F or many of his Instagram followers, Matt Black is a newcomer. He joined the photo-sharing app in December of 2013 to chart, through a series of gritty and deeply personal black-and-white ...

Photojournalist Matt Black has spent the past four years traveling across the country shooting images for his project The Geography of Poverty. He tells Scott Simon about what he's seen and learned.

A prominent Black pastor says white poverty doesn’t get enough attention NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rev. William Barber II ahead of the Poor People's Campaign march.

Black children in stable, two-parent families are more likely to experience poverty and incarceration, and less likely to graduate from college, compared to their white peers from stable, two ...

In the report, 24% of white households experience "asset poverty"—that is, a lack of property that can be passed along—while Black people again have the highest rate, at 52%.

In 2019, Black and Hispanic poverty rates reached historic lows at 18.8 percent and 15.7 percent, respectively; in contrast, the white poverty rate over those same decades was 10.1 percent at its ...

It’s harder for Black Americans born into poverty to break the cycle and escape than their white counterparts.. According to the 2023 State of Babies Yearbook, “approximately three in five ...

Researchers at Harvard University examined MRI scans of 7,350 white and 1,786 Black children ages 9 and 10. The data in the study was collected by the National Institutes of Health in 2019.

BY ZOE WRAY In 1999, 33 percent of black children lived in poverty while only 13.5 percent of white children did. Some argue that completely free-market economics, a theory included in the ...