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Afro-American
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Af·ro-A·mer·i·can (fr--mr-kn)
n.
A Black American of African ancestry; an African American.

Afro-A·meri·can adj.

Afro-American
n & adj
another word for African-American
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Afro-AmericanAfro-American - an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
American - a native or inhabitant of the United States
Adj.1.Afro-AmericanAfro-American - pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry; "Afro-American culture"; "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American"
black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
Translations
Afro-American [ˌæfrəʊəˈmerɪkən]
A. ADJafroamericano
B. Nafroamericano/a m/f
Afro-American [ˈæfrəʊəˈmɛrɪkən] adj & nafroamericano/a


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In the '60s and '70s Brown spoke out for black entrepreneurship and for strong black communities, for "the need for Afro-Americans to own things if we were ever going to have any real equality.
With a long view of the African American struggle over many decades and generations, Clarke felt that the "plight of the Africans still fighting to throw off the yoke of colonialism and the plight of Afro-Americans, still waiting for a rich, strong and boastful nation to redeem the promise of freedom and citizenship became one and the same" at these demonstrations.
When have Afro-Americans truly had the means of production and distribution over this music-the record companies and distributors?
 
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