Key Takeaways: 1) We can never allow ourselves as a society to forget that the majority of people in this country of African descent had ancestors who were stripped of their culture, language, and land, and forcibly taken to America as slaves. This went on for hundreds of years. 2) Black racial labels have changed over time. Following the Civil War, "colored" was popularized. This was switched to "Negro" after progressive black figures like Booker T. Washington pushed for it. In the late 1960s, "black" became prominent, and in 1988 black leaders met and proposed the replacement "African American.