African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.[3][4] African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans.[5] The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States
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