All articles starting with N

Negribreen

Negribreen, a ~40 km tidewater glacier in central eastern Svalbard draining into Storfjorden, surged in 1935-1936 and again from 2015-2016, reaching over 25 m/day, one of Svalbard's fastest-flowing glaciers.

Negrillar, La

La Negrillar (Aguas Perdidas) is a basaltic andesite pyroclastic cone and lava flow complex in Antofagasta, Chile, near Socompa volcano; 4,220 m elevation, ~50 km², no confirmed Holocene eruptions, distinct from the El Negrillar volcanic field.

Oct 22, 2026

Negrista poetry

Negrista poetry (Spanish poesía negra, also called negroide or afroantillana) is a Latin American poetry current that emerged in the Caribbean in the early 1920s, recreating black dance rhythms and Afro-descendant speech.

Negrita

Negrita is an Italian rock band from Arezzo formed in the early 1990s and named after the Rolling Stones song "Hey! Negrita", led by singer Pau Bruni.

Negrito

Negrito is a Spanish-origin anthropological term for short-statured, dark-skinned, frizzy-haired indigenous groups in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, and Andaman Islands, including the Semang, Maniq, Aeta, and Andamanese; genetics shows they are not one population.

Négritude

Négritude, a 1930s Paris literary and ideological movement of French-speaking Black intellectuals founded by Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas, rejecting French colonial assimilation and affirming Black culture, history, and identity.

Negro

Negro: historical English term for people of Black African descent, from Spanish/Portuguese negro (Latin niger); standard US census and official usage 1900–2010, now considered offensive, replaced by Black and African American.

Negro (river, Colombia)

Río Negro (Colombia): name shared by several rivers, including a Magdalena tributary in Cundinamarca–Boyacá (4,238 km² basin), the Antioquia Negro–Nare river, and the Amazonian Rio Negro, called the Guainía in Colombia.

Negro (river, Uruguay)

Río Negro (Uruguay): 850 km river rising in Brazil's sierra de Santa Tecla, principal tributary of the Uruguay River, dividing Uruguay north and south; basin 68,214 km2, flow 520 m3/s, three UTE hydroelectric dams, monitored for water quality since 2009.

Negro Actors Guild of America

Negro Actors Guild of America (NAG), welfare and benevolent organization for Black performers founded in New York City in 1936-1937 by Fredi Washington, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters; gave financial aid, fought stereotyping, published The Negro Actor, and dissolved in 1981-1982.

Negro American League

Negro American League (NAL), Black professional baseball league founded 1937 under Dr. J.B. Martin as successor to Rube Foster's Negro National League; Midwest-based, home of the Kansas City Monarchs and East-West All-Star Game; MLB-recognized major league 1937-1948, operated into the early 1960s.

Negro Ensemble Company

Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), founded 1967 in New York by Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks, and Gerald Krone, is a Black repertory theater company. Producer of over 200 plays, home of A Soldier's Play and The River Niger, distinct from Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater.

Negro league baseball

Negro league baseball: professional African American baseball leagues, founded with the 1920 Negro National League by Rube Foster, that operated under segregation until the 1950s; MLB recognized seven leagues (1920-1948) as major leagues in 2020.

Negro National League (1920–1931)

Negro National League (I), 1920-1931, first sustained Black professional baseball league, founded by Rube Foster in Kansas City; folded in the Depression; granted MLB major league status in 2020.

Negroid

Negroid is an obsolete racial-classification term from 19th- and 20th-century physical anthropology, grouped with Caucasoid and Mongoloid, once denoting sub-Saharan Africans, Melanesians, and some southern Asian peoples; now marked offensive and scientifically rejected.

Negroni

Negroni: Italian cocktail of equal parts gin, Campari, and sweet red vermouth, created 1919 at Caffè Casoni, Florence, for Count Camillo Negroni; IBA Unforgettables classic with Sbagliato and Boulevardier variants.

Negros

Negros (native name Buglas) is the fourth-largest Philippine island in the Visayas, split into Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental since 1890, famed for sugar, Kanlaon volcano, and the 2024 Negros Island Region.

Negros Occidental

Negros Occidental is a Philippine province on the northwestern half of Negros Island, capital Bacolod City, known as the Sugarbowl of the Philippines; created January 1, 1890, now in the Negros Island Region under RA 12000 (2024).

Oct 20, 2026

Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA)

The Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area is a coastal wetland complex in the Philippines, designated a Ramsar site in October 2016, the country's seventh.

Negros Oriental

Negros Oriental: Philippine province on the eastern half of Negros island, capital Dumaguete; created January 1, 1890; 1.49 million people (2024); part of the Negros Island Region since 2024.

Negub tunnel

The Negub tunnel (Negūb) is a Neo-Assyrian rock-cut tunnel and canal complex in the Zab valley, part of the canal network irrigating the land around Nimrud.

Negura Bunget

Negură Bunget is a Romanian black metal band formed in Timișoara in 1995, whose 2006 album Om brought international fame before founder Negru's death in 2017.

Sep 24, 2026

Negus Mikael of Wollo

Negus Mikael of Wollo, born Mohammed Ali, was a Muslim ruler of Wollo in Ethiopia who converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1878 and was crowned king in 1914.

Neha Bansal

Neha Bansal is an Indian business executive and chartered accountant who co-founded the eyewear company Lenskart in 2008, serving as Executive Director and Global Head of Merchandising.

Neha Bhasin

Neha Bhasin (born 1982, New Delhi) is an Indian singer who rose to fame in the girl group Viva after winning Channel V's Popstars in 2002, then became a Filmfare-winning playback singer for songs like "Jag Ghoomeya" (Sultan) and an independent Punjabi folk/pop artist on her own label 5am.