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Making Sense of the 2020 Census
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Making Sense of the 2020 Census

Logan James Spelman, College NAACPApril 9, 2020

According to the Census Bureau post-enumeration survey, 800,000 African Americans went uncounted. What does this mean? It means once again, the voice of African Americans was denied. Many programs that impact African Americans are based in whole or part on data derived from the Census. History proves the disenfranchisement of Black people socially, politically and financially. Another ten years cannot pass before we realize how vital the United States Census is to the United States democracy.

Black Organizations Use Power of Social Media to Launch #BlackCensusWeek and Boost Black Census Count
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Black Organizations Use Power of Social Media to Launch #BlackCensusWeek and Boost Black Census Count

Olivia Jade Khoury, Contributing WriterApril 2, 2020

Our nation’s Decennial Census has arrived and with the overarching pandemic of COVID-19, the count for marginalized and historically undercounted populations is more important now than ever before. The NAACP, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s Unity Diaspora Coalition, the National Urban League’s Black Census Roundtable along with countless other organizations worked together to seize the moment as an opportunity to ensure a fair and accurate count for African-American citizens through Black Census Week, a week-long virtual activity to incite awareness around the Census and the importance to fill it out in its entirety.