Why I’m Trying to Stop Using the Term ‘Black’

African American or ‘of African descent’ is the more accurate designation

Photo by Benjamin Dada on Unsplash

In my almost 50 years of existence, I’ve seen several versions of terms used to describe African people or people of African descent.

When I was growing up in Britain in the 1970s, it was common to refer to Afro-Caribbean people as…