AdvertisementNo More 'Negro' For Census Bureau Forms And SurveysFebruary 25, 2013Tanya Ballard BrownfacebookEmailQuestion 9 on the first page of the 2010 Census form. After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in its surveys. Instead of the term, which was popularized during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use "black" or "African-American." (AP)