Many social analysts have argued that Christianity and the Bible lend themselves to diverse and often conflicting interpretations. This view is borne out in the case of race. Preachers of racial tolerance and those who advocate racial extremism have cited the Bible as a source of their be...

Black Americans Black Americans are those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, coloured, Negro, Afro-American, and African-American, as well as black. The...