Amid protests, majorities across racial and ethnic groups express support for the Black Lives Matter movement

Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, with 38% saying they strongly support it. Most adults say tensions between black people and police and concerns about the treatment of black people in the U.S. – in addition to anger over George Floyd’s death – have contributed a great deal to the protests.

• About two-thirds of black adults say Trump has made race relations worse
• Most black men say they have been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity
• Most Americans say they’ve had conversations about race or racial equality in the last month

Majorities of Americans say news coverage of George Floyd protests has been good, Trump’s public message wrong

Americans have been following news of George Floyd’s death and the demonstrations that followed nearly as closely as they had been keeping up with news related to COVID-19, and many are discussing it frequently with others. Six-in-ten U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s message in response to the protests has been wrong, while 57% say news organizations have done a “good” or “excellent” job covering the protests.

• Large partisan divide on news media’s performance and the president’s message, smaller divide on attention to events
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#BlackLivesMatter surges on Twitter after George Floyd’s death

As protests continue over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was used an average of just under 3.7 million times per day from May 26 to June 7. Nearly 8.8 million public tweets contained #BlackLivesMatter on May 28, making it the busiest single day for the hashtag in data going back to 2013.

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Hispanic women, immigrants, young adults, those with less education hit hardest by COVID-19 job losses

The coronavirus recession is the first of eight economic downturns in the past five decades in the U.S. in which women have lost more jobs than men, with Hispanic women hit the hardest. Employment among immigrant workers has decreased more sharply than among the U.S. born.

• Unemployment rose higher in three months of COVID-19 than it did in two years of the Great Recession
• A majority of Americans say immigrants mostly fill jobs U.S. citizens do not want

Americans’ views on World Health Organization split along partisan lines as Trump calls for U.S. to withdraw

Just 46% of Americans give the WHO positive marks on its coronavirus response, though views of how well the organization has dealt with the outbreak are sharply divided along partisan lines. Around six-in-ten Democrats (62%) say the organization has done at least a good job in handling the pandemic, but only 28% of Republicans say the same.

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Fast facts about how Americans and Germans see security issues amid Trump’s plan to reduce troop levels

In Taiwan and across the region, many support closer economic ties with both U.S. and mainland China

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