WASHINGTON — A new report says Black America held steady and Hispanic America improved slightly during former President Barack Obama's final year. But the National Urban League says progress may be in danger under President Donald Trump. Its State of Black America report uses an equality index, with 100 percent being full equality with whites. The equality index for blacks was 72.3 percent in 2016, a small increase from 2015's 72.2 percent. The equality index for Hispanics was 78.4 percent, which is an increase from 77.9 percent in 2015.

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Report Includes the Semi-Annual Equality Index and the First “Pulse of Black America” Companion Poll

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ATLANTA (AP) — The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9% of the American pie white people enjoy.

Marc Morial, president & CEO of the National Urban League, expressed in the introduction to the organization’s report on the “State of Black America” an outlook that is consistent with what many African Americans believe, and we are certainly in accord.

This week marked the release of the National Urban League’s annual “State of Black America” report with a special launch event at Morehouse, an historically Black college in Atlanta.

Titled, “Democracy in Peril: Confronting the Threat Within,” the 2023 report says that “hate crimes ballooned in 2021.”

FBI statistics also reveal that hate crimes reached a two-decade high in 2020, and more than half of these crimes (over 60%) were directed at African Americans.

The National Urban League made its way to Atlanta to announce the State of Black America report Tuesday, April 18. The State of Black America report is an annual study that covers a variety of topics under one central theme. This year’s theme is titled “The State of Black America Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy,” and it is the organization’s 46th edition in the series. 

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(CNN)Higher unemployment rates, lower household incomes and lack of access to health care left Black Americans more vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic and there is an urgency to address these structural inequities, according to a new report on the state of Black America released Thursday by the National Urban League.

CNBC’s “Squawk Box” team discusses the state of inequity amid the pandemic with Lisa Cooper of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Health Equity and Marc Morial, Urban League CEO.

WHILE THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has engulfed the nation in public health dangers and economic turmoil, Black Americans are facing particularly stark crises. In a sense, "Black America faces three pandemics" in the devastating health effects of COVID-19, significant economic distress, and issues related to policing and criminal justice, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League.

The National Urban League has released its 2020 State of Black America report. This year’s report focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is pulling back the curtain on racism in America. The report was released virtually on Aug. 13 with speakers including, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, activist Tamika Mallory, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and author Michael Eric Dyson.