These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era
(WorldNews Business)

The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 yearsago, when Civil Rights-era reforms were enacted to expand opportunity and limit outright racial discrimination. Like the protests in the 1960s, the recent waves of rallies following Black Americans` deaths at the hands of policehave renewed attention to the long-standing racial divide inthe US. `Over the last half century, I would say that for many indicators, things have stagnated,` said Ellora Derenoncourt, assistant professor of economics and public policy at University of California, Berkeley. `The wealth gap, the income gap, the earnings gap.`...