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Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.16% of the population. There were 399 households, out of which 27.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.4% were married couples living together, 16.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.6% were non-families. 35.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20 ...
African Americans make up nearly a quarter of North Carolina's population. The number of middle-class blacks has increased since the 1970s. African Americans are concentrated in the state's eastern Coastal Plain and in parts of the Piedmont Crescent, where they had historically worked and where the most new job opportunities have been. African ...
Considering only those who marked "black" and no other race in combination, as in the first table, the percentage was 12.4% in 2020, down from 12.6% in 2010. [1] Considering those who marked "black" and any other race in combination, as in the second table, the percentage increased from 13.6% to 14.2%.
The long-stalled monument to African Americans on the Capitol grounds receives funding in the NC Senate budget proposal. After years on hold, latest NC budget plan funds African Americans monument ...
The lawsuit alleges that districts 1, 6, 12 and 14 — which span Eastern North Carolina, the Triad, Mecklenburg County and more — are all racial gerrymanders and must be struck down.
At the time of the 2020 Census, there were 47.5 million Americans who were black (either alone or in combination), making up 14.2% of the U.S. population. State by state, the highest number of black Americans could be found in Texas (3.96 million), Florida (3.70 million), Georgia (3.54 million), New York (3.53 million), and California (2.83 ...
African-American North Carolinians or Black North Carolinians are residents of the state of North Carolina who are of African ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 22% of the state's population. [3] African enslaved people were brought to North Carolina during the slave trade. [4]
A century ago, the Spruce Pine Rioters marched Black workers out of NC’s Mitchell County at gunpoint, and an escapee went to the electric chair. A gruesome North Carolina riot remembered, and an ...