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October 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - U.S census numbers have given the city a new label that's nothing to be proud of, but…
October 18, 2011
(September 2011) U.S. 2010 Census results show that black-white residential segregation declined modestly since 2000, continuing the gradual pace begun…
September 14, 2011
OPINION - The increasing number of blacks falling into poverty and out of the middle class means we are not…
September 13, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a…
July 26, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century...
July 18, 2011
WASHINGTON -- This city, the country's first to have an African-American majority and one of its earliest experiments in black…
June 30, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have…
June 3, 2011
NBC PHILADELPHIA - According to the report, Philadelphia lost roughly one third of its white population.
April 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting dynamics in cities…
March 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The changes can mean displacement of memories and sites that some African-Americans believe are historic and priceless...
February 21, 2011
(AP) - The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American...
February 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Southern U.S. region accounted for roughly 75 percent of the population gains among blacks since 2000,…
February 8, 2011
OPINION - In America, race has never been a scientific or genealogical designation, but a political and social one...
February 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Racial minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of U.S. population growth over the last decade -- one…
January 10, 2011
Houston, Charlotte, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C., were also among the nation's biggest gainers of African-Americans over the decade...
January 5, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people…
December 28, 2010
SLIDESHOW - The work of civil rights lawyers and advocates has not slowed in the wake of the 2008 presidential…
December 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Demographers believe the official 2010 count will be 308.7 million or lower, putting U.S. growth at around…
December 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include lots of good political news for Republicans and…
December 15, 2010
OPINION - The decline in black-white residential segregation is not an equal opportunity phenomenon...