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The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or states in those specific years). [citation needed]
The following is a breakdown by race for unwed births: 17% Asian, 29% White, 53% Hispanics (of any race), 66% Native Americans, and 72% Black American. [96] According to the CDC, in 2020, there were at least, 1,461,121 births to unmarried women. In 2020, 40.5% of births were to unmarried women.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
In 2020, African American voters made up about 13% of the U.S. electorate, with a record 30 million eligible to vote that year, according to Black Men Vote, another organization dedicated to ...
A similar upward trend of Black men backing Harris is also reflected in a recent survey released by Alliance for Black Equality, a PAC backed by data from the 2040 Strategy Group.
A new survey of high schoolers in the class of 2023 showed a sizable gap between Latino, Black and male students who want to go to college compared to those who think they’ll go.
In 2016 just under half (48%) of black women had never been married which is an increase from 44% in 2008 and 42.7% in 2005. 52% of black men had never been married. Also, 15% percent of black men were married to non-black women which is up from 11% in 2010. Black women were the least likely to marry non-black men at only 7% in 2017. [28]
Black men have shorter lifespans than any other group in the US besides Native American men. [196] Black people have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension than the US average. [194] For adult Black men, the rate of obesity was 31.6% in 2010. [197] For adult Black women, the rate of obesity was 41.2% in 2010. [197]