How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

24/7 Wall St. reviewed five-year data on race and ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey to determine the most diverse neighborhoods. The American West has the most ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

People who declare themselves mixed-race now form the largest share of Brazil’s population, the first time they have made up a plurality of Latin America’s largest nation since its statistics agency ...

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