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Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

Mar 1, 2013

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New York Times: Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows Incarceration rates for black Americans dropped sharply from 2000 to 2009, especially for women, while the rate of imprisonment for whites and Hispanics rose over the same decade, according to a report released Wednesday by a prison research and advocacy group in Washington.…

The First Post-Racial Generation?

Oct 4, 2012

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in Generations, Public Policy, Race, Trends: Social

Christian Science Monitor: 57 percent of Millennials oppose racial preferences for college, hiring The poll comes a week before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the use of race in admissions to the University of Texas at Austin. Fifty-seven percent of Americans ages 18 to 25…

Minorities Are Now Majority Of U.S. Births, Census Says

May 17, 2012

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in Demography, Race, Sociology

NPR: Minorities Are Now Majority Of U.S. Births, Census Says "For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S," The Associated Press writes. As USA Today adds, that news from the Census Bureau is "a sign of how swiftly the USA is becoming a nation…

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Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

The First Post-Racial Generation?

Minorities Are Now Majority Of U.S. Births, Census Says