1/ Exactly 50 years after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., America is still far from his dream. #MLK50
2/ From economic well-being to criminal justice issues, racial inequality is still very real.
Here’s how America has (and hasn’t) changed since that day in 1968.
3/ Black Americans make much less money than their white peers.
4/ Black people are still unemployed at nearly twice the rates as white people.
5/ White family wealth is nearly seven times greater than black family wealth.
6/ Black people are more than twice as likely to live in poverty.
7/ Black kids are more likely to grow up in poor neighborhoods than they were decades ago.
8/ School segregation remains fairly common.
9/ Black-white high school completion gaps have narrowed…
10/ …the college education gap, however, remains huge.
11/ Black voter turnout has generally trended up for the last couple decades.
12/ Incarceration rates have grown a lot — and black people have suffered the most as a result.
13/ And black people are more likely to be shot and killed by police than their white counterparts.
14/14 Needless to say: we still have a long way to go. Read more from @germanrlopez here: bit.ly/2q1GYgI #MLK50
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