67 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, Major League Baseball looks very different
As the number of black players has declined, baseball has seen a rising share of white players.
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As the number of black players has declined, baseball has seen a rising share of white players.
Asian-American voters lag whites and blacks in turnout in midterm elections, an analysis of Census Bureau data shows.
From 1996 to 2012, college enrollment among Hispanics ages 18 to 24 more than tripled (240% increase), outpacing increases among blacks (72%) and whites (12%).
Sixty years after the historic Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, schools are more integrated but white students are significantly less likely than minorities to attend diverse schools.
Hispanics have voted in record numbers in recent years, but their turnout rate continues to lag behind whites and blacks, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census data.
There are several issues that consistently rank higher on the list than immigration.
President Obama today plans to commemorate the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law 50 years ago this summer, at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Tex. The historic legislation sought equal access to employment opportunity, public accommodations, public education and voting rights. A poll conducted six years after the landmark […]
In 1960, 37% of households included a married couple raising their own children. More than a half-century later, just 16% of households look like that.
The slowdown in growth of the Hispanic foreign-born population coincides with a decline in Mexican migration to the U.S.
Many communities, including Hispanics, Arabs and people of mixed race, have said they’re unsure of how to identify themselves on census forms.
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