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| Originally published | 2003 |
| Authors | Eric Schlosser |
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| ID | 2477343 |
About Americans
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, the President of the United States is shot by an anarchist. Is the crime a protest against America's imperial ambitions--or a cry for attention by an angry young man? . . .
Who are the released Israeli hostages?
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US evangelicals drive Republican support for Israel
... " There are few issues in Washington that could so easily bring together leaders of both parties in both chambers, " Mr Johnson said, " but the survival of the state of Israel unites us together and unites all Americans...
Israelis and Palestinians fear worst to come after Gaza violence
... Benjamin Netanyahu s decision - supported by the Americans - to allow the conflict to fester, in the mistaken belief that Israel could keep a lid on it while attending to more important matters, turned out to be a strategic error of monumental proportions...
Ex-wife of IS 'Beatle' speaks out for first time
... At his 2022 trial in the US, prosecutors said Elsheikh s actions resulted in the deaths of four Americans - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig...
US heatwave: A third of Americans under extreme heat advisories
... Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are under heat advisories: from Florida to California and up to Washington state...
The US is the world's biggest corn exporter - but for how long?
... Economists say, however, that Brazil s rise is not likely to have a major impact on the day-to-day lives of Americans - agriculture does not carry the same economic weight of decades past...
TikTok: Montana to become first US state to ban app on personal devices
... In March, a congressional committee grilled TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew about whether the Chinese government could access user data or influence what Americans see on the app...
President Joe Biden launches 2024 re-election campaign
... " When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America - and we still are, " Mr Biden said in the three-minute announcement video, which shows the president meeting a diverse range of Americans...
George Floyd: How African are-Americans are treated under the law?
violence broke out in cities in the United States about the death of the African-American George Floyd, after he was held back physically by The Police in Minneapolis.
We have looked at some of the data, crime and justice in the United States, and what it shows about the experiences of African-Americans , when It Comes to law and order.
1. African-Americans are more likely to be fatally shotThe figures available are for cases in which The Police shoot and kill people to show that for African-Americans , there is a much higher chance, fatally shot in proportion to their total number in the U.S. population.
In fact, in the year 2019, although African-Americans , less than 14% of the population (according to official census), More Than 23% of The Just over 1,000 fatal shootings accounted for by The Police .
And this number has been relatively consistent, as of 2017, whereas The Number of white victims come down since then.
2. African-Americans are arrested at a higher rate for drug abuseAfrican Americans are arrested for drug abuse at a much higher rate than white Americans , even though surveys show drug use at a similar level.
drug abuse, arrests by race, Hispanics are not counted separately. The other is the Asian, native American, Hawaiian or Pacific islanders. Source: FBI and U.S. Census Bureau data for the year 2018In the year 2018, approximately 750 of every 100,000 African-Americans were arrested for drug abuse, compared to approximately 350 out of every 100,000 white Americans .
" previous to show that White People use drugs at similar rates, but African-Americans continue to be arrested at a higher rate.
For example, found that blacks were Americans 3. 7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites, although their rate of marijuana-was the use of comparable.
3. More and more African-Americans are imprisonedthe Afro-Americans are imprisoned five times the rate of white Americans and almost twice the rate of Hispanic-Americans , according to the latest data.
In the year 2018, Afro-Americans , roughly 13% of the US population, but a third of the country's Prison population was almost.
White Americans , approximately 30% of The Prison population, despite representing More Than 60% of the total U.S. population.
More Than 1,000 African-American prisoners for every 100,000 African Americans , compared to around 200 white inmates per 100,000 white Americans .
Prison inmates per 100,000 people, by race source: U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Justice StatisticsThe U.S. Prison population is sentenced is defined as the prisoners who for More Than a year in a Federal or state Prison .
imprisonment rates have declined for African-Americans in The Last ten years, but they still make more Prison inmates than any other race.
reality check, george floyd death, united states, us race relations, police brutality
Source of news: bbc.com
