Only 40% of Black students graduate from four-year universities and colleges within even six years, compared with 64% of white students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics ...

Among the states with the most progress toward Black and white integration, Texas came in at number five. [MORE: ‘I want to answer for that crime.’ Descendants of slave and her owner reconcile ...

The main takeaway from the report is that unless progress accelerates, it will take between 110 and 320 years to eliminate the gaps between Black and White Americans. Business.

The report cites legal challenges to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and backlash to efforts meant to advance racial progress such as affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

Wyoming, the report found, ranks number one in the nation for reducing the earnings gap between white and Black Americans. Since 1979, Wyoming has reduced the earnings gap by 42 percentage points.

The average Black household earns about half as much as the average white household, and white families have eight times the median wealth of Black families — $188,200, compared to $24,100 — a gap ...

The employment-population ratio between Black and White workers has equalized, but it remains to be seen whether the progress will outlast the current hot labor market. Skip to content Investing ...

There have been times when the Black-to-White unemployment-rate ratio was somewhat higher and times when it was somewhat lower, but the average of the ratios over this period is 2.1.

Three years after publishing “The Truth in Black and White,” this is how The Star has changed, and where we still see that there is work for our newsroom to do to improve.

Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history.