"Stuart Tyson Smith writes in the 2001 Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, "Any characterization of race of the ancient Egyptians depends on modern cultural definitions, not on scientific study. Thus, by modern American standards it is reasonable to characterize the Egyptians as 'black', while acknowledging the scientific evidence for the physical diversity of Africans."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy#Position_of_modern_scholarship
In 2008, S. O. Y. Keita wrote
"There is no scientific reason to believe that the primary ancestors of the Egyptian population emerged and evolved outside of northeast Africa.... The basic overall genetic profile of the modern population is consistent with the diversity of ancient populations that would have been indigenous to northeastern Africa and subject to the range of evolutionary influences over time, although researchers vary in the details of their explanations of those influences."
I don't mean to be confrontational, but this debate needs to die.
Racial politics don't make sense in North Africa. Race is a western concept to describe relations to power. Some Egyptians (my dad, for one) are going to be read as Black in the US or Europe, some aren't. Ancient and modern Egyptians (because they are the same ethnicity) did in fact evolve in northeast Africa and non-Egyptian Africans can absolutely take pride in that, but Blackness isn't synonymous with Africanness and this debate is not useful in most fields nowadays.
Hi, you may be interested in a few threads. This question comes up frequently enough in this sub to have inspired its own Monday Methods thread: