Take a look at this chart: In 2009, the average life expectancy of black men and women in the United States was just 75. That's roughly the same as the average life expectancy of white men and ...

as shown in the charts above. But these forms of inequality are most pronounced when we look at black and white neighborhoods. Consider unemployment. During the Great Recession of 2007 to 2010 ...

The yawning wealth gap between black ... chart from a recent report by the left-wing think tank Demos and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University. As it shows, the median ...

Our Chart of the Week looks at one of them: the higher incarceration rates of black men compared with those of white men. The above graphic from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog shows that black men in ...