Faith among Black Americans

Plus, what will life be like in 2025? February 20, 2021 Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ Faith among Black Americans Most Black Americans say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith. And 60% of Black adults who go to religious services say they attend predominantly Black places of worship. But these patterns appear to be changing: Young Black adults are less religious and less engaged in Black churches than older generations. Black Americans more religious than the U.S. public overall 10 new findings about faith among Black Americans Three-quarters of Black Americans say Black churches have helped promote racial equality Experts say the ‘new normal’ in 2025 will be far more tech-driven, presenting more big challenges We canvassed 915 experts in technology, communications and social change and asked them to consider what life will be like in 2025 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and other crises in 2020. A plurality of these experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people as greater inequality, rising authoritarianism and rampant misinformation take hold. Still, a portion believe life will be better in a “tele-everything” world. Under Trump, the federal prison population continued its recent decline The federal prison population, which declined for the first time in decades under President Barack Obama, fell further during the administration of President Donald Trump. The number of federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year behind bars decreased by 5% between 2017, Trump’s first year in office, and the end of 2019. Preliminary figures for 2020 suggest that the decrease continued – and even accelerated – in Trump’s final full year in office. Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media. But notable shares say their most recent such experience happened elsewhere, including on forum or discussion sites, texting or messaging apps, online gaming platforms, their personal email account or online dating sites or apps. Certain kinds of harassing behaviors, meanwhile, are particularly likely to occur in certain locations online. The state of online harassment Some Americans who have been targeted by troubling behaviors online wouldn’t call it ‘harassment’ About one-in-five Americans who have been harassed online say it was because of their religion From our research 61% The share of Black Americans who say historically Black congregations should become more racially and ethnically diverse. Support Pew Research Center In times of uncertainty, good decisions demand good data. Please support Pew Research Center with a contribution on the Center's behalf to our parent organization, The Pew Charitable Trusts. DONATE Newsletter preferences View in browser Unsubscribe Facebook Twitter Instagram Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank. As a neutral source of data and analysis, Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. © 2021 Pew Research Center