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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 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.
Black Swan Theatre Company
Black Swan Theatre Company, also known as Black Swan State Theatre Company, is Western Australia's state theater company, founded in Perth in 1991 and resident at the State Theatre Centre.
Black tea
Black tea (Chinese hongcha, 红茶, "red tea") is fully oxidized Camellia sinensis tea, made by withering, rolling, enzymatic oxidation, and drying; distinct from heicha dark tea, standardized in ISO 3720, with India its largest producer.
Black Test Car (黒の試走車)
Black Test Car (黒の試走車, Kuro no shisōsha) is a 1962 Daiei black-and-white industrial-espionage thriller directed by Yasuzo Masumura from Sueyuki Kajiyama's novel, starring Jiro Tamiya; first of Daiei's Black series.
Black Thought
Black Thought (Tariq Trotter, born 1973) is a Philadelphia rapper, co-founder and lead MC of the Roots, known for Things Fall Apart, the 2017 Funk Flex freestyle, and the solo Streams of Thought, Cheat Codes, and Glorious Game projects.
Black Tides
Black Tides is a survival thriller film directed by Renny Harlin. It stars John Travolta and Melissa Barrera in a story set off the southern coast of Spain.
Black tie
Black tie is a formal evening dress code built on the dinner jacket and black bow tie, less formal than white tie. Originating with an 1865 Henry Poole & Co. commission for the Prince of Wales and named the tuxedo at New York's Tuxedo Club in 1886, it is worn for evening events after 6 p.m.
Black Tie White Noise
Black Tie White Noise is David Bowie's eighteenth studio album, released in April 1993. His first solo album since 1987, it reunited him with Nile Rodgers and topped the UK chart.
Black Tiger Sex Machine
Black Tiger Sex Machine (BTSM) is a Montreal electronic trio, Marc-André Chagnon, Julien Maranda, Patrick Barry, known for LED tiger helmets, Kannibalen Records, and albums Welcome to Our Church and New Worlds.
Black Tom Cassidy
Black Tom Cassidy (Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy) is a Marvel Comics Irish mutant, cousin-rival of Banshee and partner of Juggernaut, debuting in X-Men #99 (1976); he channels force and heat blasts through a shillelagh and later serves on Krakoa's X-Force.
Black Tongue
Black Tongue is a British deathcore band from Kingston upon Hull, England, formed in January 2013, known for downtempo "Doomcore" deathcore. Members overlap with Infant Annihilator; releases include Falsifier, Born Hanged, The Unconquerable Dark (2015), and Nadir (2018).
Black Uhuru
Black Uhuru is a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1972 by Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, best known for winning reggae's first Grammy Award with Anthem.
Black Veil Brides
Black Veil Brides: American rock band formed in 2006, led by Andy Biersack, known for Kiss- and Mötley Crüe-inspired black makeup and studded glam look, albums from We Stitch These Wounds (2010) to Vindicate (2026).
Black Velvet (song)
Black Velvet (song): 1989 blues-rock ballad by Christopher Ward and David Tyson, recorded by Alannah Myles as an Elvis Presley tribute; No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, Grammy winner, UK No. 2.
Black Venus
Black Venus (Vénus noire) is Abdellatif Kechiche's 2010 French-Italian historical drama about Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", starring Yahima Torres; it competed at Venice 2010 and opened in France on 27 October 2010.
Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley
The black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley, also called the safety-pin dress or "that dress", is Gianni Versace's spring 1994 black silk gown with gold Medusa safety pins, worn by Hurley to the 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere.
Black Vulcan
Black Vulcan: Hanna-Barbera-created electric superhero of the Super Friends (1977 onward), voiced by Buster Jones, built as a royalty-avoiding substitute for DC's Black Lightning.
Black Warrant (TV series)
Black Warrant (ब्लैक वॉरंट) is a 2025 Hindi-language Netflix crime drama, seven episodes, created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh, based on Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury's 2019 memoir about Tihar Jail in the 1980s, starring Zahan Kapoor; season 2 was announced then postponed in 2025.
Black Water (2007 film)
Black Water (2007 film): Australian survival thriller by David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki, based on true events, in which three tourists are stranded in a mangrove swamp by a crocodile; made for about $1.2 million, sold to 76 countries, distinct from the American film Blackwater (2007).
Black Water (2018 film)
Black Water is a 2018 action thriller directed by Pasha Patriki, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a CIA operative imprisoned on a submarine black site.
Black White Forest (黑白森林)
Black White Forest (黑白森林) is a 2024 Tencent Video Chinese crime-suspense web drama, 28 episodes, directed by Zhao Junkai, third in his Black & White series, starring Ding Yuxi, Ning Li, and Han Xue in a lost-pistol investigation.
Black Widow (2021 film)
Black Widow (2021) is the MCU Phase Four opener directed by Cate Shortland, starring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh, released July 9, 2021 in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access, and prompting Johansson's $50 million lawsuit against Disney.
Black Widow (Iggy Azalea song)
"Black Widow" is a 2014 song by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora, the fifth single from The New Classic. Written partly by Katy Perry for Prism, produced by Stargate; peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 in the UK.
Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff, Наталия Альяновна Романова), Marvel Comics spy and Avenger, debuted in Tales of Suspense #52 (April 1964) by Lee, Rico, and Heck; Red Room-trained, Super-Soldier serum-enhanced, with 30,000-volt Widow's Bite gauntlets, distinct from the 1940 Golden Age namesake.
Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)
Black Widow (Чёрная вдова), Natalia Alianovna Romanova, aka Natasha Romanoff: Marvel Comics spy-superheroine debuting in Tales of Suspense #52 (April 1964), Red Room-trained, Super-Soldier-serum-enhanced, later an Avenger and clone-body hero.
Black Zombie
Black Zombie is a 2026 Canadian documentary by Maya Annik Bedward tracing the zombie from Haitian Vodou and slavery through Seabrook's 1929 Magic Island, White Zombie (1932), and Night of the Living Dead to Hollywood, released by Kino Lorber.
Black-and-white
Black-and-white photography is a general designation for processes producing gray or sepia tones. The daguerreotype was the first public process in 1839, followed by gelatin silver in the 1880s.
Black-figure pottery
Black-figure pottery (black-figure vase painting): ancient Greek technique, Corinthian origin c. 700-720 BC, Athenian peak with Exekias, black slip silhouettes with incised detail, replaced by red-figure after c. 530 BC.
Black-ish
Black-ish (black-ish) is an American ABC sitcom created by Kenya Barris, airing 2014-2022 over 8 seasons, following ad executive Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) raising an upper-middle-class Black family; Peabody winner, 26 Emmy nominations, spun off Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. Not the Netflix show #blackAF.