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February 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word 'Negro' to…
January 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Census Bureau is considering removing the term Negro from its form by 2020...
December 12, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census…
November 14, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranks of America's poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on…
June 18, 2012
As the population of immigrants continues to increase in the United States there will eventually no longer be a majority…
May 24, 2012
OPINION - Despite a massive and expensive outreach campaign to minorities, the 2010 U.S. Census missed over 1.5 million blacks,…
May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters…
May 22, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The undercount estimate has generally gone down, but it's always been disproportionately higher for blacks than…
May 18, 2012
Hate groups and militias have been steadily growing in numbers over the past few years as America's makeup continues to…
May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in…
May 1, 2012
OPINION - Despite recent media reports that we are living in a 'post-racial world' as the face of the American…
April 26, 2012
The 2010 census revealed that 1 of every 10 heterosexual couples married in the United States are interracial...
March 20, 2012
A federal court ordered the state to accept their restricting plan after local officials failed to agree on one of…
February 27, 2012
Some 19.4 percent of black and 19.0 percent of Latino seniors have incomes below the federal poverty line, compared to…
February 6, 2012
(AP) - The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave…
February 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - According to a preliminary Census analysis, roughly one million respondents were in the black category but specified…
January 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Changing demographics throughout the nation, combined with retiring lawmakers and redistricting, have members of the Congressional Black…
December 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have…
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional…
November 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The city that may be the best example of this new racial identity is Lansing, which has…