black people

Black is a racial classification of people, a skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion. Often in countries with socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as darker-skinned in contrast to other populations. It is most commonly used for people of African ancestry, Indigenous Australians, Melanesians, and Negritos, though it has been applied in many contexts to o