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Blacks increasingly less certain about racial progress in America
Image: Black New Orleans residents
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Katherine Mundell, top, and Georgiana Broadneck are two of a minority of residents who returned to their housing project in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. According to a new study, the government's response to the storm was one of several incidents that have caused blacks to become more pessimistic about racial progress.
WASHINGTON - Growing numbers of blacks say they’re worse off than five years ago and don’t expect their lives to improve, a study released Tuesday shows. Black pessimism about racial progress in America, according to the study, is the worst it’s been in more than two decades.
The survey by the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based research organization, paints a mixed picture of race relations following Hurricane Katrina and the Jena Six case, in which six black teens were charged with beating a white student at a high school in the town of Jena, La.