The Globalist’s Top 10 Features on African Americans
A selection of the best features on African Americans published by The Globalist in 2014.
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[ 1 ] America’s Police: Preparing Urban Warfare
By Johanna Mendelson Forman | What connects Mexico’s Iguala, Ferguson and New York City?
Published on December 7, 2014
[ 2 ] Ferguson/US: Police Systematically Out of Control
By Stephan Richter | The far too liberal use of deadly force by police in a conservative country.
Published on December 2, 2014
[ 3 ] African Americans: The State We’re In
By The Globalist | What is the state of black America fifty years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Published on August 21, 2014
[ 4 ] From Ferguson to Manassas
By Jacob Conteh | Why is the United States behaving like a police state?
Published on August 26, 2014
[ 5 ] A Black President?
By Stephan Richter | In too many ways, African Americans aren’t much better off today than 50 years ago.
Published on August 9, 2014
[ 6 ] Healing D.C.: What Muriel Bowser Must Do
By Terri Langston and Stephan Richter | Can the D.C. mayor-in-waiting overcome the racial divide in the U.S. capital city?
Published on April 7, 2014
[ 6 ] America’s Mezzogiorno: A Thanksgiving Reflection
By Stephan Richter and Carl Bindenagel | Why are U.S. southern states so determined not to serve the very real needs of the poor?
Published on November 26, 2014
[ 8 ] 6 Facts: Unemployment Among African Americans
By The Globalist | Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites.
Published on August 11, 2014
[ 9 ] 8 Facts: U.S. Incarceration: Still a Very Unequal Nation
By The Globalist | Incarceration of black Americans is over three times their 12.2% share of the U.S. population.
Published on August 10, 2014
[ 10 ] 7 Facts: Household Wealth in Black America
By The Globalist | The wealth gap between whites and blacks has reached record levels.
Published on August 8, 2014
