This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

Study urges rethinking race in science but politics, misinterpretation may obscure key finding: Self-reported race a poor proxy for genetics Skip to Main Content Manage alerts for this article ...

For example, in our 2013 report on Asian Americans, we could only report characteristics of the 15 subgroups for which the Census Bureau makes data available (though this may change going forward). In ...

The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ...

The elderly population (age 65 and over) in the state grew 3.2% between July 2023 and July 2024, according to U.S. Census ...

Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) "All of Us" Research Program ...

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...

President Donald Trump says he is aware of and supports proposed legislation that would require the federal government to ...

With the Trump administration aggressively trying to increase the number of immigration arrests, raids are now being ...

Like many African Americans, my search was blocked by what’s referred to as the “1870’s wall.” That’s because prior to 1870, the United States Census did not note enslaved and formerly ...

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