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Latest Fact-Checks In Race and Ethnicity

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg." 
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2015 posts on the Internet
"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2015
Cornell William Brooks
Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on Face the Nation
"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."
Mostly True
June 25, 2015
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."
Mostly True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Jean Casarez
Jean Casarez
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on CNN
The Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse "must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes -- taken down, or even at half-staff, if that can be done -- must be passed by a supermajority of the General Assembly."
True
By Linda Qiu • June 21, 2015
Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik
stated on June 16, 2015 comments on CNN
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 18, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 11, 2015 an interview on PBS
"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech at Texas Southern University
"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Institute for Women's Policy Research
stated on May 20, 2015 a new report
Georgia ranks 49th for women serving in elected state and federal offices.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 27, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2015 a meme on social media
"During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2015
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on May 7, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2015
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on March 31, 2015 a RedState.com column
Say Apple’s Tim Cook "will not do business with Indiana."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2015
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 29, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • March 29, 2015
Jalen Ross
Jalen Ross
stated on March 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white name resume."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2015
Erika Sanzi
Erika Sanzi
stated on March 5, 2015 a newspaper commentary
"Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color."
Mostly True
By Katie Mulvaney • March 15, 2015
Henry Sanders
Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2015 a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2015
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2015 remarks at a White House summit
"There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 19, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit
Hispanic students in Florida perform "the best" of any Hispanic population in the United States.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2015
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