African-Americans in the 1990s

Ms. Mann, a staff member of the Population Reference Bureau, a non-profit private research institution that gathers and interprets demographic information, briefed reporters in the National Press Club on the Bureau's report on African-Americans in the 1990's. The report assembled census information on African-Americans to create a demographic portrait of African-Americans. The report found, among other findings, that 30 million blacks currently make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, with a greater percentage living in the South and in cities than other ethnic groups in America. The report also found the fertility rates of single black women rising at a faster rate than other segments of the population, and blacks continue to have a lower life expectancy rate than the average American.