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.
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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