Ten charts show how the U.S. has changed for the better since MLK’s speech
Earlier today, to mark the 50th anniversary of #Martin_Luther_King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, we posted a series of charts showing that the economic gap between whites and blacks hasn’t really narrowed over the last 50 years. In some cases — like the wealth gap — it’s actually widened.
Yet by other metrics, there has been a striking amount of racial progress in the United States since 1963. That’s worth noting too:
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