(Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; photos by Luis Quintero, Cotton Bro Studios and Yogendra Singh) The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Monica Sanchez fills out official forms that inquire about race, she sometimes feels annoyed by the options. “I’m like: No, I ...

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from different ...

View of Crowd at August 28, 1963 March on Washington This is the fourth post in a six part series dealing with the race questions on the census. The end of de jure segregation and racial ...

WASHINGTON - To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat 'Hispanic' as a distinct category regardless of race, end ...

When Monica Sanchez fills out official forms that inquire about race, she sometimes feels annoyed by the options. “I’m like: No, I’m not white. I’m not Black or Asian. That is basically the only ...

The 2020 U.S. Census has finally released its most detailed findings on America's race and ethnicity. Venezuelans were recorded as the fastest-growing Hispanic group, and Asian Indians and Chinese ...

FILE - A billboard highlighting the 2020 Census is seen in Dearborn, Mich., on Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File) As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it ...

WASHINGTON - To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat "Hispanic" as a distinct category regardless of race, end ...

Kenneth Prewitt, a former director of the United States Census Bureau, recently wrote a New York Times op-ed, Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories. In it, he makes a number of important points: 1 ...