The Globalist

Time for action: Black America’s sad balance sheet 50 years after major civil rights reform.

Which nation spends the most on international tourism?

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the lowest rates of access to electricity in the world.

Since 2000, the wage gap between white and black Americans has increased dramatically.

Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites.

Incarceration of black Americans is over three times their 12.2% share of the U.S. population.

Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, how much progress have black Americans made?

The education gap between black and white students is still large.

The wealth gap between whites and blacks has reached record levels.

Africa has one of the youngest and fastest-growing consumer markets in the world.