Today, about 51% of U.S. adults said they support the BLM movement. Three years ago, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, 67%, supported the movement. Critics now question how much real progress has been made.
new facilities to highlight their commitment to ending systemic racism and law enforcement departments committed to reform.Juliana Horowitz, one of the report’s authors, believes drastic changes in the country’s climate around issues of race and racial equality over this time have played a major role in shifting views.
As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the country and confined most Americans indoors and online, Horowitz also said thatthe public was following news about the protests just as closely as updates on the pandemic, and this sparked optimism that progress for Black Americans was possible in the U.S. Adults under 30 are also more likely to support the movement more than any other age group. About 64% of this age group supports the movement, with support greatly declining in older Americans: 52% for those 30-49, 46% for those 50-64 and 41% for those 65 and older.
Dr. Evan Auguste, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and an expert in Black liberation psychology, believes that support for the movement has too often been conflated with legitimate action that far fewer people participated in, which ultimately failed to produce the kind of change many people desired.
Other estimates found that 271 U.S. corporations pledged $67 billion toward racial equity, but only $652 million of those funds had actually been disbursed by June 2021, according to, an economic research firm that has tracked diversity investing for decades. “Given that these philanthropic commitments were, in part, driven by social activism and a heightened need in that moment to signal support for racial equity, the decline in support is likely at least partly a result of lower levels of racial justice activism,” Banks told Yahoo News. “Thus, the 2020 activism contributed to meaningful gains for African Americans. However, as the sociopolitical environment has shifted, in some cases those gains have not been long term.
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