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Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (Harold Moore Jr., 1948–2001), American black nationalist, Nation of Islam spokesman under Louis Farrakhan, later New Black Panther Party chairman; notorious for the 1993 Kean College antisemitic speech and the 1998 Million Youth March.
Khalkha Mongols
Khalkha Mongols (Халх), the majority ethnic group of Mongolia in its central and eastern regions; their Khalkha dialect is the national standard language, spoken by over 5 million people, with history as an eastern Mongol group distinct from the Oirats since the fifteenth century.
Khasi people
Khasi people (Hynniewtrep, Children of Seven Huts): Austroasiatic-speaking indigenous people of Meghalaya, India, known for their matrilineal clan system, Ka Khadduh inheritance, sacred groves, and resistance leader U Tirot Sing.
Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ)
The Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ) are a Punjabi community of northern India historically associated with trade, accounting, and civil administration; all ten Sikh Gurus were born into Khatri families.
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry: claim that Ashkenazi Jews descend largely from the Khazars, Turkic converts to Judaism; popularized by Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, contested by genome-wide and ancient DNA studies.
Khazarian Mafia
Khazarian Mafia, or Khazar Mafia, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming Ashkenazi Jews descend from Khazar converts and secretly control global finance and politics; historians and geneticists reject it, and it was used to justify Russia's Ukraine invasion.
Khitan people
Khitan (契丹, Хятан), Mongolic-speaking nomads of Manchuria who founded the Liao empire (907-1125), fell to the Jurchen Jin, left the partially deciphered Khitan scripts, and gave China the name Cathay; modern Daur descent debated.
Khmer Krom
The Khmer Krom (ខ្មែរក្រោម, "lower Khmer") are the ethnic Khmer minority of southern Vietnam, living in the Mekong Delta, speaking Khmer, and practicing Theravada Buddhism.
Khmer people
Khmer people: Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group of Cambodia, heirs of the 9th–15th century Khmer Empire of Angkor; 95.8% of Cambodia's population; Theravada Buddhist; Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam; large Thai labor migrant and US diaspora populations.
Khoisan
Khoisan (Khoe-San) is the cover term for southern Africa's indigenous non-Bantu click-speaking peoples: San hunter-gatherers and Khoekhoe pastoralists, grouped into the Kx'a, Tuu, and Khoe-Kwadi language families, with deep genetic divergence and a history of colonial dispossession.
Khoja (خواجہ)
Khoja (خواجہ), from Persian khwajah, denotes South Asian Muslim trading-caste communities from Sindh and Gujarat, historically Satpanthi and now divided into Ismaili, Twelver, and Sunni Khoja groups after the 1866 Aga Khan Case.
Khorchin Mongols
The Khorchin Mongols (Хорчин) are a Mongol people of Inner Mongolia, China, descended from Khasar, a brother of Chinggis Khan, and among the first Mongols to ally with the Manchus.
Kibbutz (קיבוץ)
Kibbutz (קיבוץ), Israeli voluntary collective community founded at Degania in 1909–1910; equal income sharing, communal child-rearing, border defense role, and post-1990s privatization into renewed kibbutzim.
Kickapoo
The Kickapoo (Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people from the Great Lakes, now in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico, divided into bands after ten US treaties and known for retaining traditional culture.
Kikuyu people
The Kikuyu people, also called Agikuyu or Gikuyu, are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of central Kenya around Mount Kenya who form Kenya's largest ethnic group, at 17.1% of the population in 2019.
Killing baby Hitler
Killing baby Hitler is a thought experiment asking whether one would travel back in time to kill Adolf Hitler as an infant to prevent the Holocaust.
Killing of Brianna Ghey
Murder of Brianna Ghey, 16-year-old transgender girl stabbed 28 times in Culcheth Linear Park, Warrington, on 11 February 2023 by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, jailed for minimum 22 and 20 years.
Killing of Charlie Howard
The killing of Charlie Howard was the July 7, 1984 anti-gay murder of a 23-year-old man thrown from Bangor, Maine's State Street bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream by three teenagers later convicted of manslaughter; it galvanized Maine LGBTQ+ rights organizing and EqualityMaine.
Kim Davis
Kim Davis, former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk, refused same-sex marriage licenses after Obergefell (2015), was jailed for contempt, lost a $360,000 damages judgment, and was denied Supreme Court review in 2020 and 2025.
Kim Maria
Kim Maria (김마리아, born Sang-jin; 1892–1944) was a Korean independence activist and educator who led the Korean Patriotic Women's Association and served in the Korean Provisional Government's assembly.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw, American legal scholar at Columbia and UCLA who coined "intersectionality" in 1989, elaborated it in 1991, co-founded the African American Policy Forum, and launched #SayHerName.
Kinesics
Kinesics, also known as kinemics, is the study of body movements, such as gestures, facial expressions, and posture, as communication in social interaction, often called body language.
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies: an informal title claimed by or conferred on various Romani leaders from medieval Corfu and Poland to Kirk Yetholm, Romania's Cioabă family, and American claimants, carrying no real authority.
King of the Zulu Nation
King of the Zulu Nation (Isilo), hereditary monarch of South Africa's amaZulu. Current king Misuzulu kaZwelithini (recognized 2022, upheld 2025); predecessor Goodwill Zwelithini reigned 53 years; sole trustee of the 2.8-million-hectare Ingonyama Trust.
King's Daughters
King's Daughters names two unrelated subjects: the Filles du roi, about 800 women sent by Louis XIV to New France 1663-1673, and the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons, a Christian service order founded in New York in 1886 whose circles founded hospitals including CHKD.
Kink (sexuality)
Kink, closely tied to BDSM, is an umbrella term for consensual sexual interests outside cultural norms, including power exchange, fetishism, and pain play; prevalence estimates range from a few percent to nearly half, and clinical guidelines now support kink-affirming care.
Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, or Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, is a 0-to-6 continuum plus X created by Alfred Kinsey's team, first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), rating sexual orientation from interview histories rather than any official test.
Kinship
Kinship: the culturally recognized web of relationships based on descent, marriage, and created ties; central topic of anthropology from Morgan's 1871 terminology classification through Schneider's 1984 critique to new kinship studies.
Kinship care
Kinship care, also called family and friends care, is the raising of children by relatives or close family friends rather than parents. It spans informal, voluntary, and formal arrangements; about 141,000 children in England and Wales live in it, and outcomes beat unrelated foster care but trail the general population.
Kiowa
Kiowa, a Southern Plains Native American tribe of Oklahoma and Texas, speaking a Tanoan-related language; allied with the Comanche around 1790, signed the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty, held its last Sun Dance in 1887.