Race & Ethnicity

Among black Americans, 72% say coverage has been good or excellent and 85% say Trump’s message has been completely or mostly wrong.

As demonstrations continue across the country to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man killed while in Minneapolis police custody, Americans see the protests  both as a reaction to Floyd’s death and an expression of frustration over longstanding issues.

#BlackLivesMatter was used roughly 47.8 million times on Twitter – an average of just under 3.7 million times per day – from May 26 to June 7.

The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.

In April, 78% of Americans overall – but 56% of black Americans – said they had confidence in police officers to act in the public's best interests.

We are committed to hearing and addressing the experiences of people of color—as well as confronting racism and working for a better America.

Black adults were much more likely than whites and somewhat more likely than Hispanic adults to frequently discuss the pandemic with others.

Black Americans stand out from other racial and ethnic groups in their attitudes toward key health care questions associated with the pandemic.

Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they’ve been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.

The gender gap in party identification remains the widest in a quarter century.