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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix's 2018 interactive choose-your-own-adventure film by Charlie Brooker and David Slade, starring Fionn Whitehead as a 1984 game programmer; it had five endings and was removed from Netflix on May 12, 2025.
Black Monday (1987)
Black Monday was the October 19, 1987 stock market crash in which the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.6 percent, its largest one-day percentage decline, erasing over $500 billion.
Black Monday (TV series)
Black Monday is a Showtime dark comedy series (2019–2021, 30 episodes) created by David Caspe and Jordan Cahan, starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, and Regina Hall as 1980s Wall Street outsiders who cause the October 19, 1987 stock market crash; cancelled in 2022, later on Netflix.
Black Moses
Black Moses is the English title of Petit Piment, a 2015 novel by the Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson in 2017 and longlisted for the Man Booker International prize.
Black Motion LIVE
Black Motion is a South African Afro-house duo from the Soshanguve township near Pretoria, formed around 2010, known for combining electronic production with live traditional drumming and vocals.
Black Mountain Bandits
The Black Mountain Bandits (黑山军) were a loose confederation of bandit bands active in the Taihang mountain valleys of northern China in the final decades of the Han dynasty, led by Zhang Yan.
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was a nonaccredited, faculty-owned experimental liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, founded by John Andrew Rice, led artistically by Bauhaus emigres Josef and Anni Albers, with about 1,200 students and alumni including Cage, Cunningham, and Rauschenberg.
Black Mountain poets
The Black Mountain poets were progressive American poets of the 1940s and 1950s tied to Black Mountain College, led by Charles Olson and his 1950 "projective verse" poetics.
Black Mountains (North Carolina)
The Black Mountains are a Blue Ridge range in Yancey and Buncombe counties, western North Carolina, the highest in the eastern United States, crowned by Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, with spruce-fir forests and Mount Mitchell State Park.
Black Mouth Cur
Black Mouth Cur: American all-purpose working and tree dog from Tennessee or Mississippi, dark-pigmented mouth, UKC-recognized November 1, 1998, not AKC-recognized; used for hunting, herding, and guarding.
Black Museum (Black Mirror)
"Black Museum" is the sixth and final episode of Black Mirror season 4 (2017), written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Colm McCarthy, starring Letitia Wright and Douglas Hodge, an anthology of three consciousness-transfer stories confirming a shared universe.
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话：悟空)
Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话：悟空) is a 2024 action role-playing game by the Chinese studio Game Science, adapting Journey to the West and widely called China's first AAA game, selling over 10 million copies in three days.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui (黑神话：钟馗)
Black Myth: Zhong Kui (黑神话：钟馗) is Game Science's second Black Myth title, a single-player action RPG starring the Taoist ghost-catcher Zhong Kui. Announced at Gamescom August 20, 2025; 15-minute gameplay trailer August 20, 2026; no release date; PC and consoles.
Black Narcissus
Black Narcissus is a 1947 Powell and Pressburger Technicolor drama, adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 bestseller, about Anglican nuns whose Himalayan convent in a former harem unravels; shot entirely at Pinewood, it won Oscars for cinematography and art direction.
Black nationalism
Black nationalism is a two-century-old African American political tradition holding that Black people form a distinct nation needing solidarity and self-determination, from David Walker and Martin Delany through Garvey's UNIA, the Nation of Islam, and Black Power.
Black Nazarene
Black Nazarene (Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno), a dark life-size statue of kneeling Jesus carrying the cross enshrined at Quiapo Church, Manila, since 1787; brought from Mexico in 1606; its January 9 Traslación procession draws millions.
Black News Channel
Black News Channel (BNC), also called BNC, was a Tallahassee, Florida-based 24-hour cable news network for Black audiences, launched February 10, 2020 by J.C. Watts and Bob Brillante, shut down March 25, 2022, and rebranded theGrio after Allen Media Group's $11 million bankruptcy purchase.
Black Noir
Black Noir is a silent superhero in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation. In the comics he is Homelander's clone and secret antagonist; in the show he is a different character, twice replaced.
Black Nova Scotians
Black Nova Scotians, or African Nova Scotians, are people of African descent in Nova Scotia, Canada, descended chiefly from Black Loyalists (1783), Jamaican Maroons (1796), and War of 1812 refugees, with 52 historic land-based communities.
Black nudibranch
Black nudibranch (Dendrodoris nigra, Black Doris), a velvet-black dorid sea slug of the Indo-West Pacific, sponge-feeding, chemically defended, with pink/orange juveniles and a species complex.
Black Nut
Black Nut (블랙넛), real name Kim Dae-woong, is a South Korean rapper known for explicit diss lyrics and his 2015 Show Me the Money 4 run.
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band formed in 1965 as the Knowbody Else, fronted by Jim Dandy Mangrum; its 1973 hit "Jim Dandy" and high-grossing 1970s tours made it Arkansas's first commercially successful rock band.
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is an inscribed Neo-Assyrian limestone monument erected in 825 BC at Kalhu, best known for a relief of the Israelite king Jehu paying tribute.
Black ocean
A black ocean is a K-pop protest in which fans turn off lightsticks and withhold cheers during a performer's set, first seen at the 2008 Dream Concert.
Black on Both Sides
Black on Both Sides is the 1999 debut solo studio album by American rapper Mos Def. It was released by Rawkus Records and features 17 tracks.
Black Opal
Black Opal (ბლექ ოპალ) is a luxury casino opened February 2023 at 30 Pekini Avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia, in the Onyx Hotel/Pekini Plaza; 13 tables, 115 slots, five poker variants, Ruby-Diamond-Black Opal status cards, open 24/7.
Black Opal Ventures
Black Opal Ventures is a New York venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Tara Bishop and Eileen Tanghal, investing early-stage in deep technologies applied to healthcare and life sciences.
Black or White
Black or White is Michael Jackson's 1991 single, the first from Dangerous, written with producer Bill Bottrell. Its John Landis short film premiered to 500 million viewers; the censored panther-dance ending stirred controversy.
Black or White (film)
Black or White is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Mike Binder, starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer in a custody battle over a biracial girl.
Black Order (comics)
The Black Order, also known as Cull Obsidian, is a Marvel Comics team of alien supervillains who serve Thanos as his generals, created by Jonathan Hickman in 2013.