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Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.. "There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group who, as defined by the United States census, consists of Americans who have ancestry from "any of the Black racial groups of Africa ". [3]. The term African American (sometimes used with a hyphen and occasionally without) is habitually used to describe ethnicity while Black often describes race. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of African American is an American of African and especially of Black African descent.