As of 2025, Black people made up 12.6% of the U.S. population but accounted for more than one quarter of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.
November 02, 2025
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temporal
Racial distribution of SNAP participation compared with population share.
The U.S. Department of Justice can conduct civil-rights investigations of local police departments and conclude that those departments discriminated against Black people and repeatedly violated citizens' civil rights.
October 30, 2025
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contextual
Describes the possible outcomes and scope of DOJ civil-rights investigations into policing practices.
Available data indicate that 24.9% of people killed by police in the United States in 2019 were Black.
January 01, 2019
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temporal
Share of people killed by police who were Black as indicated by compiled data for 2019.