A person who is of African or African Caribbean heritage. Black can be both an identity and can also be used politically or as an organizing or solidarity identity drawing together people of different racialized identities in a common struggle. Black should be capitalized. Previously, other ethnic identities have been recognized with capital letters, e.g. Indigenous, Asian American, but ‘Black’ has not been, even though it is an identity in its own right.
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