{This is NOT the same thing as saying that African = "Black".}

I can see your point but "the original African Homo sapiens founder species" were most likely black in skin colour for the same reason that the sub-Sahara Africans of today are. Weren't the early human skeletons so far found were in the "black Africa" of today?

I suppose when the author used the term "Black" in the article, the author meant the colour of skin.

What catches my eye the most is: “We did not see even one single individual that could be considered as a descendant of the homo erectus in China, rather, everybody was a descendant of our ancestors from Africa.”