The 276% increase largely happened because of a change in how people were classified by the U.S. Census Bureau rather than ...

The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

Two sociologists from Princeton University argue that the public was misled by 2020 census' multiracial boom findings.

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) ...

When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States ... people identify their race and ethnicity in the 21st ...

As president, Trump unsuccessfully tried to disqualify people who were in the United States illegally from being included in the 2020 census. Momentum for changing the race and ethnicity ...

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

The U.S. Census ... The United States' largest statistical agency said in a statement this week to The Associated Press that millions more people reported multiple responses to the race question ...

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...