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I guess “BLACK” is the only accepted means of referring to people of the darker colors these days.

When I was a lad 60 years ago we called them colored.
Their organization is still called the National Association for the Advancement of colored People, even though we cannot call them Colored People any longer.

The older respected blacks were called Aunt and Uncle.
Terms they hate with a passion now. Blacks go out of their way to pronounce Aunt with the Ahnt sound from those days.

We had a couple wanting to rent the hall for a wedding and in her desire to please them the girl who was bartender asked, What type of drinks do you people wish to have.

Good gawd you would have thought she used the N word.
They went off like cannons. “What do you mean “YOu People”, the girl meant to do nothing but please, but these people went off and demanded an apology and wanted the girl fired. It’s awful hard to fire volunteers.

Yes do not call tham “You People” The “Dark set”, “colored” or anything they can misconstrue.
We have to stick with black I suppose although few of them are actually black, but many shades of darker skin. Oh crap I said darker.