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  • About 7.5 million (36%) Black American adults have Internet access (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000).

  • More than 3.5 million Black American Internet users went online for the first time in the year 2000, nearly doubling the size of the Black online population (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000).

  • More than half of the Black Americans who recently went online are not college graduates (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000).

  • Almost 6 out of 10 Blacks who are online are women (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000).

  • More than half of the Blacks who went online used the Internet to get information about a job (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000).

  • White (46.1%) and Asian American & Pacific Islander (56.8%) households continued to have Internet access at levels more than double those of Black (23.5%) and Hispanic (23.6%) households (Benton Foundation, 2001).

  • 4 out of 5 Black Internet users have Web access at home (Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2000). NBUF
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