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African Americans or Black Americans, formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial or ethnic group consisting of people who self-identity as having origins from Sub-Saharan Africa. They constitute the country's second largest racial group after White Americans. [3]
African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force to work in the New World. Their rights were severely limited, and they were long denied a rightful share in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States.
U.S. Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference. By Cydney Adams. June 18, 2020 / 3:20 PM EDT / CBS News. Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations...
In the first 200 years that black people were in the United States, they primarily identified themselves by their specific ethnic group (closely allied to language) and not by skin color. Individuals identified themselves, for example, as Ashanti, Igbo, Bakongo, or Wolof.
The Black population has grown by more than 10 million since 2000, when 36.2 million of the U.S. population identified as Black, marking a 32% increase over roughly two decades. In 2022, there were 5.1 million foreign-born Black Americans, about 11% of the U.S. Black population.
Black is a member of dark-skinned people especially one of African ancestry. The definition of African American is an American of African, and especially of Black African descent.
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
