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This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American. The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
According to the 2000 Census, the rate of college diploma acquisition is highest among Egyptian Americans at 59.7 percent, followed closely by Nigerian Americans at 58.6 percent. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult white Americans and 3 ...
African Languages Spoken in American Households [45] As of 2013, the World Bank estimated that 252,172 Nigerian migrants live in the US. This is 23% of all Nigerian migrants, the most of any destination country. Nigerian migrants represent 0.5% of all migrants in the US, the 32nd highest of all US source countries. [46]
Scholars and demographers The post Black Americans comprise highest percentage of 1 million COVID ‘excess deaths’ in U.S. appeared first on TheGrio. Last week, the United States hit one ...
The US state/territory with the highest percentage of African Americans is the US Virgin Islands (76% African American as of 2010). [25] Most African Americans are the direct descendants of captives from West Africa, who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States. [76]
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
The African diaspora in the Americas refers to the people born in the Americas with partial, predominant, or complete sub-Saharan African ancestry. Many are descendants of persons enslaved in Africa and transferred to the Americas by Europeans, then forced to work mostly in European-owned mines and plantations, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.