#MAGA #USA #Africa An estimated 48.3 million people in the U.S. identified as Black in 2023. The Black population has grown by more than 12 million since 2000, up from 36.2 million – a 33% increase over roughly two decades. In 2023, more than 5 million Black Americans were foreign born, about 11% of the U.S. Black population https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
List of U.S. cities with large Black populations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Black_populations
Irish immigration to America in the 1800s exploded, especially after the Great Famine (1845-1852), bringing millions fleeing starvation, transforming cities like Boston, and heavily populating labor forces for canals/railroads, though they faced intense anti-Catholic prejudice and nativism https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Folklife-Collections/Folklife-Collections-List-(1)/Other/Emigration/Irish-Emigration-to-America
New York City has the largest total number of Black residents in the U.S., but cities like Jackson, Mississippi, Detroit, Michigan, and South Fulton, Georgia, have the highest percentages, with Black people forming over 80% of their populations. While New York leads in raw numbers (over 1.9 million in 2020), other major cities like Chicago, Atlanta, and Houston also have large Black communities, though often a smaller proportion of their total population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Black_populations
Bengal famine of 1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
The First Christians in India: Thomas the Apostle 52 AD, Indo-Roman trade route https://benjaminbaileyfoundation.org/The_First_Missionary_to_India.html
The Indo-Greeks were Hellenistic Greek kingdoms that ruled parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northwest India from around 180 BCE to the early 1st century CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom
Around 2,000 years ago, Jewish traders and refugees began arriving in India, particularly the Malabar Coast (Kerala), finding a haven where they prospered as merchants and integrated with local rulers https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/india-virtual-jewish-history-tour
British individuals used the racial slur "darkies" to refer to Indians, as well as other people of color, during the colonial era and beyond. https://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/sites/csas/files/assets/pdf/WP18_Sam_Fortescue.pdf
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