U.S. multiracial population is growing, nears 7 percent: survey
(Reuters) - The number of mixed-race people in the United States is on the rise, comprising about 7 percent of American adults, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Thursday.
This multiracial population is growing at a rate three times higher than the American population as a whole, the survey found, and comes at a time when the nation has a president, Barack Obama, whose mother was white and father was a black Kenyan. ...