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For starters I'm curious about what constitutes an "official" word. Second I'd suggest you take a class on post slavery or WWII African American literature (not being snarky for real, every one should, the cannon is pretty fantastic). If you do you'll see that the terms for referring to black people have evolved from Colored to Negro to Nigger. All three were the most accepted common parlance at one point in time with a host of different groups rejecting or embracing different ones at different times. Go a bit further and you get Black and African American but as far as official things go I don't think it's any more worked out and decided today than it was at any other time post slavery.