Black Americans have been largely Democratic voters since the mid-20th century, but recent studies show that a small percentage of Black Americans identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and they tend to support individualistic approaches to addressing racial inequality.
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Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half-century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning to chip away at discrimination in education, jobs and public facilities. Black voters had only obtained […]