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African Americans in New York City, the Glossary

African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City, home to the largest urban African American population, and the world's largest Black population of any city outside Africa, by a significant margin.^[1]

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Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African American Day Parade

The African American Day Parade in Harlem is held every September, typically with participants from at least 12 states.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African Dorcas Association

The African Dorcas Association was a black women's community aid society founded in New York City in January 1828. African Americans in New York City and African Dorcas Association are African-American history in New York City.

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African Grove

The African Grove Theatre opened in New York City in 1821.

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African immigration to the United States

African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries.

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African-American Vernacular English

African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Al Sharpton

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Alonzo Smythe Yerby

Alonzo Yerby (October 14, 1921–February 16, 1994) was an American physician and academic who served as the Associate Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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American League of Colored Laborers

The American League of Colored Laborers was a short-lived labor union established in New York City in 1850. African Americans in New York City and American League of Colored Laborers are African-American history in New York City.

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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress.

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Antebellum South

The Antebellum South era (from before the war) was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

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Apothecary

Apothecary is an archaic English term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons and patients.

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Arthur Mitchell (dancer)

Arthur Mitchell (March 27, 1934 – September 19, 2018)Jennifer Dunning: The New York Times was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of ballet companies.

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ASAP Rocky

Rakim Athelaston Mayers (born October 3, 1988), known professionally as ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky), is an American rapper.

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Ashanti (singer)

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas-Haynes (born October 13, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedford–Stuyvesant, colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Belarusian Americans in New York City

New York City includes a sizeable Belarusian American population.

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

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Black church

The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.

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Black Hispanic and Latino Americans

Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Afro-Hispanics, Afro-Latinos, Black Hispanics, or Black Latinos, are classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget, and other U.S. government agencies as Black people living in the United States with ancestry in Latin America, Spain or Portugal and/or who speak Spanish, and/or Portuguese as either their first language or second language.

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Black Jews in New York City

Black Jews in New York City comprise one of the largest communities of Black Jews in the United States. African Americans in New York City and Black Jews in New York City are African-American history in New York City.

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Black Lives Matter art in New York City

Many artworks related to the Black Lives Matter movement were created in New York City, during local protests over the murder of George Floyd and other Black Americans.

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Black Lives Matter protests in New York City

New York City has been the site of many Black Lives Matter protests in response to incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.

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Black people

Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.

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BlackPast.org

BlackPast.org is a web-based reference center that is dedicated primarily to the understanding of African-American history and Afro-Caribbean history and the history of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry.

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Blockbusting

Blockbusting was a business practice in the United States in which real estate agents and building developers convinced residents in a particular area to sell their property at below-market prices.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Brooklyn Navy Yard (originally known as the New York Navy Yard) is a shipyard and industrial complex in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Caribbean English

Caribbean English (CE, CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America.

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Caribbean immigration to New York City

Caribbean immigration to New York City has been prevalent since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.

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Carl Hancock Rux

Carl Hancock Rux is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist, historian and social activist.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central Brooklyn

Central Brooklyn consists of several neighborhoods often grouped together because of their large populations of African Americans and Caribbean Americans.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.

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Charles Bennett Ray

Charles Bennett Ray (December 25, 1807 – August 15, 1886) was a prominent African-American minister and abolitionist who owned and edited the weekly newspaper The Colored American.

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Charles William Anderson

Charles William Anderson (April 28, 1866 – January 28, 1938) was a Republican Party political organizer who served as Collector of Revenue in New York City.

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Charlotte B. Ray

Charlotte B. Ray (née Charlotte Augusta Burroughs; 25 October 1891) was an American prominent pastor, suffragist, and abolitionist.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.

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Chinese people in the New York City metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Cicely Tyson

Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women.

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Cordelia Ray

Henrietta Cordelia Ray (August 30, 1852 – January 5, 1916) was an African American poet and teacher.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor.

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Cuban Spanish

Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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David Dinkins

David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

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Demographics of New York City

New York City is a large and ethnically diverse metropolis.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist.

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DMX

Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021), known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper and actor.

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Dominican Spanish

Dominican Spanish (español dominicano) is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic; and also among the Dominican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

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Dominicans in New York City

The city of New York includes a sizeable Dominican population.

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Dutch Americans in New York City

Dutch people have had a continuous presence in New York City for nearly 400 years, being the earliest European settlers.

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East Coast hip hop

East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s.

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Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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Edward G. Walker

Edward Garrison Walker (1830–1901), also Edwin Garrison Walker, was an American artisan in Boston who became an attorney; in 1861, he became one of the first black men to pass the Massachusetts bar.

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Eric Adams

Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer, currently serving as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022.

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Essence Atkins

Essence Uhura Atkins (born February 7, 1972) is an American actress.

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Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area

In the New York metropolitan area, Filipinos constitute one of the largest diasporas in the Western Hemisphere.

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Foxy Brown (rapper)

Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand (born September 6, 1978), better known by her stage name Foxy Brown, is an American rapper.

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Freedom's Journal

Freedom's Journal was the first African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. African Americans in New York City and Freedom's Journal are African-American history in New York City.

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Gabourey Sidibe

Gabourey Sidibe (born May 6, 1983) is an American actress.

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George T. Downing

George T. Downing (December 30, 1819 – July 21, 1903) was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights while building a successful career as a restaurateur in New York City; Newport, Rhode Island; and Washington, D.C. His father had been an oyster seller and caterer in Philadelphia and New York City, building a business that attracted wealthy white clients.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Grenada

Grenada (Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City. African Americans in New York City and Harlem are African-American history in New York City.

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Harlem riot of 1935

The Harlem riot of 1935 took place on March 19, 1935, in New York City, New York, in the United States.

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Harlem riot of 1943

A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy, an African American soldier; and rumors circulated that the soldier had been killed. African Americans in New York City and Harlem riot of 1943 are African-American history in New York City.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Hell's Kitchen, formerly also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Hispanics and Latinos in New York City

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, They were almost two-and-a-half million Hispanics (2,490,350) living in New York City in 2020.

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History of New York City

The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.

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History of slavery in New York (state)

The trafficking of enslaved Africans to what became New York began as part of the Dutch slave trade. African Americans in New York City and History of slavery in New York (state) are African-American history in New York City.

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History of the Jews in New York City

Jews comprise approximately 10% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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IND Fulton Street Line

The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, running from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens.

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Irish Americans in New York City

The Irish community is one of New York City's major and important ethnic groups, and has been a significant proportion of the city's population since the waves of immigration in the late 19th century.

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Irreligion in the United States

In the United States, between 4% and 15% of citizens demonstrated nonreligious attitudes and naturalistic worldviews, namely atheists or agnostics.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Italians in New York City

New York City has the largest population of Italian Americans in the United States as well as North America, many of whom inhabit ethnic enclaves in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

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Ja Rule

Jeffrey Bruce Atkins Sr. (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jamaican Americans

Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.

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Jamaican Patois

Jamaican Patois (locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno, Irish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Hindustani, Portuguese, Chinese, and German influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.

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Jamaicans in New York City

There are 38,980 foreign-born Jamaican people in New York City according to the 2009-2011 ACS.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

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James McCune Smith

James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author.

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James Newton Gloucester

The Reverend James Newton Gloucester was an African-American clergyman and businessman who was a supporter of abolitionist John Brown.

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James W. C. Pennington

James William Charles Pennington (– October 22, 1870) was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. African Americans in New York City and James W. C. Pennington are African-American history in New York City.

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Japanese in New York City

As of the 2000 Census, over half of the 37,279 people of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. state of New York lived in New York City.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.

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Koreans in the New York City metropolitan area

As of the 2011 American Community Survey, New York City is home to 100,000 ethnic Koreans, with two-thirds living in the borough of Queens.

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Land of the Blacks (Manhattan)

The Land of the Blacks (Erf van Negros, also Negro Frontier or Free Negro Lots) was a village settled by people of African descent north of the wall of New Amsterdam from about 1643 to 1716. African Americans in New York City and Land of the Blacks (Manhattan) are African-American history in New York City.

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Languages of Africa

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.

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Letitia James

Letitia Ann James (born October 18, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2019 as the Attorney General of New York (NYAG), having won the 2018 election to succeed Barbara Underwood.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Little Africa, Manhattan

Little Africa was an African American neighborhood in Greenwich Village and particularly the South Village, from the mid-19th century until about the turn of the 20th century. African Americans in New York City and Little Africa, Manhattan are African-American history in New York City.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock (I’i-zhinka) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.

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Marlon Wayans

Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Mary Pinkett

Mary Pinkett (née Glover) (September 8, 1926 – December 4, 2003) served in the New York City Council from 1974 to 2001, representing the 28th and 35th districts.

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Mary Simpson (house servant)

Mary Simpson (c.1752-1758, in Virginia – March 18, 1836 in New York, New York) was an African-American woman who claimed to be a former slave of George Washington.

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Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College is a public college in New York City.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, and is scheduled to compete once again in 2024.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorised by a church or other religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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New York City Council

The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City in the United States.

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New York City English

New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding metropolitan area.

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New York City Fire Department

The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the full-service fire department of New York City, serving all five boroughs.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.

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New York City Public Advocate

The office of New York City Public Advocate (President of the City Council) is a citywide elected position in New York City, which is first in line to succeed the mayor.

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New York Herald

The New York Herald was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924.

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New York Latino English

The English language as primarily spoken by Hispanic Americans on the East Coast of the United States demonstrates considerable influence from New York City English and African-American Vernacular English, with certain additional features borrowed from the Spanish language.

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New York Penn Station

Pennsylvania Station (also known as New York Penn Station or simply Penn Station) is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday.

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Nicki Minaj

Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (Maraj; born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born rapper and singer based in the United States.

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North Bronx

The North Bronx is the northern section of the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a public speaker, especially one who is eloquent or skilled.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Philip A. Payton Jr.

Philip Anthony Payton Jr. (February 27, 1876 – August 1917) was an African-American real estate entrepreneur, known as the "Father of Harlem", due to his work renting properties in Harlem, New York City, to African Americans.

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Pop Smoke

Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 – February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper.

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Puerto Rican Spanish

Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere.

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Puerto Ricans in New York City

Puerto Ricans have both immigrated and migrated to New York City.

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Queens

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Real estate agent

Real estate agents and real estate brokers are people who represents sellers or buyers of real estate or real property.

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Robert O. Lowery

Robert Oliver Lowery (April 20, 1916 – July 24, 2001) was sworn in as the 21st New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor John V. Lindsay on January 1, 1966, and held that position until his resignation on September 29, 1973. African Americans in New York City and Robert O. Lowery are African-American history in New York City.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist.

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Russian Americans in New York City

New York City is home to the largest Russian or Russophone population in the Western Hemisphere.

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Samuel J. Battle

Samuel Jesse Battle (January 16, 1883 – August 7, 1966) was an American police officer and one of the first African-American New York City Police Department officers, sworn in on March 6, 1911.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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San Juan Hill, Manhattan

San Juan Hill was a community in what is now the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. African Americans in New York City and San Juan Hill, Manhattan are African-American history in New York City.

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Sanaa Lathan

Sanaa McCoy Lathan (born September 19, 1971) is an American actress.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide.

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Seneca Village

Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. African Americans in New York City and Seneca Village are African-American history in New York City.

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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Anita Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.

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Sleepy Hallow

Tegan Joshua Anthony Chambers (born December 20, 1999), known professionally as Sleepy Hallow, is an American rapper who specializes in Brooklyn drill.

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In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.

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Social isolation is a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Spanish language in the United States

Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.

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Speculation

In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable shortly.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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Syrian Americans in New York City

The city of New York City includes a large Syrian population.

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Tenderloin, Manhattan

The Tenderloin was an entertainment and red-light district in the heart of the New York City borough of Manhattan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. African Americans in New York City and Tenderloin, Manhattan are African-American history in New York City.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Rights of All

The Rights of All (May 1829–1830) was an African American abolitionist newspaper, founded in New York City by Samuel Cornish, a black Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist.

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Theodore S. Wright

Theodore Sedgwick Wright (1797–1847), sometimes Theodore Sedgewick Wright, was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor. African Americans in New York City and Theodore S. Wright are African-American history in New York City.

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Thomas Commeraw

Thomas W. Commeraw (–1823), also known erroneously as Thomas H. Commereau, was an early 19th century African-American potter and businessman.

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Todd Duncan

Robert Todd Duncan (February 12, 1903 – February 28, 1998) was an American baritone opera singer and actor.

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Tracy Morgan

Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_New_York_City

Also known as African Americans in the New York City metropolitan region, African immigration to New York City, African-Americans in New York City, Black people in New York City.

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