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BLACK WELL-BEING REPORT 2022
BLACK FUTURE CO-OP FUND
The Update Since 2015
What’s happened since 2015 must be put into a much longer context. Since 1492, we’ve fought an uphill battle.6 The following visual shows
just how long we’ve been facing the issues highlighted in this report. The frustrations, the exhaustion we feel are not only about what’s
happening today, at your job, at your school, in your neighborhood. Our social systems have been centuries in the making. Although we’ve
made progress, the rules by which our social systems function are the same as they’ve always been — only the flavor of harm has shifted.
Historical and Contemporary Racism in the U.S. Timeline 7
Post-Civil Rights
(1975 - 2018)
43 years
Civil Rights
(1955 - 1975)
20 years
Black Codes/Jim Crow
(1865 - 1965) 100 years
Slavery (1619 - 1865) 246 years
Legally Sanctioned Sexual and Reproductive Violence (i.e., rape)
Lynching, includes Sexual and Reproductive Mutlilation
Negative Stereotypes and Hypersexual Images
Limited Civil Rights
No Civil or Human Rights/Viewed as Property
Unethical Sexual and Reproductive Medical Experimentation
Laws Prohibiting Formal Education
Limited Education and Educational Resources
Health Care Tied to Labor Output
Disparities in Health Care Access, Diagnosis, Treatment
Uninsured/Underinsured
Free Labor/No Income
Limited Employment Opportunities/Income Potential
Racial Residential Segregation/Low-income “Minority” Neighborhoods
Generational Poverty
Racial Justice Uprisings
Black people looked with exasperation at the continued murders of our people. Since 2015 alone, law enforcement has killed 26 Black people
in our state.8 We responded by organizing, finding ways to keep one another safe, and continuing to demand justice. We formed new coalitions,
advocated for our public safety, and got important laws passed.
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