Some 24 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws against intermarriage were unconstitutional, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that 5 percent of all American marriages are now mixed-race marriages. There are now 1.5 million mixed-race marriages, a tenfold increase since 1960. Nearly one quarter of all mixed-race marriages are in California. Another quarter of all mixed-race marriages are in the states of Texas, New York, and Florida. Asians and Hispanics are the most likely ethnic groups to marry a person from another group.
Black men are nearly twice as likely as black women to marry outside their race.
This was more than double the rate for whites. Overall, some 44 million people had direct contact with police and force was used or threatened 422,000 times. The vast majority of instances where force was used was on young men. At least 75 insurance companies are under investigation nationwide for the lingering effects of race discrimination in the setting of premiums for African Americans in policies sold before the mid-1960s. Some companies are reported to have hundreds of thousands of black policyholders who may be owed reimbursements.