Black Youth Face Disproportionate Incarceration As Racial Disparities Reach New Highs. Studies show Black children are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of their white peers.

'Youth of color are just not given the leniency.' In 2023, the most recent year for which data is available, Black children were nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated than white children ...

In March, the Black employment-population ratio was above the white employment-population ratio for the first time since at least 1972. The unemployment rate for Black Americans also hit a record ...

Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that ...

In 6-0 vote described as “historic,” the council adopted a so-called “compromise map” that contains four majority Black council districts and three districts with a majority of white voters.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved a map that increases the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white ...

The voting-age population would shift from 69.4% white to 54.1% Black. The proposed map would also alter the borders of 13 other Senate districts, with eight remaining majority Black and five ...

The new map will lower the Black voting-age population in Carter’s district to 51%, while drawing a new 6th Congressional District as a narrow strip through the center of the state, from ...