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Black Snake Moan (film)
Black Snake Moan is Craig Brewer's 2007 drama, also called a Southern Gothic exploitation-style film, in which bluesman Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) chains Christina Ricci's Rae to a radiator; Justin Timberlake co-stars. Released by Paramount Vantage, it grossed about $10.9 million on a $15 million budget.
Black Snow
Black Snow is an Australian Stan crime mystery series (premiered 1 January 2023) in which Travis Fimmel's cold-case detective James Cormack investigates the 1994 murder of Isabel Baker in a North Queensland town, centered on its Australian South Sea Islander community; seasons 2 and 3 followed.
Black Snow (本命年)
Black Snow (本命年, Ben ming nian) is Xie Fei's 1990 Chinese drama, adapted from Liu Heng's novel Hei de Xue, starring Jiang Wen as released prisoner Li Huiquan; it won the 1990 Berlin Silver Bear and Hundred Flowers Best Feature.
Black soap
Black soap: traditional ash-and-vegetable-oil soap from West Africa used as a skincare cleanser (African black soap) and as a potassium fatty-acid-soap contact insecticide; EU declined its approval as a basic substance in 2022.
Black Souls (video game series)
Black Souls (BLACK SOULS; Kuro no Douwa to Go-Mahime) is an RPG Maker dark-fantasy eroge series by doujin circle Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe?/Sushi Yuusha Toro, first released on DLsite in 2017 with a 2018 sequel, Souls-inspired turn-based combat, fairy-tale heroines, and 2025 Steam releases.
Black soup
Black soup, mélas zomos (μέλας ζωμός) or Spartan black broth, was the pork-and-blood broth of the Spartan syssitia, made with pork, blood, salt, and vinegar; no recipe survives and outsiders mocked it.
Black Sox Scandal
Black Sox Scandal: 1919 World Series fix by eight Chicago White Sox players, also called the Chicago Black Sox conspiracy. Indicted 1920, acquitted 1921, banned for life by Commissioner Landis; myths about Comiskey's cheapness debunked.
Black Sparrow Press
Black Sparrow Press was an independent literary publisher founded by John and Barbara Martin in Los Angeles in 1966, best known for publishing almost all of Charles Bukowski's major works.
Black Speech
Black Speech (Black Speech of Mordor): fictional language created by Sauron in the Second Age to unify his servants; attested mainly through the One Ring inscription and an orc curse; extremely sparsely developed by Tolkien, unlike Qenya and Sindarin.
Black Spider
Black Spider is the name of several DC Comics Batman enemies, first Eric Needham (Detective Comics #463, 1976, by Gerry Conway and Ernie Chan), a lethal anti-drug vigilante; later Johnny LaMonica and Derrick Coe, and a New 52 Suicide Squad member.
Black Spot (Treasure Island)
The black spot is a literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island (1883): a circular paper blackened on one side with a message on the other, handed to a pirate as a verdict of guilt, deposition or death.
Black spot program
A black spot program is a government road safety funding scheme that pays for intersection upgrades, lighting, and signage at locations where serious crashes have occurred frequently.
Black squirrel
Black squirrel: melanic variant of the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), caused by an incompletely dominant 24 bp MC1R deletion; commonest around the Great Lakes and in cities, not a separate species.
Black Stalin
Black Stalin, born Leroy Calliste (1941 to 2022), was a Trinidadian calypsonian from San Fernando who won the Calypso Monarch title five times and was Calypso King of the World in 1999.
Black Standard (راية السوداء)
Black Standard (راية السوداء, rāyat al-sawdāʾ), the Black Banner or Banner of the Eagle: the black flag of Islamic tradition linked to Muhammad's banner al-ʿUqāb, the dynastic color of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the flag adopted by modern jihadist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Black Star (rap duo)
Black Star is an American hip hop duo from Brooklyn formed by rappers Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and Talib Kweli, known for their acclaimed 1998 debut album.
Black start
Black start is the procedure for restoring a power grid after a total or partial blackout, using generators that start without external power, energize transmission lines, and restart larger plants.
Black Stone (الحجر الأسود)
The Black Stone (الحجر الأسود, al-Hajar al-Aswad) is a fragmented dark stone in a silver frame at the Kaaba's southeastern corner in Mecca, marking the start and end of tawaf.
Black Stone Cherry
Black Stone Cherry is an American southern rock and hard rock band formed in 2001 in Edmonton, Kentucky, by Chris Robertson, Ben Wells, Jon Lawhon, and John Fred Young. Eight albums, multiple UK rock chart #1s, Kentucky Music Hall of Fame 2024.
Black Stone Minerals
Black Stone Minerals is a publicly traded Delaware limited partnership, headquartered in Houston, that owns oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests across 41 states.
Black suffrage
Black suffrage is the right of Black Americans to vote in US elections, guaranteed by the 15th Amendment in 1870 and enforced by the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Black Summer (TV series)
Black Summer is a Netflix zombie horror series (2019-2021), created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams as a darker prequel to Z Nation, starring Jaime King as Rose; two seasons, 16 episodes, canceled after weak viewership.
Black Sun (symbol)
Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne, Sonnenrad): a Nazi-created symbol of twelve Sig runes around a central circle, first a mosaic in Wewelsburg Castle's SS hall, now an almost always white supremacist hate symbol and swastika substitute.
Black Sunday (1960 film)
Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio, 1960) is Mario Bava's Italian black-and-white gothic horror debut, loosely based on Gogol's Viy, starring Barbara Steele as a resurrected witch; it launched the Italian horror boom.
Black Sunday (1977 film)
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, and Marthe Keller, about a plot to bomb the Super Bowl.
Black Sunday (storm)
Black Sunday was the severe dust storm of April 14, 1935, that turned midday dark across the Great Plains and gave the Dust Bowl its name.
Black Sunlight
Black Sunlight is a 1980 novel by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera about a photographer caught up with an urban guerrilla group; it was banned in Zimbabwe in 1981.
Black supremacy
Black supremacy: a racist belief in Black racial superiority and dominance, analogous to white supremacy. Article distinguishes it from Black nationalism, Black Power, and separatism, and covers the scholarly dispute over labeling black nationalist groups as hate groups.
Black swan
Black swan (Cygnus atratus), kakīānau: a large black Australian waterbird with white flight feathers and a red bill, native to Australia and Tasmania, introduced to New Zealand, Europe, and North America; IUCN Least Concern, population c.100,000–1,000,000.
Black Swan (film)
Black Swan (2010) is Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller about ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) in a New York Swan Lake production, also starring Mila Kunis; it grossed about $330 million on a $13 million budget and won Portman the Best Actress Oscar.