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African American From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the U.S. population of Americans of African ancestry. For the population of recent African origins, see African immigration to the United States. For the African diaspora throughout the Americas, see Afro-American peoples of the Americas. African American  Frederick Douglass?· Barack Obama?· Rosa ParksCondoleezza Rice?· M. L. King, Jr.?· Beyoncé KnowlesMalcolm X?· Oprah Winfrey?· Booker T. WashingtonMichael Jordan?· Harriet Tubman?· Muhammad Ali Total population African American 37,000,000 [1](~12% of the US population)Non-Hispanic Black36,701,103 [1]Black Hispanic884,947 [1] Regions with significant populations Throughout the Southern United States, parts of the Northeast, the Midwest, and California Languages American English?· African American Vernacular English?· recent immigrants and its children speak Caribbean English?· Spanish?· French?· Brazilian Portuguese?· Haitian Creole?· African languages Religion Majority: ProtestantismMinority: Catholicism?· Islam?· Judaism Related ethnic groups Other Afro-American peoples of the Americas(especially Anglophones) Americo-Liberian?· Sierra Leone Creole people Black British?· African Americans in France view · talk · edit African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.[2] In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most African Americans are the direct descendants of captive Africans who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States, although some are—or are descended from—immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American nations.[3] As an adjective, the term is usually written as African-American.[4] A