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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. EthnicGroupOfBlacksOfTheUS ethnic African American http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American ethnic blacks African-American negro African American blacks African-Americans black ethnic black African Americans negros ethnic African Americans TysonBeckford Tyson Beckford Benjamin Banneker BenjaminBanneker <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvzLk5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BenjaminBanneker</a> was an 18th century black inventor and astronomer. MichaelJohnson Michael Johnson Wyclef Jean WyclefJean-MusicalPerformer ColinPowell Colin Powell An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwIysG5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">USSecretaryOfState_Federal</a>. United States general who was the first Black to serve as Chief of Staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937). MercerEllington Mercer Ellington Martin Luther King, Jr. A famous black American civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 MartinLutherKingJr Billy Blanks <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkiRVJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BillyBlanks</a>, of Erie, Pennsylvania, is the inventor, in the 1990's, of the technique of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNY2gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TaeBoExercising</a>. He appears on promotional advertisements for the system on televsion. BillyBlanks Billie Holiday BillieHoliday BustaRhymes-MusicalPerformer Busta Rhymes Jimi Hendrix JimiHendrix Sean Carter Jay-Z Charles Barkley CharlesBarkley-BasketballPlayer An agricultural chemist who developed crop-rotation methods for conserving nutrients in soil and discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut, which created new markets for farmers, especially in the South. GeorgeWashingtonCarver George Carver Jesse Owens JesseOwens The black US track and field star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Jackie Robinson JackieRobinson-BaseballPlayer DukeEllington Duke Ellington UnitedStatesPerson An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViWHZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PersonTypeByNationality</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj1zpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesPerson</a> is a person who is currently among that country's citizens (see the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">citizens</a>), or is a participant in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r4VbZRgIxQdeJv7K4QRyNQg" class="cyc_term">NationalCulture</a> of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjD0_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesCulture</a>). American EthnicGroupOfBlacksOfTheUS ethnic African American (ResidentFn UnitedStatesOfAmerica) US resident Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString EthnicGroupOfBlacksOfTheUS ethnic African American EthnicGroupOfBlacksOfTheUS ethnic African American MinorityPerson minority status attribute The collection of people who are members of an ethnic group which is considered a minority group in the country in which they reside. This means that there is some other ethnic group in that country which the person is not in, which has more people than the person's ethnic group and is not considerd a minority ethnicity. The collection of all categories of US resident [(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv2TAHpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ResidentFn</a> (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvYkdfpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TerritoryFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVikKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitedStatesOfAmerica</a>))] distinguished by &quot;race&quot; or origin as listed on the US census form. US residents who fill out the census for self-select which category they are an instance of. This collection is context-dependent because in different decades, different lists of categories appear. Prior to 1790 there were no instances of this collection (in a non-fictional context). U. S. Census race and origin type USCensusRaceAndOriginType EthnicGroupOfBlacksOfTheUS ethnic African American EthnicGroupOfNewWorldBlacks New World Black New World ethnic groups developed by descendants of people brought from Africa