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short readsFeb 12, 2025

A look at Black-owned businesses in the U.S.

While Black-owned businesses have grown significantly in the U.S. in recent years, they still make up a small share of overall firms and revenue.
reportFeb 25, 2026

Acknowledgments

The Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report was made possible with support from the Trusts and from the People & Voices Initiative. This report was written by Kiana Cox, senior researcher; Khadijah Edwards, research associate; Carolyne Im, research analyst; and Sahana Mukherjee, associate director, race and […]
short readsNov 3, 2025

The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
data essayNov 3, 2025

Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It

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.
reportFeb 26, 2025

9. Race and ethnicity in religious congregations

Americans who go to religious services tend to worship at places where most other congregants and senior leaders share their race or ethnicity. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
data essayNov 3, 2025

Methodology

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 174 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from June 16 to June 29, 2025. A total of 6,871 panelists responded out of 12,032 who were sampled, […]
reportFeb 25, 2026

Methodology

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 174 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted June 16-29, 2025. A total of 6,871 panelists responded out of 12,032 who were sampled, for a survey-level response […]
reportJun 15, 2024

Methodology

Note: An earlier version of the report used the phrase “racial conspiracy theories” to describe a complex and sensitive set of findings. We previously defined racial conspiracy theories as the suspicions that Black adults might have about the actions of U.S. institutions based on their personal and collective historical experiences with racial discrimination. For editorial […]
fact sheetAug 1, 2023

Hispanic and Black News Media Fact Sheet

News media made by and for Black and Hispanic Americans – the two largest racial and ethnic minority groups in the U.S. – have been a consistent part of the country’s news landscape. Explore statistics on the Hispanic- and Black-oriented news industry.
reportFeb 26, 2025

24. Age, race, education and other demographic traits of U.S. religious groups

Read about U.S. religious groups’ demographics – such as race/ethnicity, age, immigrant status, gender and sexual orientation – and their trends since 2007. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.

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