The more I learn about the new data in our 2020 Census, the more I feel convinced that the federal government has cheated my one-year-old grandson of his true identity. Because of the illogical and ...

I figured my enumerator job with the US Census was over in early October when my census-issued iPhone bleakly texted me: you have no census work today, you have no census work today, no cases for you.

About US is a forum to explore issues of race and identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. My face burned — whether with anger or shame, I wasn’t sure. In 1994, I stood outside human ...

“I’ll do my civic duty,” I thought, when the little Census Bureau post card arrived in the mail asking citizens if they’d like to help count every person in the country. Besides, I told myself it’ll ...

At 8:07 a.m., I started filling out my 2010 census form. At 8:20 a.m., I finished. But it's too important to be done in just 13 minutes, isn't it? After all, the U.S. Census Bureau spent a gazillion ...

I haven’t gotten my census form yet. This really worries me for a number of reasons. First of all, a lot of people I know (well, one, actually) have gotten theirs. Why have I been left out? I don’t ...

If this is the case, it means I share ancestry with Pope Leo XIV through my great-grandmother Eugenie Lemelle’s paternal lineage going back to where I started the story of my ancestry in this ...