Magazines, blogs and websites have been known to pay a pretty penny to get the first, exclusive pictures of a celebrity’s newborn. But more often than not, these publications aren’t chasing after celebrity babies of color.

With the arrival of  Beyonce and Jay-Z’ bundle, all of that is about the change. But before Ms. Blue gets her first spread, check out the brown babies who paved the way for her at Black Enterprise.com. 

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(AP) — For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies.  Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women — mostly single mothers — now exceeds African-American households with married couples, a sign of declining U.S. marriages overall but also of continuing challenges for black youths without involved fathers.  The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer that provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and householder relationships.  Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.

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