“You can’t underestimate the emotional impact this has on people. It’s how we conceive ourselves as a society. … You are seeing a desire for people to want to self-identify and be reflected in data so they can tell their own stories.” Meeta Anand, senior director for Census & Data Equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, U.S. Census changes how it identifies people by race and ethnicity, creates Middle Eastern category for first time [PBS]