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White residents in South Africa generally have a higher standard of living than Black residents, a socioeconomic disparity that persisted more than three decades after the end of apartheid.

A 2025 Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) American Values Survey of 5,543 U.S. adults found 62% said the country was going in the wrong direction, with 92% of Democrats, 71% of independents, and 24% of Republicans saying the country was going in the wrong direction.

A 2021 survey by the Skeptic Research Center found that 53.5% of respondents identifying as 'very liberal' estimated that 1,000 or more unarmed Black men were killed by police.

Existing available data indicate that between 13 and 27 unarmed Black men were killed by police in the United States in 2019, and adjusting for law enforcement agencies that had not provided data yields a higher estimated range of about 60 to 100 unarmed Black men killed by police in 2019.

The 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page included a photograph showing a person in blackface and another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood.

UNESCO's anti-racist initiatives in the 1950s focused attention on problems in the United States and South Africa and only began to have a more global approach and impact around 1960.

UNESCO's 'Statement on Race' published in July 1950 declared that there was no biological justification for racial discrimination and promoted the concept of human unity.

From 1945 UNESCO functioned as an international hub of cultural internationalism that facilitated international scientific debate and sought conceptual standardization of the concept of race through statements and publications.