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It's a question the federal government asks us every 10 years at census time. But in the year 2000, that was a new question for the residents of Puerto Rico. For half a century before then, the US territory's government had used its own, local census questionnaire – which did not ask about race. In this episode of Code Switch, they dive in to try to understand why, on an island shaped by its African heritage and a long history of racial mixture, a vast majority of people tell the Census Bureau that they are white alone.
Civil rights and religious leaders urge African Americans to defy governors' efforts to reopen businesses | CNN Politics
A coalition of prominent civil rights and black religious leaders is pushing back on governors' efforts to jump-start state economies and wants black churches and businesses to remain closed until there's evidence the coronavirus outbreak is easing.
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