Protests sweeping U.S. cities over the videotaped death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police are accentuating other grim realities of racial disparity in America: African-Americans lag other groups by nearly every economic measure.
The coronavirus pandemic is killing black people at a rate 2.4 times that of white people.
Almost 20% fewer black Americans were employed in April compared with two months earlier, a bigger loss than among white people, with May data Friday expected to show further job cuts.
Almost 21% of black people in the U.S. live below the poverty level, a rate more than double that of white people.
In the U.S. overall, the rate of deaths among black people is more than double that of white people.
