Raising Black Kids In A Racist America

The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others have brought violence and racism against black Americans to the forefront of political and social conversation . Data from the advocacy group Mapping Police Violence shows that black Americans are at an increased risk of being killed by police, accounting for 24% of all people killed by police in 2019, despite making up only 13% of the nation’s population. The U.S. Department of Justice also reports that the victims of almost half of all homicides and 15% of all nonfatal violent crimes in 2005 were black.