• The proportion of people of color in the United States has increased steadily over recent decades, particularly in states with large Latinx populations like California and New Mexico.
• The Latinx population has grown the most dramatically, from 6 percent in 1980 to 19 percent in 2020. Latinx people are projected to make up 25 percent of the US population by 2050.
• The South continues to have the highest proportion of Black residents, while Western and Southwestern states have the highest proportions of Latinx and Asian and Pacific Islander residents.
   

The United States' proportion of people of color has grown dramatically in the 21st century as population growth is increasingly driven by people of color and immigrants. Communities of color, especially Asian American and Latinx communities, are now growing more rapidly than White populations. Additionally, immigration is projected to be the primary contributor to population growth by 2030. While most U.S. immigrants were born in Europe during the 20th century, this generation of immigrants are predominantly born in the Americas and Asia.

• Foster racial equity in governance.
• Build multiracial alliances, coalitions, and movements to advance policy change, including pro-immigrant policies.
• Dismantle barriers and build pathways to economic opportunity for boys and men of color.
• Include immigrants by ensuring access to health care, driver's licenses, in-state tuition, and municipal ID cards regardless of immigration status.
• Enact strong language access policies requiring interpretation and translation services for English-language learners and facilitate naturalization among green-card holders.
• Limit the participation of local law enforcement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and support community-led alternatives to policing and invest-divest strategies in communities of color.
• Strengthen democracy by increasing participation of marginalized groups, expanding voting rights (and preventing rollback), and building leadership development pipelines.
• At the federal level, end the lifetime ban on public benefits for people with criminal records, ensure that releasees from federal prison receive essential identification documents and access to transitional services to support reentry, and enact all-mail elections, automatic voter registration, and extended voting periods.

• Reports: Racial Equity in Our Cities; Promising Practices and Lessons from Local Communities; Providing Identification to Unauthorized Immigrants; Improved Race and Ethnicity Measures Reveal U.S. Population Is Much More Multiracial; Growing Racial Diversity in Rural America: Results from the 2020 Census; Why a MENA Category Matters; State of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the US; A Profile of the US Latino Population, 2000-2020
• Data: DiversityDataKids.org; Black Census Project; AAPI Data; Latino Data Hub; Our Changing Population: United States