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Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. [8] [9] While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African American, the majority of first-generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin.
Smith said they wanted the name to mean something to African-American women and that "it was a way of talking about ourselves being on a continuum of Black struggle, of Black women's struggle". [82] The Combahee River Collective opposed the practice of lesbian separatism , considering that, in practice, separatists focused exclusively on sexist ...
The 2003 Maputo Protocol on women's rights in Africa set the continental standard for progressive expansion of women's rights. It guarantees comprehensive rights to women, including the right to participate in the political process, social and political equality with men, autonomy in their reproductive health decisions, and an end to female genital mutilation (FGM).
The 15-member body now has the most African Americans (eight), the most women (six) and the most openly LGBTQ members (two) in its history. Despite these new majorities, the council did not cross ...
Lighter skinned (African descendant Americans) are usually "more mixed" than the average African American, with the white ancestors sometimes being several generations back, which gives them a multiracial phenotype. [134] [135] [136] Some of these lighter African Americans have abandoned the black identity and started to identify as multiracial ...
In a 2012 survey of 120,000 adults, African Americans were more likely to self-identify as LGBT than all other racial or ethnic groups in the United States. According to the data, 4.6% of African Americans identify as LGBT compared with 3.4% of the population overall.
Despite the recent criticism of gender-neutral language in the abortion rights movement, a poll of more than 10,000 Americans published by the Pew Research Center last month found that women ...
African-American women are degraded and referred to as “bitches” and “hoes” in rap music. [96] African-American women are over-sexualized in modern hip hop music videos and are portrayed as sexual objects for rappers. [97] Over-sexualization of African American women in rap music videos may have health implications for viewers of such ...