The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.

A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American.

Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

A term (now considered pejorative) used to describe Black people. Africans are called 'negroes' in many documents from the period of slavery.

a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

Sociological term referring to any person whose ancestors are of African descent.

(from Spanish and Portuguese) black; (from Latin-Niger); pertaining to the dark-skinned peoples and descendants of central and southern Africa.

A person belonging to a dark-skinned race; another name for African-Americans, used in the 19th century and early 20th century. Since the 1960s, the terms Black and African-American have replaced the word Negro.

See Black.

An often offensive term used to refer to an African American person.

Negro means "black" in Spanish and Portuguese (Latin: niger = "black").