One year after the death of George Floyd and the subsequent nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, America continues to struggle with resolving tensions between race and justice. Our new Axios-Ipsos Hard Truths polling uses robust samples of white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans to investigate attitudes towards the impacts of […] Read more »
Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year. Did It Last?
… Time and data allow us to examine the stability of Americans’ racial attitudes. One key question: Did George Floyd’s death catalyze support for Black Lives Matter? If so, for how long and for whom? Though there is, in the data, reason for some optimism, the more general picture contradicts […] Read more »
Axios-Ipsos Poll: No faith in equal justice
Solid majorities of Americans across all racial groups do not believe either the police or the criminal justice courts treat all people equally, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll. … The poll shows a resounding lack of confidence in the basic principle of equal justice under the law — a […] Read more »
George Floyd’s Death: One Year Later
Nearly a year after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, Americans remain more likely than they were before his death to say that police violence is a serious problem, but relatively few say attention in the past year to the issue has led […] Read more »
Heightened Racial Concern a Clear Legacy of Floyd’s Death
A year after George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, and the racial justice protests that followed, Americans continue to be more focused on race-related concerns than they were prior to those events. So far in 2021, 10% of U.S. adults, on average, have mentioned race relations, lack of racial […] Read more »
Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults
Most Americans say they are very familiar with their roots, but the strength of their attachment to them varies by race and Hispanic origin, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted to explore themes of self-identity ahead of last year’s U.S. decennial census. Black and Hispanic adults were more […] Read more »