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Black Decade literature
Black Decade literature (العشرية السوداء) is the Algerian fiction written during and after the civil war of the 1990s, which killed more than 150,000 people.
Black Desert Online (검은사막)
Black Desert Online (검은사막) is Pearl Abyss's buy-to-play open-world action MMORPG, launched in Korea in December 2014 and the West in March 2016, known for action combat, node-worker economy, life skills, and grind-heavy RNG progression.
Black Diamond Equipment
Black Diamond Equipment is an American manufacturer of climbing, skiing, and mountain sports equipment founded in 1989 by former Chouinard Equipment employees, and owned by Clarus Corporation since 2010.
Black Diamond Therapeutics
Black Diamond Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company founded in 2014, developing MasterKey inhibitors against families of oncogenic mutations; its lead drug is silevertinib.
Black Disciples
Black Disciples (BDs), a Chicago street gang founded by David Barksdale in 1966, once part of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation with Larry Hoover's Gangster Disciples; ran a massive 1989-2004 South and West Side drug-trafficking organization dismantled in a 2004 47-defendant federal takedown.
Black Dog (Led Zeppelin song)
"Black Dog" is a 1971 song by Led Zeppelin, the opening track of their untitled fourth album, built on a stop-start riff in mismatched meters and a US top 15 single.
Black Dog (狗阵) (2024 film)
Black Dog (狗阵) is a 2024 Chinese drama directed by Guan Hu, starring Eddie Peng, about an ex-convict who bonds with a stray dog before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Black Dolphin Prison (Чёрный дельфин)
Black Dolphin Prison (Чёрный дельфин), officially Penal Colony No. 6 (IK-6), is a special-regime FSIN colony in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near the Kazakhstan border, holding roughly 700 men, mostly life-sentenced, named for a black dolphin fountain sculpture.
Black Doves
Black Doves is a British Netflix spy thriller created by Joe Barton, starring Keira Knightley as Helen Webb and Ben Whishaw as Sam Young; Season 1 premiered December 5, 2024, and Season 2 arrives November 5, 2026.
Black drongo
Black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus), a 30-31 cm all-black Asian passerine with a deeply forked tail, common in open farmland; insectivorous, aggressive, a vocal mimic, IUCN Least Concern with seven subspecies.
Black Duck
Black Duck is an American application security company in Burlington, Massachusetts, formed in 2024 from Synopsys's Software Integrity Group and known for its software composition analysis product.
Black dwarf
A black dwarf is the hypothetical end state of a white dwarf star that has cooled so long it emits no detectable heat or light. None exist yet.
Black Dyke Band
Black Dyke Band, founded 1855 as Black Dyke Mills Band in Queensbury, West Yorkshire, is a champion British brass band with 23 National and 30 British Open wins, 350+ recordings, and Proms and Glastonbury appearances.
Black Dynamite
Black Dynamite is a 2009 American comedy film that parodies 1970s blaxploitation movies, directed by Scott Sanders and starring Michael Jai White as an ex-CIA kung fu fighter.
Black Dynamite (TV series)
Black Dynamite is a two-season Adult Swim adult animated series (premiered July 15, 2012) adapting the 2009 blaxploitation parody film, with Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson, and Kym Whitley reprising voice roles, developed by Carl Jones.
Black eagle
Black eagle (Ictinaetus malaiensis), sole species of genus Ictinaetus, a dark forest raptor of South and Southeast Asia; long fingered wings, yellow cere and feet, nest-raiding diet; IUCN Least Concern but decreasing.
Black Earth Rising
Black Earth Rising is a 2018 eight-part BBC Two/Netflix thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Michaela Coel as Rwandan genocide survivor Kate Ashby, exploring post-genocide justice, the ICC, and RPF reprisals.
Black Eggs
Black Eggs (Kuroi tamago) is a collection of free verse and tanka by Hiroshima poet Kurihara Sadako, self-published in 1946 and counted among the earliest works of atomic bomb literature.
Black Elk
Black Elk (Heȟáka Sápa) was an Oglala Lakota holy man and Catholic catechist whose teachings shaped the books Black Elk Speaks and The Sacred Pipe.
Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak, formerly Harney Peak until the 2016 U.S. Board on Geographic Names renaming, is South Dakota's highest summit at 7,242 ft listed (7,231 ft surveyed) and the highest US point east of the Rockies, in the Black Elk Wilderness, Black Hills.
Black Europeans
Black Europeans, also called Afro-Europeans or people of African descent, are people of African ancestry born in or living in Europe, estimated at 8-15 million; distinguished by presence since Roman times and FRA-documented discrimination.
Black eye
Black eye (periorbital hematoma, periorbital ecchymosis): bruising and swelling around the eye from face or head trauma, usually healing in days to 3 weeks; ice, acetaminophen, and checks for hyphema, orbital fracture, or skull fracture.
Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas: Los Angeles pop-rap group (ex-Atban Klann) of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and formerly Fergie; six Grammys, record 26-week 2009 Hot 100 run, The E.N.D., Translation.
Black Falcon (diamond)
The Black Falcon is a 612.34-carat black diamond carved into the shape of a falcon's head, recognized as the largest cut diamond in the world, unveiled in 2025.
Black fatigue
Black fatigue is the chronic exhaustion Black people experience from coping with anti-Black racism, coined by Mary-Frances Winters in her 2020 book Black Fatigue and distinct from racial battle fatigue and racial trauma.
Black feminism
Black feminism is a tradition of thought and activism by Black women analyzing interlocking racism, sexism, and class oppression; key texts include the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement and Crenshaw's 1989 intersectionality.
Black Flag (band)
Black Flag is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California by guitarist Greg Ginn. Founders of SST Records, makers of Damaged (1981), disbanded 1986, now touring with a rebuilt lineup.
Black Flag Army
The Black Flag Army (黑旗军) was an irregular force led by Liu Yongfu that fought French expansion in northern Vietnam in the 1870s and 1880s.
Black Flash
Black Flash is a DC Comics entity, the personification of death for speedsters, created by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, and Ron Wagner. First appearing in The Flash vol 2 #138 (June 1998), it returns dying speedsters to the Speed Force.
Black fly
Black fly (Simuliidae; buffalo gnat): small biting fly whose larvae live in fast-flowing streams; females are pool feeders and vectors of Onchocerca volvulus, cause of river blindness; 2,439 valid species listed in 2026.