What does it mean to be African American in the 21st Century?

In the opening lines of  "The  Forethought" to  The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois wrote:

Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.  This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line?

Question: What does it mean to be African American at the dawning of the 21st Century?