Published: April 1, 1995

Exploding Myths

Census Bureau officials describe the reports as offering the most comprehensive statistical portrait of the nation's black population since the 1970s. One document contains more than 300 pages of data taken from the 1990 U.S. Census. The other, an analysis of federal surveys of about 60,000 households in March of 1993 and '94, is the bureau's first report comparing the black population with...