<p>Thank goodness that among intellectuals (including college admissions officers) and others with a knowledge of history and cultural events it is now broadly accepted that in the United States, the term ‘African-American’ refers to the contemporary descendants of the Africans spirited away to the New World (continent of North America) in bondage from approximately 1619 to the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade in North America in the mid-19th century. Being born in aywhere in Africa in the late 20th Century and subsequently raised or resettling in the U.S. does not make one an African-American.</p>