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

State law requires data collection during traffic stops, but experts say a gap could obscure potential racial profiling ...

The 2020 census results described a rapidly growing multiracial population in the United States, but two sociologists ... even if they identified with only one race. Similarly, those who ...

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 ...

The census is mandated by the US Constitution. “The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term ...

The United States' largest statistical agency said ... to the race question in 2020 than they did in 2010. “The 2020 Census race and ethnicity results reveal the complex way people identify ...

Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem because his parents had to register there with the Roman authorities, who sought information on the population of their Empire. Roughly two millennia later, the ...

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos has announced he is resigning midway through his five-year term. Santos, the first person of color to lead the bureau, was appointed by former ...

Researchers across the country are in “a mad scramble” to sort out what public data the Trump administration has deleted from ...

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%) ...