“…Typically, U.S. minority groups self-report distrust in government fairly consistently, an attribute many political scientists and historians ascribe to decades of intentional and ongoing disenfranchisement and voter suppression (Shaw, DeSipio, Pinderhughes, & Travis, 2018). However, Walton, Smith, and Wallace (2017) note that, for the Black community, the perceived responsiveness of the federal government to their needs and interests, particularly protecting their civil rights, impacts their political trust and political engagement. Importantly, the PIAAC survey data used in this analysis were collected at the end of the first term of the U.S.’s first elected Black president, Barack Obama.…”