“I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!” TryingCountryPresidentWhiteAudienceVictoryMoonSucceedSpeechPercentWake UpGratefulOur CountryAfrican AmericanEtcVotersWakingBlack PeoplePresident ObamaAsianHispanicPunditsAsian AmericanHallelujahPolarizing Author:Maya Angelou
“Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?” WayFeelsMightKidsChoicesNamesPresidentWonderPrinciplesPercentSlavePopulationAfrican AmericanOwnersSlave Owners Author:Jordan Peele
“Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.” WhiteCitiesPercentAfrican AmericanDetroitSuburbsMichigan Author:Kwame Kilpatrick
“The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.” TwoCountrySchoolSpeakBlackNumbersMiddleDiversityPercentHigh SchoolProfessionAfrican AmericanArchitect Author:Philip Freelon
“In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.” ChildrenFactsSchoolLevelsStudyKingsPercentDiedDataAfrican AmericanDrsHarvard Author:Bobby Scott
“There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.” LooksFiveFourPercentPopulationAfrican AmericanMinoritiesIowa Author:Joe Biden
“The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.” WellsTwoPresidentPercentMarkCellsAfrican AmericanApprovalPopularityRatingApproval RatingAnemiaSickle Cell Author:Bill Maher
“At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.” PeopleWayEndsJobsLevelsNumbersCitiesHalfCenturyPercentWestSouthAfrican AmericanProtectedPreacher20th CenturySurvivingRisenMigrationGreat CitiesSmall Numbers Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.” StillsJobsForceMilitaryPercentHundredBiggerAfrican AmericanUnitsHistoricMarineIntegratingCultural Change Author:Renee Montagne
“Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But it's a very tiny percent so that when we look at, you know, who are pastors and who are the head clergy of these congregations, they're overwhelmingly white, just a few African Americans, and those folks are usually called to what were formerly white congregations, or they started interracial church from the get-go.” PeopleKnowsLooksReasonSocialChurchWhiteEconomicPercentFolksTinyAfrican AmericanPastorSocial NetworkCongregationClergy Author:Michael Emerson
“In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.” PercentBarackAfrican AmericanElectorate Author:Mara Liasson
“I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.” WayTrumpPercentAfrican AmericanFlip Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.” IfsKnowsWholeWould BeAmericaWhiteKnowingPolicyCoupleHigherRight NowPercentDown AndEducationalAfrican AmericanBarriersGapsUnemploymentPercentagesHiringPublic Policy Author:Barack Obama
“I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.” KnowsWellsHardBlackCommunitySupportMiddlePercentOkayAfrican AmericanHanging OutSay AnythingBlack WomenCasualConstraintsMiddle AgedThis SocietyForthcomingSeething Author:Barack Obama
“We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].” YearsNationsCommunityNumbersHalfCasesKnowingDangerPercentPopulationAfrican AmericanTestedHivOur CommunitySmall PartsNon Stop Author:Jay Ellis
“In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.” KidsJobsYoungCommunityDealsIssuesPercentPoliceRateAfrican AmericanThirtyVotersUnemploymentPolice BrutalityBrutalitySuppressionUnemployment RateVoter Suppression Author:Bernie Sanders
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.” FeelsJobsCoursesMillionsPositionPercentRecoveryAfrican AmericanUnemployedPart TimeLooking For A Job Author:Rick Perry
“When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.” WellsCommunityForgetPercentVoteDemocraticSignificantAfrican AmericanProportionBiblicalEvangelical Author:Tony Campolo