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Black Box (band)
Black Box (also Blackbox) is an Italian house trio of Daniele Davoli, Mirko Limoni, and Valerio Semplici, formed 1988, behind "Ride on Time," a six-week UK number 1 sampled from Loleatta Holloway, distinct from Black Box Recorder.
Black Box Diaries
Black Box Diaries (ブラック・ボックス・ダイアリーズ) is Shiori Itō's 2024 documentary on her own rape case against Noriyuki Yamaguchi, based on her book Black Box; Sundance 2024 premiere, 2025 Oscar nomination, and a Japan release delayed until December 2025 over unauthorized footage.
Black box group
A black box group is a finite group whose elements are encoded by bit strings, with operations available only through oracles; it was introduced by Babai and Szemerédi in 1984.
Black box model
A black box model is a model built and used only through its inputs and outputs, without knowledge of its internal workings; neural networks are canonical examples.
Black box theater
Black box theater: a simple, unadorned flexible performance space with black walls, a flat floor, movable seating, and no fixed stage; also called a studio theater. Configurable as proscenium, thrust, or arena per production; rooted in 1960s experimental theater.
Black Boy
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth is a 1945 memoir by Richard Wright about growing up in the Jim Crow South; it sold 400,000 copies and became a foundational text of African-American autobiography.
Black Brant (rocket)
The Black Brant is a family of Canadian solid-propellant sounding rockets first launched in 1959, a workhorse of NASA's suborbital science program with a 98.5% reliability record.
Black British art
Black British art is visual art made in Britain by artists of African, Caribbean, Asian, and Middle Eastern and North African descent, named as a field in the 1980s.
Black British people
Black British people are UK residents identifying as Black, counted in the census category "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African"; about 2.4 million people, 4.0% of England and Wales, concentrated in London, with distinct African and Caribbean subgroups.
Black British Theatre Awards
Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs), UK theatre awards founded in 2019 by Solange Urdang and Omar F. Okai celebrating Black performers and creatives; seventh ceremony held 2025 at the Piccadilly Theatre; 2026 ceremony cancelled and the company entered liquidation.
Black budget
The black budget, or confidential and intelligence funds, is the classified portion of US government spending, chiefly the National Intelligence and Military Intelligence Programs, about 11% of defense spending.
Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット)
Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel by Shiden Kanzaki and Saki Ukai about Rentaro Satomi and Enju Aihara fighting the Gastrea in post-apocalyptic Tokyo; a 2014 anime followed, and the series rebooted as New World Order in 2026.
Black Butler (黒執事)
Black Butler (黒執事, Kuroshitsuji) is Yana Toboso's Victorian dark fantasy manga serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy since 2006, following demon butler Sebastian Michaelis and twelve-year-old earl Ciel Phantomhive; over 36 million copies, six anime series, musicals, and a live-action film.
Black caiman
Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), largest alligator species, over 4 m, Amazon and Guianas; fish-eating mound nester; 99% 20th-century decline, now recovering, IUCN Least Concern 2025.
Black Cake (TV series)
Black Cake is a 2023 Hulu drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Marissa Jo Cerar from Charmaine Wilkerson's 2022 novel, produced by Harpo Films and Kapital Entertainment, starring Mia Isaac, Chipo Chung, Adrienne Warren, and Ashley Thomas; cancelled in 2024.
Black Canadian literature
Black Canadian literature, also called African Canadian literature, is the body of writing by people of African descent in Canada, published for over two hundred years.
Black Canadians
Black Canadians: people in Canada identifying as Black, also called African Canadians; 1,547,870 (4.3%) in 2021, descended from enslaved Africans, Black Loyalists, Underground Railroad arrivals, and Caribbean and African immigrants.
Black Canary
Black Canary is a DC Comics superheroine held by Dinah Drake (debut Flash Comics #86, 1947) and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance, a martial artist with the ultrasonic Canary Cry, member of the Justice Society, Justice League, and Birds of Prey.
Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件)
The Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件) is a 1986 Chinese satirical film, Huang Jianxin's debut, adapted from Zhang Xianliang's novella; a lost chess piece triggers suspicion of engineer Zhao Shuxin, starring Liu Zifeng, Golden Rooster Best Actor winner.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, western Colorado near Montrose, a 1999 park protecting a 48-mile gorge cut by the Gunnison River through 1.7-billion-year-old gneiss and schist, up to 2,722 feet deep.
Black carbon
Black carbon is light-absorbing soot from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, a major climate warming agent with an atmospheric lifetime of about one week.
Black carp (青鱼)
Black carp (青鱼, Mylopharyngodon piceus), a large molluscivorous Chinese cyprinid of the four famous domestic fishes, farmed since the Tang dynasty, introduced to the U.S. in 1973 and now reproducing invasively in the Mississippi River basin.
Black cat
Black cat: a domestic cat with a melanistic all-black coat caused by a recessive ASIP gene deletion. Known for medieval witchcraft stigma, black cat bias in shelters (higher euthanasia, lower adoption), and no evidence of temperament differences.
Black Cat (Marvel Comics)
Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) is a Marvel Comics cat burglar and antihero, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979) by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard. Known for feline agility, a bad luck aura, and an on-off romance with Spider-Man; stars in solo series from 2019 and 2025.
Black Cat (ブラックキャット) (manga)
Black Cat (ブラックキャット) is Kentaro Yabuki's 2000-2004 Weekly Shonen Jump manga in 20 volumes about assassin Train Heartnet, who leaves Chronos to become a bounty hunter; adapted into a 24-episode 2005 TBS anime.
Black Cat, White Cat
Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor) is Emir Kusturica's 1998 Romani comedy set on the Danube, winner of the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director and his follow-up to Underground.
Black Caviar
Black Caviar (2006-2024), nicknamed Nelly, Australian Thoroughbred sprinter by Bel Esprit out of Helsinge; unbeaten in 25 starts, 15 Group 1 wins, 2012 Royal Ascot Diamond Jubilee winner; died of laminitis after her ninth foal.
Black Celebration
Black Celebration is Depeche Mode's fifth studio album, released 17 March 1986 on Mute/Sire, produced with Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones in Berlin and London; all songs by Martin Gore, UK chart peak 4, singles Stripped, A Question of Lust, A Question of Time.
Black Christmas (1974 film)
Black Christmas (1974) is a Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark, written by Roy Moore, starring Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder; a sorority-house slasher that prefigured Halloween and founded the slasher genre.
Black Christmas (2006 film)
Black Christmas (Black X-Mas) is Glen Morgan's 2006 slasher remake of Bob Clark's 1974 film, starring Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg; it added a Billy Lenz backstory, grossed $21.5 million worldwide, and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.