Recent surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths has hit Black men the hardest
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
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Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
Kamala Harris embodies trends that have been unfolding over recent decades. As a result, many Americans can see themselves in her story.
In 2020, Afro-Latino Americans made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population.
Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.
One-in-seven U.S. infants were multiracial or multiethnic in 2015, nearly triple the share in 1980.
Conducted February-April 2015 | File Release Date: 23 January 2017
Racial identity is far from a straightforward concept, and when multiple strands of identity come together this has the potential to increase the complexity.
To get a sense of how the country’s racial demographics are changing, take a look at the differences between mixed-race Americans old and young.
The number of multiracial Americans is growing nationwide, but in Hawaii, it’s nothing new. The Rainbow state – with its history of attracting immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world to work as farm laborers – stands far above the rest, with nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identifying as multiracial.
Is race purely about the races in your family tree? Our new survey of multiracial adults suggests there’s more to racial identity that goes beyond one’s ancestry.
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