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  2. Afro–Latin Americans - Wikipedia

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    Black people in Panama are the descendants of West African slaves as well as black people from Caribbean islands who arrived in the early 1900s for the construction of the Panama Canal. [101] The Afro Colonials are the group of Hispanics, while the Antillanos are those of West Indian descent. Famous Afro-Panamanians include boxer Eusebio Pedroza.

  3. African diaspora in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Ethnic groups in Central America - Wikipedia

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    Central America is a subregion of the Americas [1] formed by six Latin American countries and one (officially) Anglo-American country, Belize.As an isthmus it connects South America with the remainder of mainland North America, and comprises the following countries (from north to south): Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

  5. African diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Black African population in the Americas (1901). African Americans – There are an estimated 43 million people of black African descent in the United States. Afro-Latin Americans – An estimation from the Pew Research Center calculates about 100 million people of African descent living in Latin America. [111]

  6. Afro-Guatemalans - Wikipedia

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    The Garífuna people originated with the arrival of slaves from West Africa. Who arrived on the shores of the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent around 1635. Approximately 200 years later the descendants living on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, arrived in Central America. They settled in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Nicaragua.

  7. Afro-Mexicans - Wikipedia

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    This population includes Afro-descended people from neighboring English, French, and Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean and Central America, descendants of enslaved Africans in Mexico [4] and those from the Deep South during Slavery in the United States, and to a lesser extent recent migrants directly from Africa. Today, there are ...

  8. Opinion - A new path forward for Black America - AOL

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    Increasingly, Black voters are focused on core issues: economic opportunity, community safety, educational access, and the preservation of strong, foundational values.

  9. Afro-Hondurans - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population to be around 1-2%. [2] [3] [4] They descended from: enslaved Africans by the Spanish, as well as those who were enslaved from the West Indies and identify as Creole peoples, and the Garifuna who descend from exiled zambo Maroons from Saint ...