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Black Power movement in Bermuda
The Black Power movement in Bermuda was an anticolonial youth movement against British colonialism and the island's white oligarchy in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Black separatism
Black separatism is the strand of Black nationalism advocating separate institutions, or a separate nation, for Black people, historically via the Nation of Islam, Republic of New Africa, and Garveyism; distinct from community nationalism, it rarely demands territorial exit from the United States.
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 Twitter
Black Twitter is the informal name for the networked community of African American Twitter users, named in a 2009 Medium article. Known for hashtag campaigns #BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, and its influence on US news media.
Blacklisting
Blacklisting: systematic denial of employment via lists of politically or union-troublesome people; also called black list. Spans 1880s US labor blacklists, AGLOSO, the Hollywood blacklist, and UK construction blacklisting.
Blackout Tuesday
Blackout Tuesday, June 2, 2020, a music-industry protest from #TheShowMustBePaused by Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang; black Instagram squares tagged #BlackLivesMatter drowned out activist information.
Blue Lives Matter
Blue Lives Matter is a pro-police countermovement founded in the United States in 2014 in response to Black Lives Matter; it advocates hate crime statutes covering police, enacted in Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas.
Blue Square Alliance Against Hate
Blue Square Alliance Against Hate (BSA), formerly the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, is Robert Kraft's 2019-founded 501(c)(3) nonprofit fighting antisemitism via the Blue Square symbol, Super Bowl ads, the Gillette Stadium Command Center, and the semiannual U.S. Antisemitism Landscape Survey.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale (Robert George Seale, born October 22, 1936) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland in 1966, served as Chairman, faced the Chicago Eight and New Haven trials, ran for Oakland mayor in 1973, and wrote Seize the Time.
Bohemianism
Bohemianism, from French la bohème (a term for the Romani), is the unconventional art-centered lifestyle of nineteenth-century Parisian artists defined by Henri Murger and opposed to bourgeois society, later spreading to Greenwich Village and becoming the commercialized boho chic.
Bolivian hunger strikes of 1977–1978
The Bolivian hunger strikes of 1977–1978 began with four miners' wives in La Paz and grew to about 1,200 strikers, forcing dictator Hugo Banzer to grant amnesty.
Boneghazi
Boneghazi, or the stealing human bones controversy, was a December 2015 Tumblr scandal accusing New Orleans witch Ender Darling of taking cemetery bones for rituals; it spawned memes and a January 2016 police raid.
Boycott
Boycott: collective refusal to buy from, work for, or deal with a target to force change, named after Captain Charles Boycott, ostracized in Ireland in 1880; a core nonviolent-resistance tactic.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led campaign launched 9 July 2005 by over 170 organizations, demanding an end to occupation, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and refugee rights, modeled on anti-apartheid South Africa.
Breast ironing
Breast ironing, also called breast flattening, is the practice of pressing pubescent girls' breasts with hot objects to delay development, reported most often in Cameroon.
Bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping, or ala kachuu (кыз ала качуу), is forced marriage by abduction, most associated with Kyrgyzstan. Rare before Soviet rule, it grew from the 1970s, driven by rigid bride prices, shame norms, and weak enforcement.
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي)
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي), Lebanese-born American activist and founder of ACT for America (2007), an SPLC-designated anti-Muslim group; former Middle East TV anchor, author, and 2025 Menachem Begin Prize recipient.
Bullying
Bullying is repeated aggressive behavior among youth involving a power imbalance, in person or online (cyberbullying). US school prevalence about 19%, with meta-analyses showing school anti-bullying programs reduce perpetration and victimization.
Burial vault (enclosure)
Burial vault (enclosure), also called outer burial container: a sealed, casket-enclosing grave structure, distinct from the simpler grave liner; not legally required in the U.S. but often mandated by cemeteries; concrete vaults date to Leo Haase's 1880 company.
Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh, born 1982, is a British-Pakistani media commentator and former fashion entrepreneur who competed on The Apprentice in 2017 and founded the anti-racism organization Run Racism Out.
Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is an annual anti-consumerism protest day founded in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and Adbusters, urging a 24-hour buying moratorium on Black Friday each November.
C. P. Ellis
C.P. Ellis (Claiborne Paul Ellis, 1927–2005), Durham KKK Exalted Grand Cyclops who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Ann Atwater, renounced the Klan, and became a civil rights activist and union organizer.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh, also known as Kamylā Batmanghelych, was an Iranian-born British psychotherapist and charity leader who founded Kids Company in London in 1996 and led it until its 2015 closure.
Camille Étienne
Camille Étienne (born 1998) is a French climate and social justice activist, Sciences Po and Oxford alumna, spokesperson of On Est Prêt, author of Pour un soulèvement écologique (2023), and PFAS campaigner.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is a British advocacy group founded in 1958 that campaigns for abolishing nuclear weapons, best known for the Aldermaston marches, the slogan Ban the Bomb, and its peace symbol logo.
Canada convoy protest
Canada convoy protest (Freedom Convoy): 2022 trucker demonstrations against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that occupied Ottawa and blockaded U.S. border crossings, prompting Canada's first-ever Emergencies Act invocation, later ruled unreasonable by the Federal Court of Appeal.
Cancel culture
Cancel culture is the public calling out and ostracism of norm transgressors on social media, involving shaming, boycotts, and deplatforming. Rooted in Black Twitter callout practice, widely discussed after #MeToo and the 2020 Harper's letter.
Cangaço
Cangaço was a form of rural banditry in the backlands of Northeastern Brazil from roughly 1870 to 1940, whose most famous leader was Lampião, the "King of the Cangaço".
Cannibalism in Asia
Cannibalism in Asia covers both actual human anthropophagy in Asian history, from Tang-dynasty Arabic accounts to famine-era records, and the colonial and imperial discourses that attributed cannibalism to Asian peoples.
Capitol Crawl
The Capitol Crawl was a disability rights protest on March 12, 1990, when about 60 activists of the ADAPT-led march crawled up the 78 Capitol steps to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed July 26, 1990.