In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism. US media coverage of this movement has frequently utilized the racial ethnonym Black as opposed to African(-)American. As this note discusses, this choice in nomenclature may not only be due to the increasing prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It may also be indicative of earlier, large-scale shifts in autonymy. This note presents some of the demographic, linguistic, and sociopolitical factors that may well have played a role in the rising use of Black as both an ethnoracial and political identifier.

在由美国平民的不法死亡引发的历史性抗议中，示威者以创纪录的数量走上街头，要求正义并结束制度化的种族主义。美国媒体对该运动的报道经常使用种族名称“ Black”，而不是“ African（-）American”。正如本文所讨论的那样，这种命名方式的选择可能不仅是由于“黑人生活问题运动”的日益突出。这也可能预示着自主性的早期大规模转变。本说明介绍了一些人口，语言和社会政治因素，这些因素很可能在越来越多地使用黑人作为种族和政治认同者的过程中发挥了作用。