You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Latinos Now Largest Minority Group in US

HeadlineJun 19, 2003

The Census Bureau yesterday announced that Latinos are now the nation’s largest minority group. According to the census the nation’s Latino population in July 2002 was 38.8 million, about half a million larger than the African American population.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top