(Photo by Stephanie Keith | Getty Images) The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change ...

As New Year's Eve revelers across the world clinked glasses and ordered rounds, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was in the midst ...

The U.S. Census' new question combining race and ethnicity will allow respondents ... of the Black or African American category as the United States' second-largest race, according to the U.S ...

In the United States, suicide rates can vary depending on race or ethnicity. Reasons for the disparities in suicide rates among races include: access to mental health resources discrimination or ...

Still, both race, which describes one’s physical characteristics, and ethnicity, which encompasses ... Yes. In the United States, for example, Asian Americans have often been considered, and ...

The U.S. Census Bureau has released new population data showing how much the nation and world has grown over the last year.

Now Mahdesian and others of mixed race may gain a ... of mixed-race people in the United States. Between 1960 and 1990, the number of interracial married couples ballooned from 150,000 to more than ...

District lines are redrawn every 10 years following completion of the United States census. Federal law stipulates that districts must have nearly equal populations and must not discriminate on the ...

Survey showed combined race and ethnicity questions caused fewer Hispanic Americans to identify as other races ...

Questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will now be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at the ...

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ...