Black dads helped win the Civil War. But not so their sons could kill each other.
After winding about five miles through mostly Black neighborhoods on Sunday, the motorcade ends in Southeast Washington. If those brave soldiers from the Civil War somehow joined the motorcade, they would see a city at once both unimaginable and all too familiar.
In Washington, D.C., Black people have “the lowest per capita annual median income and the greatest disparities in income at $29,927 when compared to that of white people at $92,758 and Latinos at $41,151,” the study said. In addition, Black people in D.C. experienced the highest unemployment rate at 4.8 percent than any jurisdiction reviewed by Brookings. The study also said the “largest percentage of Black residents living below the poverty line, 21.6%, lived in Washington, D.C.
After departing from the Civil War memorial museum at around noon on Sunday, the caravan rolls into Ward 5. Here’s what that looks like by the numbers: There are 92,000 residents — 17,000 of them children under the ages of 18; the population is about 62 percent Black, with 40 percent of the households headed by single mothers, who tend to make less money than their married counterparts.
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