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'''Colored''' or '''coloured'''<ref name=BBC1/> is a term used in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]]<ref name=BBC1/> to refer to [[black people]] (''i.e.'', persons of [[sub-Saharan]] African [[ancestry]]; members of the ''[[Negroid|black race]]''). Since the success of the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)|African-American Civil rights movement]], the term, along with "[[negro]]" and others, has been largely replaced by "[[Black people|black]]".<ref name=Shahadah>{{cncite web|date last =September 2015Shahadah| first = Owen 'Alik| authorlink =Owen 'Alik Shahadah| title =Linguistics for a new African reality| url=http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/language%20new%20reality.htm}}</ref> According to the [[Merriam-Webster]] dictionary, the word colored was first used in the 14th Century.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colored Colored] Merriam-Webster Dictionary</ref>

In other English-speaking countries, the term has varied meanings. In [[South Africa]], [[Namibia]], [[Zambia]] and [[Zimbabwe]], the term [[Coloured]] refers both to a specific ethnic group of complex mixed origins, which is considered neither black nor white, and in other contexts to people of mixed race; in neither context is its usage considered derogatory. In [[United Kingdom|British]] usage, the term refers to "a person who is wholly or partly of non-white descent" and its use may be regarded as antiquated or offensive,<ref>{{cite web|title=Definition of coloured in English|work=Oxford Dictionaries|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/coloured |accessdate=18 August 2012|quote=In Britain it was the accepted term until the 1960s, when it was superseded (as in the US) by black. The term coloured lost favour among black people during this period and is now widely regarded as offensive except in historical contexts}}</ref><ref name=BBC1>{{cite news|title=Is the word 'coloured' offensive?|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6132672.stm|publisher=BBC News |work=Magazine|accessdate=August 18, 2012|date=November 9, 2006|quote=In times when commentators say the term is widely perceived as offensive, a Labour MP lost no time in condemning it "patronising and derogatory"}}</ref> and other terms are preferable, particularly when referring to a single ethnicity.