Census to stop using 'Negro' in surveys

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / HTRNEWS.COM

WASHINGTON — After more than a century, the U.S. Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys.

Instead of the term that came into use during the era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels “black” or “African-American.”

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