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Historically, many African American communities did not seek counseling because religion was a part of the family values. [219] African American who have a faith background are more likely to seek prayer as a coping mechanism for mental issues rather than seeking professional mental health services. [218]
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [50] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans.
The United States is the third most populous country in the world, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. [19] The Census Bureau showed a population increase of 0.4% for the twelve-month period ending in July 2022, [20] below the world estimated annual rate of 1.03%, in 2021. [21]
2 African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) Toggle African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) subsection 2.1 Free blacks as a percentage out of the total black population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860
African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
In 2016, one in 13 African-Americans of voting age was disenfranchised, more than four times greater than that of non-African-Americans. Over 7.4% of adult African-Americans were disenfranchised compared to 1.8% of non-African-Americans.