Mixed-race Marriages On Rise

More Americans are marrying outside of their racial groups, Census data show. University of Michigan researchers compared the number of interracial marriages listed in the 2013 Census with earlier decades. They found that 23 percent of black men between the ages of 25 and 34 in 2013 were married to someone of another race, compared with less than 8 percent in the 1990s and '2000s. Among white men in the same category, about 14 percent were married to someone of another race, compared..