police officer
Despite massive protests, Americans say by 2-1 that the federal government shouldn’t charge the white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. CONT. Anita Kumar, McClatchy Read more »
Black and White Differences in Views on Race
The outcry after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, decided not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men has refocused Americans’ attention on the continuing, contentious issue of race relations in the U.S. Gallup has measured black and white Americans’ attitudes about […] Read more »
Stark racial differences on views of the police
A new CBS News poll finds stark racial differences on views of the police and the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. While four in five whites say their local police make them feel mostly safe, that drops to 52 percent among blacks. Forty-three percent of African Americans say […] Read more »