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Black Christmas (2019 film)
Black Christmas (2019) is a Blumhouse horror film directed by Sophia Takal, co-written with April Wolfe, starring Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes; the second remake of the 1974 slasher, released December 13, 2019, grossing $10.4M US.
Black church
The Black church, also known as the African American church, is the collective term for independent Christian congregations and denominations founded by African Americans, tracing back to 1787.
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー)
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is Yūki Tabata's fantasy manga about Asta, a magicless boy with anti-magic aiming to become Wizard King. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2015, moved to quarterly Jump GIGA in 2023, ended with chapter 392 on May 1, 2026; 392 chapters, 38 volumes, 24 million copies.
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) (TV series)
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is the TV anime of Yūki Tabata's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about Asta and Yuno; 170 episodes aired 2017-2021 on TV Tokyo, with a film in 2023 and a second season set for October 2026.
Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火, "Daylight Fireworks") is Diao Yinan's 2014 Chinese neo-noir crime film starring Liao Fan and Gwei Lun-mei; it won the 64th Berlinale Golden Bear and Silver Bear for Best Actor and grossed over 100 million RMB in China.
Black Coast
Black Coast (Spanish: Black, Costa) is a coast of Palmer Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, listed in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer at 71°45'S, 62°W.
Black Codes (United States)
Black Codes were discriminatory state laws passed by Southern legislatures in 1865–1866 during Presidential Reconstruction, regulating freedmen's labor through contracts, vagrancy, and apprenticeship; Congress answered with the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Black Coffee (DJ)
Black Coffee (Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo, born 1976) is a South African house DJ and producer, founder of Soulistic Music, 2022 Grammy winner for Subconsciously, known for one-handed DJing and Afropolitan house.
Black comedy
Black comedy, also called dark comedy, is a genre of comedy that finds humor in morbid, grotesque, or calamitous subjects such as death, violence, and other taboo topics.
Black Company
Black Company (German Schwarzer Haufen) names the Franconian peasant band of Florian Geyer formed in 1525, the Schwarze Bande landsknechts destroyed at Pavia 1525, and Glen Cook's mercenary fantasy brotherhood.
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM): South African anti-apartheid movement of the late 1960s-1970s led by Steve Biko; founded via SASO (1969), BPC (1972); emphasized psychological liberation, inclusive 'blackness', inspired the 1976 Soweto Uprising.
Black conservatism in the United States
Black conservatism in the United States, or African-American conservatism, is a body of political thought in which African Americans endorse self-help, individualism, limited government, and gradual social change.
Black coral
Black corals, also known as thorny or thorn corals, are colonial cnidarians of the order Antipatharia with dark, thorny proteinaceous skeletons, found in all oceans and harvested for centuries to make jewelry.
Black Country
The Black Country is an industrial region of the West Midlands, England, lying west of Birmingham between it and Wolverhampton, named for the soot from its coal and iron industry.
Black Country Communion
Black Country Communion is an English-American hard rock supergroup formed in 2009 by Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian with producer Kevin Shirley, named after the West Midlands Black Country, with five studio albums (2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2024).
Black Country, New Road
Black Country, New Road is an English experimental rock band formed in 2018. The group is known for its blend of post-punk, math rock, and klezmer influences.
Black Crab (film)
Black Crab (Svart krabba) is a 2022 Swedish dystopian action thriller directed by Adam Berg, adapted from Jerker Virdborg's 2002 novel, starring Noomi Rapace as soldier Caroline Edh skating across a frozen archipelago on a Netflix mission film released March 18, 2022.
Black Cube
Black Cube is an Israeli private intelligence firm founded by Dan Zorella and Avi Yanus, staffed by ex-Israeli intelligence veterans, known for HUMINT sting operations for Weinstein, ENRC, and litigation clients, and for court findings of abuse of process.
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Black Dagger Brotherhood: J.R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance series of vampire warriors in Caldwell, New York; Dark Lover (2005) opens it, with spin-offs and a Passionflix adaptation.
Black Dahlia
Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short, 22, found murdered in Los Angeles January 15, 1947, body severed at waist; unsolved despite 22 major suspects, dozens of false confessions; investigation closed 1950.
Black Dahlia suspects
Black Dahlia suspects: proposed killers of Elizabeth Short, murdered in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Named candidates include George Hodel, Walter Bayley, Leslie Dillon, and Marvin Margolis; the case remains unsolved.
Black Day (블랙데이) (South Korea)
Black Day (블랙데이) is South Korea's unofficial April 14 observance for singles who received nothing on Valentine's Day or White Day, marked by eating jajangmyeon, wearing black, and drinking black coffee; it emerged in the 1990s.
Black Death
Black Death: the 1346–1353 bubonic plague pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis, deadliest in recorded history, killing up to half of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; origin traced by ancient DNA to Kyrgyzstan (Kara-Djigach), distinct from later second-pandemic waves and modern plague.
Black Death (film)
Black Death (2010) is a UK-German medieval horror film directed by Christopher Smith, written by Dario Poloni, starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and Carice van Houten; a monk guides knights to a plague-spared village in 1348.
Black Death in al-Andalus
The Black Death in al-Andalus (مجاعة وطاعون الأندلس) was the mid-14th-century plague outbreak in Muslim Iberia, striking Almeria in 1348 and reaching the Nasrid court in Granada.
Black Death in England
Black Death in England: the Yersinia pestis epidemic arriving from France in 1348, killing roughly 40% (estimates 30-50%) of the population, triggering the Ordinance and Statute of Labourers, recurrent outbreaks, and long demographic depression.
Black Death in medieval culture
Black Death in medieval culture: the 1347-1351 plague's cultural impact, roughly 50% English mortality, flagellants, persecution of Jews, Dance of Death art, plague-boils imagery, labour laws, and higher post-plague wages.
Black Death in Rus
The Black Death in Rus (Моровая язва 1352 года) was a plague epidemic that reached Novgorod in 1352 and killed Grand Prince Simeon of Moscow in 1353.
Black Death in the Maghreb
The Black Death in the Maghreb (الطاعون الأسود في المغرب) was the mid-fourteenth-century plague pandemic in Islamic North Africa, striking Tunis and Tlemcen between 1347 and 1351 or 1353.
Black Death in the Middle East
The Black Death in the Middle East (الطاعون الأسود) struck the Mamluk Sultanate between 1347 and 1351, killing an estimated one-quarter to one-third of Egypt's population.