African Americans
Ethnic and cultural group in the United States
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African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group, who as defined by the United States census, consists of Americans who have "origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa". African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the US after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States.
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