Synonyms for African-American
ˈæf rɪ kən əˈmɛr ɪ kənafrican-amer·i·can

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1. African-Americanadjective

   American and black.

   Synonyms:
   black, Afro-Usonian, person of color, colored, Negro, Afro-American

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1. African-American, African American, Afro-American, Black Americanadjective

   an American whose ancestors were born in Africa

   Antonyms:
   white

2. African-American, Afro-Americanadjective

   pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry

   "Afro-American culture"; "many black people preferred to be called African-American or Afro-American"

   Antonyms:
   white

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1. List of paraphrases for "african-american":

   afro-american

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1. Bernie Sanders:

   And we know what that's about. That's trying to win support from the African-American community where the President is enormously popular.

2. Delman Coates:

   That concerned a lot of people in the African American community, (the) religious community in particular, so this was an opportunity for us to talk substantively about policy issues affecting the populations we serve. I'm not so certain that was the focus of the Trump meeting.

3. President Barack Obama:

   There's no excuse for the kind of violence ... It is counterproductive, since Ferguson ... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals -- primarily African-American, often poor -- in ways that have raised troubling questions.

4. Margaret Boddie:

   Health literacy is a big issue in the older African American population because of how people were educated when they were young, my maternal grandmother, she had a third-grade education. My grandfather, he made it to the fifth grade. For many people, understanding the information that's put out, especially when it changes so often and people don't really understand why, is a challenge.

5. Winsome Sears:

   If Critical Race Theory means that telling a child that once you emerge from the womb you are a racist and a colonizer and whatever else, that's not going to be good. Critical Race Theory's going to create morale problems for everybody, if we're going to teach about African American history, why just keep Critical Race Theory to one month ? Let's teach Critical Race Theory throughout. Let's talk about these things. You can't escape history. Let's talk about the good, the bad and the ugly.