COMMENTS: The Bride Wore Black
The Pew Research Center picked up publicity from ABC's Linsey Davis for its crunching of Census Bureau data to coincide with the June wedding season. Pew found that one knot out of every six nowadays is tied by a biracial couple, "which makes us one of the most colorblind countries when it comes to saying I Do, second only to Brazil." Davis picked up on one nugget that has the nickname The Black Girl Curse: while 22% of today's African-American grooms marry outside their race, only 9% of African-American brides do.
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