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Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro, Orfeu do Carnaval) is Marcel Camus's 1959 French-Italian-Brazilian film retelling the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in Rio's favelas during Carnival, starring Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn, with a Jobim-Bonfá bossa nova soundtrack, winner of the 1959 Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Black Out (TV series)
Black Out (백설공주에게 죽음을, Snow White Must Die) is a 2024 MBC Korean crime thriller starring Byun Yo-han and Go Joon, adapting Nele Neuhaus's German novel; 14 episodes aired August 16 to October 4, 2024, rising from 2.8% to 6.4% Nielsen ratings.
Black oxide
Black oxide is a conversion coating that transforms a ferrous metal's surface into black magnetite, used for appearance, reduced reflection, and the bluing on firearms.
Black Paintings
Black Paintings (Pinturas negras): fourteen murals Goya painted 1819–1823 in oil on the walls of his Quinta del Sordo near Madrid, including Saturn Devouring His Son; transferred to canvas in 1874 and now in the Prado.
Black panther
Black panther: not a species but a melanistic (all-black) big cat, usually a leopard in Asia/Africa or a jaguar in the Americas; recessive ASIP mutation in leopards, dominant MC1R in jaguars, about 11% of leopards globally.
Black Panther (character)
Black Panther is a Marvel Comics superhero, alter ego of T'Challa, king of fictional Wakanda; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966) as mainstream comics' first black superhero, later a record-breaking film franchise.
Black Panther (film)
Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa, king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.
Black Panther (soundtrack)
Black Panther (soundtrack) covers the music for Marvel's 2018 film: Kendrick Lamar-curated Black Panther: The Album and Ludwig Göransson's Oscar-winning Original Score, plus Wakanda Forever's Rihanna single Lift Me Up and its Grammy nominations.
Black Panther (TV series)
Black Panther (TV series): 2010 BET motion-comic miniseries adapting Reginald Hudlin's 'Who is the Black Panther?' comic in six TV-14 episodes; stars Djimon Hounsou as T'Challa and introduced Shuri, predating the 2018 film.
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party (BPP), originally Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: revolutionary Black nationalist-socialist organization founded Oct 15, 1966, in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; known for armed self-defense, the Ten-Point Program, free breakfast and health clinics, and FBI COINTELPRO repression.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is Marvel Studios' 2022 sequel directed by Ryan Coogler, following Shuri, Ramonda, and Wakanda after T'Challa's death, introducing Namor of Talokan, and winning Ruth E. Carter a Best Costume Design Oscar.
Black Park
Black Park (Black Park Country Park) is a 217-hectare country park at Wexham, south Buckinghamshire, near Slough, designated in 1970; known for heathland SSSI, Black Park Lake, Go Ape, and Pinewood Studios filming.
Black Pearl
Black Pearl covers three main uses: the Pirates of the Caribbean pirate ship formerly the Wicked Wench captained by Jack Sparrow; the Turkish series Siyah İnci (2017–2018) on Star TV; and the Argentine telenovela Perla negra (1994–1995) starring Andrea Del Boca.
Black Pearl (yacht)
Black Pearl is a 106.7-meter, three-masted sailing yacht built by the Dutch shipyard Oceanco, delivered in 2018 as the largest sailing yacht in the world.
Black people
Black people: an identity and racial category applied chiefly to people of sub-Saharan African and African-Caribbean descent. Covers term history (Colored, Negro, Black, African American), US census and OMB classification, and evidence the category is social, not biological.
Black people and Mormonism
Black people and Mormonism covers Black members of the Latter Day Saint movement and the LDS priesthood and temple restriction of 1852 to 1978, its Cain and Ham justifications, the 1978 Official Declaration 2 revelation, and the 2013 disavowal of past racial theories.
Black people in ancient Roman history
Black people in ancient Roman history: Africans and dark-skinned people ('Aethiopes') across the Roman Empire, including Septimius Severus and black soldiers in Roman Britain, with ancient racial categorization and bioarchaeological evidence.
Black people in Ireland
Black people in Ireland (Black or Black Irish census categories): 76,245 residents, 1.5% of Ireland's population in 2022, with a documented presence since the eighteenth century, rising African migration since the 1990s, higher reported discrimination rates, and anti-racism policy under NAPAR 2023–2027.
Black pepper
Black pepper (Piper nigrum; Milagu), the dried berry of a Western Ghats-native vine; piperine activates TRPV1; black, white, green forms by processing; Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, India lead production.
Black pepper oleoresin
Black pepper oleoresin, a solvent-extracted concentrate from Piper nigrum peppercorns (FEMA 2846, CAS 8002-56-0), carries both aroma volatiles (20–36%) and pungent piperine (35–55%), used to flavor processed foods and authorized as an EU feed additive in 2024.
Black Phone (film series)
Black Phone film series: Blumhouse/Universal horror franchise begun with The Black Phone (2022), adapted from Joe Hill's short story, starring Ethan Hawke as the Grabber; continued by Black Phone 2 (2025), which makes the villain supernatural.
Black Phone 2
Black Phone 2 (2025) is Scott Derrickson's supernatural horror sequel to The Black Phone, written with C. Robert Cargill from Joe Hill's characters. Ethan Hawke's Grabber returns from the dead to haunt siblings Finney and Gwen at the 1982-set Alpine Lake winter camp; it opened to $42 million worldwide.
Black phosphorus
Black phosphorus is the most thermodynamically stable allotrope of phosphorus, a layered semiconductor first synthesized by Percy Bridgman in 1914 and rediscovered in 2014 as phosphorene.
Black phosphorus (phosphorene) HER catalysis
Black phosphorene, the single- or few-layer form of black phosphorus, is a two-dimensional material studied as an electrocatalyst and photocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction.
Black phosphorus nanosheets
Black phosphorus nanosheets, whose single layers are called phosphorene, are two-dimensional flakes of black phosphorus first exfoliated in 2014; a tunable bandgap and biodegradability make them candidates for electronics and medicine.
Black phosphorus transistor
A black phosphorus transistor is a field-effect transistor whose channel is made of few-layer black phosphorus, first demonstrated in 2014; its main challenge is degradation in air.
Black piedra
Black piedra (Trichomycosis nodosa) is a superficial fungal hair infection caused by Piedraia hortae, producing firm black nodules on scalp hair, mainly in tropical South America and Southeast Asia, treated by shaving or antifungals.
Black Point
Black Point, billed as Black Jonas Point, is the stage name of Dominican rapper Jonás Joaquín Ortiz Alberto, born 1989 in Santo Domingo, known for "Watagatapitusberry" with Pitbull.
Black Point power station
Black Point power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station at Black Point, Tuen Mun, in Hong Kong's New Territories, operating since 1996 and expanded to 3,850MW.
Black Power movement in Bermuda
The Black Power movement in Bermuda was an anticolonial youth movement against British colonialism and the island's white oligarchy in the late 1960s and 1970s.