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"Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality, a new poll shows," 

Today's Question: Has the U.S. achieved Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a colorblind society?

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“Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality, a new poll shows,” writes Associated Press reporter Hope Yen. Despite a heightened sense of racial progress immediately following the 2008 election of the first black president, Americans’ views of black progress have waned.…

Has the U.S. achieved Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a colorblind society?

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