Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The 2030 U.S. Census will include new race and ethnicity checkboxes for Hispanic people and people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, the Office of Management and Budget announced ...

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

When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010 ... the complexities of how people identify their race ...

The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change some advocates of the process say will allow ...

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

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 ...

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 ...