The following is a list of African-American United States presidential and vice-presidential nominees and candidates for nomination. Nominees are candidates nominated or otherwise selected by political parties for particular offices. Listed are those African-Americans who achieved ballot access for the national election in at least one state.They may have won the …

African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom's Journal in 1827. During the antebellum South, other African-American newspapers sprang forth, such …

Stereotypes and media depictions; Blackface; Criminal stereotypes; Hollywood; Magical Negro; Minstrel show United States portal; Category; Index; African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, …

The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the president of the United States, has had 25 permanent African-American members serving as vice president or head of one of the federal executive departments and 10 African-American as cabinet-level officials, which can differ under each president. Of that number, one African-American was …

Stereotypes about African Americans are misleading beliefs about the culture of people of African descent residing in the United States, largely connected to the racism and discrimination faced by African Americans.These beliefs have evolved within American society dating back to the slavery of black people during the colonial era.. The first major display of stereotypes …

The United States House of Representatives has had 156 elected African-American members, of whom 150 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6 have been delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of …

African-American history began with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. ... Proponents of Black history believe that it promotes diversity, develops self-esteem, and corrects myths and stereotypes. Opponents of it argue that such curricula are dishonest, divisive, and lack academic credibility and rigor. In 2021, College Board announced …

Stereotypes and media depictions; Blackface; Criminal stereotypes; Hollywood; Magical Negro; Minstrel show ... List of African-American jurists; External links. Article III African-American Judges by President This page was last edited on 24 October 2022, at 16:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms ...

African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, / ˈ ɑː v eɪ, æ v /), also referred to as Black (Vernacular) English, Black English Vernacular, or occasionally Ebonics (a colloquial, controversial term), is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.. Having its …

Overall, 24 percent of Black and African American people have a bachelor’s degree or higher as of 2017. More than 1 in 5 Black and African American people in the U.S. lived in poverty as of 2018. Women are the heads of household in roughly 30 percent of Black and African American homes, compared to 9 percent of white homes.