State of Black America: Injustice ‘on every front’
Justice for African Americans was challenged “on every front” in the past year according to a report released Thursday — especially in terms of accountability for police misconduct, erosion of voting rights and widening economic gaps.
“Simply put, the state of Black America is in crisis,” said the report, “State of Black America,” released on Thursday by the National Urban League, a civil rights organization which also included Latinos in its evaluation of equality in the United States.
The 39th edition of the annual publication comes after a series of police killings of unarmed black men over the past year. Their deaths prompted nationwide protests that have elevated the topic of racism and discriminatory policing to the level of a national conversation.
“Few times in a nation’s history is its collective conscience shocked and awakened across racial, economic, generational and even ideological lines as ours has been over the past year,” Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said in a press release. “We are in that moment, and as long as justice is challenged on any front, we will keep pushing on every front.”
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“Simply put, the state of Black America is in crisis,” said the report, “State of Black America,” released on Thursday by the National Urban League, a civil rights organization which also included Latinos in its evaluation of equality in the United States.
The 39th edition of the annual publication comes after a series of police killings of unarmed black men over the past year. Their deaths prompted nationwide protests that have elevated the topic of racism and discriminatory policing to the level of a national conversation.
“Few times in a nation’s history is its collective conscience shocked and awakened across racial, economic, generational and even ideological lines as ours has been over the past year,” Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said in a press release. “We are in that moment, and as long as justice is challenged on any front, we will keep pushing on every front.”
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