by lindaoppenheim | Oct 26, 2017 | Poll
“A majority of whites say discrimination against them exists in America today, according to a poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that,...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 26, 2017 | Article, Poll
“Race issues seem to have a big market on Facebook and that really brings out ugliness,” said one white respondent to a Pew Research survey. One fourth of black Americans say they have been targeted online due to their race or ethnicity, compared with...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2015 | Article, Poll
The article in MyCentralJersey.com states findings of a recent Kaiser/CNN poll: “New findings in a poll released by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation show that 49 percent of Americans believe racism is “a big problem.” That figure is up from 2011, when just...
by lindaoppenheim | May 13, 2015 | Opinion, Poll
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds that race is a determining factor in attitudes toward the police and other institutions, including prosecutors and the availability of competent legal assistance for New Jersey residents. Three quarters of whites (75%)...