African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any...

The United States House of Representatives has had 157 elected African-American members, of whom 151 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6...

assigned to African Americans. Minstrel shows became a popular form of theater during the nineteenth century, which portrayed African Americans in stereotypical...

in the Americas.[citation needed] The immigration of African Americans, West Indians, and Black Britons to Africa occurred mainly during the late 18th...

From the first United States Congress in 1789 through the 116th Congress in 2020, 162 African Americans served in Congress. Meanwhile, the total number...

nor are all of its speakers African American. As with most English varieties spoken by African Americans, African-American Vernacular English shares a...

population group in the Atlanta metropolitan area, encompassing both those of African-American ancestry as well as those of recent Caribbean or African origin....

The representation of African Americans in speech, writing, still or moving pictures has been a major concern in mainstream American culture and a component...

The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable...

The history of African Americans in Ghana goes back to individuals such as American civil rights activist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), who...