Our cultural heritage is our identity.

Black ethnicity

Black Americans who are Descendants of American Chattel Slaves and Freedmen are incomparable. There are no people groups on this earth with an experience as unique and storied as ours. We are often imitated yet never duplicated. They want our culture but not our struggle. We have endured nearly five hundred years of ethnocide/genocide/ humanocide, and yet still we rise! Our ethnicity is an amalgamation. It makes us who we are. It's jazz, blues, and hip hop. It's greens, candied yams, and dressing. It's handbone, double Dutch, and hoops. It's a fade, a silk press, and plaits. It's throwin' snake eyes, throwin' bones, and throwin' down. It's all that jawn AND a bag of chips!

WE ALL WE GOT.

This is who they think we are

A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as “Haitian” or “Negro” can be used in addition to “Black or African American.

What we did

This is who we really are

Those who descended from the formerly enslaved people in the United States of America and who were classified as Black, Colored, Negro, or Mulatto in the United States of America prior to 1880.

Heritage Conservation

According to a January 27, 2023 report, the US Office of Management and Budget has requested public comment on how we will be demographically identified on the next US Census. Please answer this short survey, and indicate if you agree with the new racial/ethnic options.