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Black Power Revolution
The Black Power Revolution, also called the February Revolution, was a wave of protests, strikes, and an army mutiny in Trinidad and Tobago in 1970.
Black Prada Dress
"Black Prada Dress" is a 2026 song by Ellie Goulding, lead single of her sixth album I Know Too Much, written with James Essien and Evan Blair, produced by Jack Rochon, debuted at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend.
Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355
The Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355, the Grande Chevauchée, was an Anglo-Gascon mounted raid from Bordeaux across Languedoc to the Mediterranean, 5 October to 2 December 1355, with Count Armagnac avoiding battle.
Black Prince's Ruby
The Black Prince's Ruby, also known as the Ruby of the Black Prince, is a 170-carat red spinel set in the front of the British Imperial State Crown.
Black propaganda
Black propaganda: propaganda falsely attributed to a source, often within the target group; contrasted with white and grey propaganda. Practiced by OSS Morale Operations, British wartime services, and KGB disinformation; fragile in effect.
Black pudding
Black pudding, also called blood pudding, is a British and Irish blood sausage of animal blood, oats or barley, fat, and spices, eaten fried in full breakfasts; related to boudin noir, morcilla, and blutwurst, with Stornoway holding protected status.
Black Pumas
Black Pumas: Austin, Texas psychedelic soul duo of singer Eric Burton and guitarist-producer Adrian Quesada. Debut album 2019 on ATO; seven Grammy nominations including Best New Artist (2020); second album Chronicles of a Diamond (2023).
Black Pyramid
The Black Pyramid at Dahshur, Egypt, is the mudbrick pyramid of 12th-Dynasty king Amenemhat III, abandoned after structural failure drove him to build a second pyramid at Hawara.
Black queen cell virus
Black queen cell virus (BQCV), a Triatovirus dicistrovirus of honeybees, kills queen larvae and darkens queen cell walls; usually asymptomatic in adults, linked to Nosema, ~8,500-nt two-ORF RNA genome.
Black Rabbit
Black Rabbit is a 2025 Netflix crime thriller limited series created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, starring Jude Law as restaurateur Jake Friedken and Jason Bateman as his debt-ridden brother Vince; eight episodes, 7 Emmy nominations.
Black Racer (DC Comics)
Black Racer (DC Comics) is Jack Kirby's death psychopomp of the New Gods, debuting in New Gods #3 (1971) with host Willie Walker, distinguished from Black Flash and Death of the Endless by cosmic skis.
Black Rain (1989 American film)
Black Rain is a 1989 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas as a New York detective hunting a Yakuza fugitive in Osaka.
Black rat
The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, house rat, or ship rat, is a commensal rodent that spread worldwide as a major urban and agricultural pest.
Black Rave Culture
Black Rave Culture (BRC) is a DJ and production collective from Washington, D.C., formed in 2020 by Amal, James Bangura, and Nativesun to promote Black dance music.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1998, now a trio of Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been, and Leah Shapiro, named after the biker gang in The Wild One, with eight studio albums including Howl (2005) and Wrong Creatures (2018).
Black Repartition
Black Repartition (Чёрный передел) was a Russian revolutionary populist organization founded in 1879 by Georgi Plekhanov after the split of Land and Liberty; it rejected terrorism and worked through propaganda among workers.
Black rhinoceros
Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), hook-lipped browsing rhino of eastern and southern Africa, critically endangered; population fell 98% from about 100,000 to under 2,500 by 1995, now recovering to about 6,788.
Black Riders Liberation Party
Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP): a black nationalist, revolutionary socialist group founded in 1996 in California by General T.A.C.O. (Mischa Culton), styling itself the New Generation Black Panther Party; designated a black separatist hate group by the SPLC.
Black Rifle Coffee Company
Black Rifle Coffee Company (BRCC, BRC Inc.), founded 2014 by Green Beret Evan Hafer, is a veteran-founded American premium coffee, energy drink, and media company on the NYSE, selling via Wholesale, DTC, and Outpost channels with $398.3M FY2025 revenue.
Black Rob
Black Rob (Robert Ross, also Bacardi Rob), Harlem rapper on Bad Boy Records; platinum debut Life Story with hit "Whoa!" (No. 43 Hot 100); later prison, illness, died 2021 in Atlanta at 52.
Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert: northwestern Nevada playa of about 200 square miles, former bed of Lake Lahontan, within the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails NCA (est. 2000) and site of Burning Man since 1990.
Black Rock Shooter
Black Rock Shooter is a Japanese media franchise created by huke. It began as an original illustration in 2007 and grew into an anime, game, and music series.
Black Rod
Black Rod, formally the Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, is the senior House of Lords officer who maintains order in the Lords and famously knocks three times on the Commons door at State Opening; Ed Davis has held the Crown appointment since July 2025.
Black rot (grape disease)
Black rot, or grape black rot, is a fungal disease of grapevines caused by Guignardia bidwellii, native to North America and destructive in the eastern United States.
Black Russian Terrier
The Black Russian Terrier, in Russia the Tchiorny Terrier, is a large black working dog created by the Soviet Red Star kennel in Moscow after World War II.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, credited with creating heavy metal.
Black Sabbath (album)
Black Sabbath is the 1970 debut studio album by the English band of the same name, widely regarded as the first heavy metal album and a landmark of the genre.
Black Sabbath (film)
Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura, "The Three Faces of Fear") is Mario Bava's 1963 Italian horror anthology with Boris Karloff, released by AIP in 1964 in a recut version; the title inspired the Black Sabbath band name.
Black Sails (TV series)
Black Sails, Starz pirate drama (2014-2017) by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, a Treasure Island prequel set in Nassau in 1715, mixing historical pirates with Stevenson's characters.
Black salve
Black salve, also called Cansema or drawing salve, is an unregulated escharotic paste of bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and zinc chloride promoted as a skin cancer cure. Regulators find no evidence of benefit and document necrosis, disfigurement, and deaths from delayed care.