This 2020 census business is getting messyâand tricky. Not only are at least a dozen states and the NAACP suing the Trump administration over it, but for the very first time, the upcoming count will also ask those who identify as âblackâ or âwhiteâ to further expound on their specific country of origin or ethnicity.
Voting and immigration-rights advocates are alarmed over Donald Trumpâs leading pick to head the U.S. Census Bureau: a conservative college professor with no government experience who literally wrote a book expounding on the dangers of competitive elections.
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of folks, there are more than 10,000 black elected officials nationwide on the local, state and federal levels. Even less known is the fact that 700 of them are state legislators: state representatives, delegates and state senators, many congregating in state capitals in nearly all theâŠ
