The continent of Africa, the second largest on the globe, is bisected by the equator and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean. Roughly the shape of an inverted triangle—with a large bulge on its...

One of the earliest groups of immigrants to colonial North America was the Africans, the majority of whom had no choice but to immigrate. Forcibly taken from their homelands and loaded into slave ships that crossed the Atlantic, the African captives...

Although the vast majority of African Americans were slaves until 1865, the relatively small free black community that began to form during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries played a very important role in African American history. The...

African American AIDS associations in cities across the United States provide urgent health education, counseling, housing, financial, and other types of support to people affected by HIV/AIDS. They offer AIDS education and prevention resources to...

The Afro-American Press Association (AAPA) represented the various attempts to organize African American newspaper publishers during the later half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The AAPA sought to improve the black...

The National Association of African American Studies (NAAS) was founded by Lemuel Berry Jr. in 1993. NAAS is a scholarly organization that provides a forum for those who conduct research in black history and culture. It also serves as a medium for...

The International Association of African and American Black Business People (IAAABBP) was founded in 1965. William Bert Johnson served as president, and the association was located at several Detroit addresses. Established to encourage entrepreneurial...

In the U.S., a dramatic movement encompassing plays written by, for, and about blacks. The first known play by an American black was James Brown's King Shotaway (1823). After the Civil War, blacks began to perform in minstrel shows, and musicals...

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African Americans or black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.[3] In the United States the term is generally used for...