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“I’m starting to really hate the cold,” my wife said, and not for the first time. The sort of thing Midwesterners say after spring dangles a couple of delightful days in our field of vision — 60, 65, even 70 degrees — then rudely slaps us across the face with a wet sock of miserable, […]
A new report by Statistics Canada shows the Peterborough area had the highest rates of police-reported hate crime among census metropolitan areas (CMA) in 2020. Entitled “Police-reported hate crime in 2020,” the report states the Peterborough region had 19.4 hate crimes per 100,000 population. The Peterborough CMA consists of the city, Selwyn Township . . […]
The following is a cross-post from the U.S. Census Bureau To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week (then called “Negro History Week”) nearly a century ago. The event was first celebrated during the second week of February 1926, […]
Topline Americans became more racially diverse and earned more money in almost every state, from 2016 to 2020 according to the Census Bureau’s newly released American Community Survey (ACS), which aims to offer a more detailed picture of racial and ethnic demographics with newly refined survey questions. Convention attendees wave flags at the FleetCenter in […]
While Crockett’s Black residents largely escaped the worst of the Jim Crow era’s reign of terror, Johnson was raised in a divided town. Black people lived west of Fourth Street, White people east, and what one could achieve in life was defined by that color line, even for a proud military veteran like Johnson. Story […]
CROMWELL, CT – 6.20.2013 – metlife-blimp-travelers-championship – This photograph of the Hartford skyline taken from the MetLife blimp looks to the west from above the Connecticut River. The MetLife blimp provides video for the PGA tour and marketing for the nation’s largest life insurer. PATRICK RAYCRAFT | praycraft@courant.com ORG XMIT: B583007807Z.1 (Patrick Raycraft / The […]
CHICAGO — A longtime area staple with its wagon wheel décor and “Roy Rogers ribeye,” the Ranch Steak House is fighting to reopen as one of the last sit-down restaurants in the once-flourishing Black Chicago neighborhood of Roseland. About 13 miles away, near Indiana, Christopher Cain and his wife, Deja Cousins-Cain, sought a new market for […]
Prof. O’Hara said the gusher of public and available data opens new avenues to a far more accurate census, but only if the numbers can be proven accurate and the Census Bureau can navigate the tricky boundary between tapping private research and issuing public statistics. “There is no significant buy-in yet” to major changes in […]
The census overcounted white and Asian Americans. March 11, 2022, 7:11 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article The U.S. Census Bureau said it undercounted Black, Latino and Native American residents in its 2020 national population count, according to a survey released Thursday. Latinos were undercounted at a rate of […]
The 2020 census missed an unexpectedly small percentage of the total U.S. population given the unprecedented challenges it faced, but Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were overlooked at higher rates than a decade ago, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The percentage of people overlooked during the 2020 census was much higher for some […]