Black Mobility & Safety

Question 1

Calling in vs. Calling out

Answer 1

If you call someone in, you circle back to a hurtful or oppressive comment they made in private. If you call someone out, you let them know their comment was hurtful in a public space.

Question 2

Ending of Slavery in the US

Answer 2

13th Amendment > Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States

Question 3

The Great Migration

Answer 3

The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

Question 4

Incarceration statistics

Answer 4

Even after the incarceration rate dropped 25% from 2000 to 2015, Black men were still nearly 6 x more likely to be incarcerated than white men, 25x more likely than black women and 50 times more likely than white women. Black men raised in top 1% of millionaires are as likely to be incarcerated as white men raised in households earning $36,000