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Black folk art in the American South
Black folk art in the American South is visual art by untrained African American Southern artists using found and handmade materials to address religion, memory, and race.
Black Forceps (ブラックペアン)
Black Forceps (ブラックペアン) is a TBS Sunday Theater medical drama starring Kazunari Ninomiya, based on Takeru Kaidō's novels; season 1 aired April 2018, season 2 July-September 2024.
Black Forest
Black Forest (Schwarzwald), forested low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 5,000 km2 with 75% forest cover; home to a 2017 UNESCO biosphere reserve, Black Forest National Park, spruce-fir-beech forests, and capercaillie.
Black Forest gateau
Black Forest gateau (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte), also called Black Forest cake, is a German layer cake of chocolate sponge, sour cherries, whipped cream, and Kirsch, which German food rules require; credited to Josef Keller in 1915.
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a German AI company founded in 2024 in Freiburg by former Stable Diffusion researchers, best known for its FLUX image-generation models.
Black Francis
Black Francis, born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV in 1965 in Boston, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies.
Black Friday (1869)
Black Friday, also known as the Fisk-Gould Scandal, was the financial panic of September 24, 1869, when Jay Gould and James Fisk's failed gold corner crashed Wall Street.
Black Friday (2004 film)
Black Friday is a 2004 Hindi docudrama directed by Anurag Kashyap, based on S. Hussain Zaidi's book on the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts investigation, starring Kay Kay Menon; banned until 2007, it premiered at Locarno.
Black Friday (shopping)
Black Friday is the day after US Thanksgiving and the most popular single shopping day of the year, named by Philadelphia police for post-holiday traffic chaos.
Black Friday bushfires
The Black Friday bushfires were a series of fires in Victoria, Australia, that culminated on 13 January 1939, killing 71 people and prompting the landmark Stretton Royal Commission.
Black garden ant
Black garden ant (Lasius niger, common black ant), a Holarctic formicine ant, ~3 mm workers, queens to 15 mm living up to 15 years, colonies to 20,000, nests under paving, July-August flying ant swarms.
Black garlic
Black garlic is fresh garlic aged 15–90 days at 60–90°C and 70–90% humidity without additives, turning black, sweet, and soft via the Maillard reaction; allicin drops and antioxidant activity rises.
Black genocide in the United States
Black genocide in the United States: contested claim that slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration amount to genocide. Centered on the 1948 UN intent definition and the 1951 Civil Rights Congress UN petition; no legal determination has been made.
Black Girl (1966 film)
Black Girl (La Noire de…) is Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegal-France black-and-white drama, considered the first feature by a sub-Saharan African director, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a Senegalese maid driven to suicide in France; Prix Jean Vigo winner.
Black Gives Way to Blue
Black Gives Way to Blue is Alice in Chains' fourth studio album, released September 29, 2009 on Virgin; first with vocalist William DuVall after Layne Staley's 2002 death, with Elton John on the title track.
Black God, White Devil
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) is Glauber Rocha's 1964 Cinema Novo landmark: a sertão allegory of a fugitive couple torn between a fanatic preacher and a cangaceiro bandit, premiered at Cannes 1964.
Black Grape
Black Grape: Manchester rock-dance band formed in 1993 by Shaun Ryder and Bez after Happy Mondays; debut It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah hit UK number one in 1995; later albums Pop Voodoo (2017) and Orange Head (2023).
Black Guard
The Black Guard, known in Arabic as the Abid al-Bukhari (عبيد البخاري), was a standing army of slave-soldiers created by Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco in 1673.
Black Guerrilla Family
The Black Guerrilla Family, originally called the Black Family or Black Vanguard, is a prison gang founded in 1966 at San Quentin State Prison by George Jackson.
Black hair
Black hair, human hair with abundant eumelanin pigment, the darkest and most common hair color worldwide (over 90% brown or black); controlled polygenically, with MC1R the best-studied gene.
Black hairy tongue
Hypertrophy of tongue papillae (ICD-11 DA03.4), also called hairy tongue or black hairy tongue (lingua villosa nigra): benign elongation of filiform papillae from delayed desquamation, linked to smoking, antibiotics, and poor oral hygiene.
Black Hand (extortion)
The Black Hand (Mano Nera) was an American extortion method of the late 1800s and early 1900s, using mailed threat letters signed with a black hand; not an organization, it declined after Joe Petrosino's 1909 death and Postal Inspector crackdowns.
Black Hand (Уједињење или смрт) (Serbia)
Unification or Death (Уједињење или смрт), the Black Hand (Црна рука), a secret Serbian officers' society founded in Belgrade in 1911 under Apis, which supplied weapons for the 1914 Sarajevo assassination and was destroyed by the 1917 Salonica Trial.
Black Hat Briefings
Black Hat Briefings is a series of computer security conferences founded by Jeff Moss in 1997, where researchers present new vulnerabilities and defensive research to professionals.
Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, "Black Sparrow Hawk"), Sauk war leader born 1767 at Saukenuk, Illinois, who repudiated the 1804 treaty, led the 1832 Black Hawk War, and dictated a famous 1833 autobiography.
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk County, Iowa: county seat Waterloo, created 1843 and named for the Sauk leader Black Hawk. Population 131,144 (2020); land area 565.76 sq mi; largest employer John Deere; home of University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
Black Hawk Down (film)
Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting the Battle of Mogadishu after two U.S. helicopters were shot down in Somalia in 1993.
Black Hawk Purchase
The Black Hawk Purchase was a 1832 cession of about six million acres in eastern Iowa by the Sac and Fox tribes to the United States after the Black Hawk War.
Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War (1832) was a conflict in Illinois and Wisconsin between the United States and Sauk leader Black Hawk's band contesting the disputed 1804 Treaty of St. Louis, ending in the Bad Axe massacre and Native removal.
Black Hebrew Israelites
Black Hebrew Israelites, also called Hebrew Israelites, are American religious movements whose adherents hold that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites, a movement dating to the late 1890s.