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This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans.
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 ...
List of African-American activists; List of African-American actors; African Americans in foreign policy; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866; List of African-American singers; African-American Tony nominees and winners; List of African-American women in classical music; List of African-American women in STEM fields
OPINION: Despite America’s history of racism, there are some Black people who will always be beloved and respected by the American public. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and ...
African Americans, also known as Black Americans, formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial or ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. [3] [4] African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the US after White Americans. [5]
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...