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Beta Israel (ቤተ እስራኤል)
Beta Israel (ቤተ እስራኤል), also called Ethiopian Jews or formerly Falasha, is the Jewish community of northwestern Ethiopia. Known for its biblical, non-rabbinic Haymanot tradition, tribe-of-Dan origin tradition, 1973 rabbinic recognition, and the Operations Moses and Solomon airlifts that brought some 90,000 to Israel.
Bette Nash
Bette Nash (1935–2024), American flight attendant, Guinness-verified world's longest-serving and oldest active flight attendant; flew the Washington–New York–Boston shuttle from 4 November 1957 until her death.
Bettina Anderson
Bettina Anderson (Bettina Trump) is a Palm Beach socialite, model, and executive director of the nonprofit Paradise.ngo, which she co-founded in 2005; she married Donald Trump Jr. in May 2026.
Bezanozano
The Bezanozano are an ethnic group of Madagascar living in the Mangoro valley around Moramanga, on the main trade route between Imerina and the eastern coast.
Bhat (भट्ट)
Bhat (भट्ट, Sanskrit bhaṭṭa) is a South Asian surname and title meaning lord or learned one, borne by Brahmin, bard, and Muslim communities; Bhatt ranks about 2,021st worldwide with roughly 271,000 bearers, concentrated in India and Nepal.
Bhumihar
Bhumihar (Babhan) is a landowning Hindu caste of Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand claiming Brahmin status; dominant agrarian caste with caste associations, militias, and shifting forms of caste assertion.
Big U
Big U is the nickname of Eugene Henley Jr., a Los Angeles music executive, community activist, and former Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips leader, indicted in 2025 on federal RICO charges.
Biharis
Biharis, also called Stranded Pakistanis, are Urdu-speaking Muslims who migrated from Bihar and other Indian states to East Pakistan at the 1947 partition; after 1971 most were confined to camps in Bangladesh, gained court-confirmed citizenship in 2008, and still face discrimination. The term also names the people of Bihar state and Grierson's Maithili-Magahi-Bhojpuri dialect group.
Biito clan
The Biito (Babiito) are the Luo-origin royal clan of Bunyoro-Kitara and Tooro in western Uganda, named for the biito tree, founded by Isingoma Mpuga Rukidi, with about 27 kings ruling roughly 600 years.
Bin Laden family
The Bin Laden family is a wealthy Saudi family of Yemeni origin that founded the kingdom's largest construction firm, held exclusive rights to Islamic holy-site construction, and was globally known after Osama bin Laden founded al Qaeda; the Saudi state now controls over 92% of its holding group.
Binibining Pilipinas
Binibining Pilipinas (Bb. Pilipinas), Filipino for Miss Philippines, is an annual national beauty pageant in the Philippines, first held in 1964, whose winners represent the country at international pageants.
Birgitta Ed
Birgitta Ed (born 1968), Swedish priest of the Church of Sweden and wife of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson; ordained 2023 in Strängnäs, co-founded Fållöknastiftelsen, and since June 2026 under a cathedral chapter supervisory inquiry.
Birth rate
Birth rate (crude birth rate): live births per 1,000 mid-year population per year; also CBR. Core fertility measure in demography; CBR minus CDR gives natural increase; differs from total fertility rate, which adjusts for age structure.
Birth tourism
Birth tourism: traveling to another country, mainly the United States or Canada, to give birth so the child gains citizenship there. Legal via jus soli, but visa fraud if concealed; targeted by 2026 U.S. executive orders.
Birthright Israel (תגלית)
Birthright Israel (Taglit, תגלית) is a philanthropic program founded in 1999 by Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt offering free 10-day educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18-26, with over 900,000 participants from 70 countries.
Bisan Owda (بيسان عودة)
Bisan Owda (بيسان عودة), also Bisan Atef Owda, born 1997 or 1998, is a Palestinian journalist and filmmaker from Gaza whose AJ+ video series 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive' won a Peabody, an Emmy, and a Murrow Award, after an Emmy-nomination controversy over alleged PFLP ties that NATAS could not corroborate.
Bitterroot Salish
Bitterroot Salish (Séliš, also called Salish proper or Flathead), an Interior Salishan tribe of western Montana's Bitterroot Valley, now part of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on the Flathead Indian Reservation under the 1855 Hellgate Treaty.
Black British people
Black British people are UK residents identifying as Black, counted in the census category "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African"; about 2.4 million people, 4.0% of England and Wales, concentrated in London, with distinct African and Caribbean subgroups.
Black Canadians
Black Canadians: people in Canada identifying as Black, also called African Canadians; 1,547,870 (4.3%) in 2021, descended from enslaved Africans, Black Loyalists, Underground Railroad arrivals, and Caribbean and African immigrants.
Black Europeans
Black Europeans, also called Afro-Europeans or people of African descent, are people of African ancestry born in or living in Europe, estimated at 8-15 million; distinguished by presence since Roman times and FRA-documented discrimination.
Black Hispanic and Latino Americans
Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, or Afro-Latinos, are U.S. residents identifying as both Black and Hispanic or Latino; about 6 million adults in 2020, 12% of adult Latinos, mostly Puerto Rican or Dominican origin.
Black Indians in the United States
Black Indians are Americans of combined African American and Native American ancestry, shaped by slavery among Native nations, census misclassification, one-drop rules, and ongoing tribal membership and Freedmen recognition disputes.
Black Nova Scotians
Black Nova Scotians, or African Nova Scotians, are people of African descent in Nova Scotia, Canada, descended chiefly from Black Loyalists (1783), Jamaican Maroons (1796), and War of 1812 refugees, with 52 historic land-based communities.
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 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 Seminoles
Black Seminoles (Seminole freedmen, Mascogos) are descendants of escaped slaves who allied with the Seminoles in Spanish Florida, fought in the Seminole Wars, migrated to Oklahoma, Mexico (Coahuila), and Texas, served as Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, and remain distinct from Seminole Indians.
Blackfeet Nation
The Blackfeet Nation, also known as the Blackfeet Tribe, is a federally recognized Indian tribe in northwestern Montana, one of the 10 largest in the United States.
Blackfoot Confederacy
The Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksikaitsitapi, Niitsitapi) is a group of four Blackfoot-speaking nations: Siksika, Kainai (Blood), Piikani in Alberta, and Aamskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) in Montana, signatories of Treaty 7 (1877) and united since the 2000 Declaration.
Blaine Trump
Blaine Trump (Martha Lindley Blaine Beard), American socialite and philanthropist, ex-wife of Robert Trump (married 1984, divorced after 25 years), cofounder and vice chair of God's Love We Deliver.
Blood quantum laws
Blood quantum laws define Native American identity and tribal enrollment by documented fraction of "Indian blood." Rooted in the 1887 Dawes Act allotment era; BIA benchmark one-fourth; about 70% of tribes use them.