Since this is a new print from computer records, someone may have done a global replace changing all references of Negro or Colored or Black to African in the database.
So that raises the question, what else did they change? For instance, if Baraka legally changed his name to Barack and perhaps dropped the "Muhammed," would they also change that?
We'd have to check, but I think the "race" box would have been filled out as the formerly correct "negro," or the currently correct "black" on the original record. "African-American" was a later term, and "African" means little or nothing. That could include Arabs or Afrikaans or who knows what--anyone born in Africa.