“I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Eric Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed them.
And now, two young African American men, Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, are found dead, hanging by their necks 50 miles from one another in California.
The median income of African American families, at $41,000, is less than 60% of White families at $71,000, another gap that has grown worse since 2000.
African Americans are 60% less likely to have health care at work than Whites.
African Americans are less likely to have adequate health insurance and more likely to have chronic illnesses.