A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
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(US, broadly, proscribed, sometimes, offensive) Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
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(of a person) Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.
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