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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	The Wire	15,778
2	Hip hop music	12,972
3	Jazz	12,959
4	Atlanta	11,473
5	Rastafari movement	10,824
6	Blues	9,212
7	Rock and roll	7,373
8	Hip hop	5,325
9	Harlem	4,346
10	Motown	4,022
11	Treme (TV series)	3,931
12	Black billionaires	2,972
13	Dreadlocks	2,896
14	Nation of Islam	2,889
15	Blackface	2,799
16	Black Entertainment Television	2,486
17	Nigga	2,427
18	Gangsta rap	2,424
19	Ebonics	2,324
20	Hip-hop dance	2,306
21	African American Vernacular English	2,086
22	Kwanzaa	1,967
23	Louisiana Creole people	1,677
24	African American culture	1,657
25	Afro-textured hair	1,605
26	Krumping	1,603
27	Black Betty	1,521
28	Soul food	1,512
29	Minstrel show	1,508
30	Afro	1,438
31	Uncle Tom	1,320
32	Moonwalk (dance)	1,161
33	Jheri curl	1,119
34	Black Power	1,060
35	Gullah Gullah Island	992
36	Hoodoo (folk magic)	980
37	Afrocentrism	948
38	Black Hebrew Israelites	947
39	Spiritual (music)	887
40	African-American music	882
41	Cornrows	865
42	Wigger	841
43	Negro league baseball	822
44	List of black superheroes	816
45	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	790
46	African-American literature	749
47	Down-low (sexual slang)	747
48	Do-rag	745
49	Apollo Theater	709
50	Hi-top fade	704
51	BlackPlanet	690
52	Media Take Out	640
53	Tar baby	620
54	Hood film	600
55	The Dozens	574
56	Black church	572
57	Centric	544
58	Vogue (dance)	475
59	Juneteenth	472
60	40 acres and a mule	472
61	Niggas vs. Black People	459
62	Kufi	453
63	Dap greeting	438
64	Conk	416
65	Lift Every Voice and Sing	389
66	Stepping (African-American)	379
67	Freaknik	367
68	Japanese Blackface	357
69	TV One (US TV network)	346
70	Acting white	341
71	Karamu (feast)	330
72	Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco	328
73	Pound Cake speech	301
74	African-American dance	292
75	Urban contemporary gospel	292
76	Ball culture	288
77	Black is beautiful	282
78	Afrofuturism	267
79	Slave narrative	262
80	East Oakland, Oakland, California	260
81	Showtime at the Apollo	259
82	Chitlin' circuit	258
83	Pan-African colours	257
84	Origins of rock and roll	240
85	Signifyin'	226
86	Bean pie	221
87	Jive turkey	206
88	Oakland Ebonics controversy	205
89	Baby mama	194
90	Coon song	193
91	African American studies	183
92	West Oakland, Oakland, California	179
93	High yellow	174
94	The White Negro	174
95	Strivers' Row	172
96	African American art	171
97	Hitsville U.S.A.	162
98	African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem	161
99	Young, Gifted and Black	140
100	Wolf ticket	135
101	Afro-punk	134
102	Black American Princess	127
103	Black conservatism	121
104	Black pride	120
105	Bossip	119
106	Black conservatism in the United States	119
107	House Negro	119
108	S-Curl	113
109	The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood	108
110	African American newspapers	106
111	Black doll	103
112	Paper Bag Party	101
113	Life as a BlackMan	97
114	Ring shout	97
115	Africatown	96
116	African American hair	95
117	Rent party	93
118	Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater	92
119	American Society of Muslims	89
120	Songs of the Underground Railroad	86
121	Race music	82
122	New Negro	81
123	Black Rock Coalition	81
124	Chicago stepping	80
125	Black matriarchy	77
126	Deep River (song)	74
127	Black school	72
128	The New Negro	71
129	Black Family Channel	68
130	Blackness (African-American subculture)	67
131	Mytown	67
132	Karamu House	63
133	Honda Battle of the Bands	63
134	Black science fiction	62
135	Get down	59
136	Children, Go Where I Send Thee	57
137	J-Setting	57
138	The Harimaya Bridge	56
139	Idlewild, Michigan	54
140	Good hair (phrase)	54
141	Shuckin' and jivin'	53
142	The Black Candle	52
143	Black leftism	51
144	Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic	51
145	Bronner Bros.	48
146	Oh, Dem Golden Slippers	47
147	Ernest Hogan	47
148	Fodder on My Wings	45
149	Portrayal of black people in comics	45
150	Criminal black man	45
151	Four Eleven Forty Four	44
152	Religion in Black America	42
153	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture	40
154	Hair Wars	37
155	National Black Network	35
156	Nathan Hare	35
157	Pinkster	33
158	Ashton Villa	33
159	Othermother	31
160	Letters to a Young Brother	30
161	Crossroads Theatre	28
162	Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks	26
163	Deep River Boys	26
164	Funeral Procession (painting)	25
165	Uptown Theater (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)	24
166	Connie's Inn	22
167	Nigger (2002 book)	21
168	Beyond the Down Low	21
169	Afro Psalms	21
170	Moorish Orthodox Church of America	20
171	Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch	20
172	Lincoln Motion Picture Company	19
173	Showtime Steppers	19
174	The Laughing Place	18
175	Nkiru Center for Education and Culture	18
176	American Tennis Association	18
177	Golden Slippers	18
178	African American National Biography Project	17
179	Peter Durrett	17
180	Black meets white	16
181	The Future of the Race	16
182	Homemade Jamz Blues Band	15
183	Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus	15
184	Gillfield Baptist Church (Petersburg, Virginia)	15
185	D Underbelly	14
186	American Black Film Festival	14
187	DanceAfrica	14
188	Urban Bush Women	13
189	Journal of Black Studies	12
190	National Black Family Reunion	12
191	Mosaic Templars Cultural Center	11
192	Seddity	11
193	Oui Be Negroes	11
194	Frederick B. Williams	11
195	Clothing in the Ragtime Era	11
196	Backstreet Cultural Museum	11
197	Cotton Club (Portland)	10
198	Research on the African-American Family	10
199	Spiritual Israel Church and Its Army	10
200	Just Above Midtown	10
201	Harrison Thomas LaTour	10
202	Hush harbor	9
203	Drums and Shadows	9
204	The Black World Today	9
205	Eugene Von Grona	9
206	First African Baptist Church (Lexington, Kentucky)	9
207	Greek Picnic	7
208	Detroit JazzStage	7
209	Black sermonic tradition	7
210	Pernessa C. Seele	7
211	Katherine Dunham Company	6
212	The Art Movements	6
213	Twirlin'	6
214	City Mission Society	6
215	Preston Washington	6
216	Black Patti Records	less than 5 views
217	Unity Day (Philadelphia)	less than 5 views
218	M.Dia	less than 5 views
219	Journal of Negro Education	less than 5 views
220	Prayer kettle	less than 5 views
221	Dese Bones G'wine Rise Again	less than 5 views
222	Winks Panorama	less than 5 views
223	Mutual Black Network	less than 5 views
224	Black superheroes	less than 5 views
225	Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts	less than 5 views
226	Roxbury Film Festival	less than 5 views
227	Black college football classics	less than 5 views
228	Extra Mile Education Foundation	less than 5 views
229	Soul!	less than 5 views
230	African American acting Emmy Award nominations	less than 5 views
231	Black animated characters	less than 5 views
232	The Collegiate 100	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• African American actors
• African American art
• African American cemeteries
• African American film
• African American history
• African American literature
• African American museums in the United States
• African American music
• African American press
• African American studies publications
• African American theatre
• African and Black nationalism
• African-American gender relations
• Afro-American religion
• Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
• Black Hebrew Israelites
• Black sitcoms
• Black television drama series
• Harlem, New York
• Jazz
• Kwanzaa
• LGBT in African American culture
• Predominantly African American Christian denominations
• Soul food

Parent categories

• African American
• American culture by ethnicity