New Gerber Babies Reflect Rainbow of Racial Diversity
By Alexis Garrett Stodghill On the heels of reports that America has more minority than white babies for the first time, the Gerber baby food company has decided to revise its iconic logo. The infant...
View ArticleCensus Shows Decline in Black Kids in Big Cities
(AP) — A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side. Over the past decade,...
View ArticleDiversity Reigns in Prince George's County
(The Grio) — Prince George’s County is the most racially diverse county in Maryland, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau figures cited in the Baltimore Business Journal. Minority groups account for...
View ArticleSlower Racial Change Found in Census of City
(New York Times) — New York City edged a baby step closer to racial equilibrium in the last decade, according to census results released this month. Compared with the 1990s, the numbers of Hispanic and...
View ArticleCity Challenges Census
(Wall Street Journal) — City Hall has filed a formal challenge to the New York City population totals reported in the 2010 U.S. Census, claiming that large swaths of Queens and Brooklyn went uncounted....
View ArticleMore Latinos Headed to College Than Blacks
(Washington Post) — Hispanics surpassed blacks in 2010 to become the second-largest racial or ethnic group of young adults in America’s colleges, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data. The...
View ArticlePoverty Levels At Highest Rate Since 1983
by R. Asmerom It seems that in the last decade, there’s been a lot of bad news for the U.S. economy and just when things seemed to be getting better, they got worse. A new report by the U.S. Census...
View Article10 Major Cities With The Largest Black Populations
Though we can go anywhere, we do love our cities.
View ArticleMultiracial Groups Better Off than Blacks, Still Segregated
Black-white multiracials appear to be more segregated than Asian-white or American Indian–white multiracials.
View ArticleHow Is This Possible? Study Shows Male Nurses Make More Money
Even in this female-dominated profession, men make more money.
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