The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.

Only one race could be selected, and people also had to state whether they were 'Hispanic or Latino', or not. In this year's census, a sixth racial category called 'Other Race' will be added ...

such as those in the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act,” it says on the census website. For decades, the race category has had four broad categories: white, black, Native American and ...