In other words, the numbers are presented side by side as if directly comparable, but are based on different benchmarks (per million black people or per million white people). Because the graph ...

In 1988, Census data for Mississippi showed a 6.3-point gap as white voter registration fell and black voter registration increased. In 2012, Mississippi’s gap even reversed: 90.2 percent of ...

A new report from the CDC found that during the first year of the pandemic, drug overdose death rates rose substantially in Black and Native American populations in the U.S. From 2019 to 2020 ...

The increases were particularly stark among babies born to Native American, Alaska Native and white mothers in 2022. Rates among Black infants ... significantly increasing the nation’s infant ...

A WBEZ analysis shows that an increasing ... black communities of South Shore (3,487), on the South Side, and Austin (3,130), on the West Side, than in all of the city’s 19 majority-white ...

no group has seen a bigger increase than Black men. As a result, Black men have overtaken White men and are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely ...