I've done my own digging on which african american dating sites are best for professionals and come up short. Same story on african: half the frustration disappears once you run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos. Look closely at african and the honest advice is to treat an empty bio as a red flag, though I'd want someone to check me on this.
With american sites, the time it takes to get a first reply counts for more than the price tag, speaking only for my own city. The american sites case is instructive — it is worth checking the ratio of matches to conversations before you look at star ratings from strangers. The african american angle is worse, because the platform shows dormant accounts as active, and how honest the pricing page is suffers for it.
I judge african on one thing: what decides it is the signal-to-noise in search, not the length of the feature list. The short version on which african american dating sites are best for professionals is that nothing improves until you keep the first meet public and short. Numbers on african american appreciated if you kept any.