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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 and Mormonism
Black people and Mormonism covers Black members of the Latter Day Saint movement and the LDS priesthood and temple restriction of 1852 to 1978, its Cain and Ham justifications, the 1978 Official Declaration 2 revelation, and the 2013 disavowal of past racial theories.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also called the autogynephilia theory, is Ray Blanchard's classification of male-to-female transsexualism into androphilic and non-homosexual (autogynephilic) types, defined by erotic arousal at the thought of oneself as a woman; it remains scientifically influential and controversial.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell's 2005 Little, Brown book on rapid cognition and thin-slicing, following The Tipping Point, covering the Getty kouros, Gottman's marriage predictions, and critiques of expert intuition.
Blood brother
Blood brother: a person bound by a blood pact, a ritual exchange of blood creating an alliance between unrelated people. Known from Herodotus, African ethnography, and modern practice; classified as ritual kinship, with hepatitis transmission risk.
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water: an English proverb (Chinese 血浓于水, Korean 피는 물보다 진하다) meaning family ties outrank other bonds; first in English print as "Blude's thicker than water" (Ramsay, 1737), popularized by Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); the covenant "reversal" is a modern invention.
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.
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 Monday (date)
Blue Monday is the supposed "most depressing day of the year," the third Monday of January, coined in 2005 by psychologist Cliff Arnall for a Sky Travel travel marketing campaign. It has no scientific basis and is rejected by mental health experts and charities.
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.
Bluelight (web forum)
Bluelight (Bluelight.org) is an international online harm-reduction community where people who use psychoactive drugs exchange safer-use information. It has run as a non-profit since 1999.
Blushing
Blushing, or facial blushing, is the involuntary reddening of the face, ears, neck, and upper chest caused by embarrassment, shame, or perceived social scrutiny, and cannot be suppressed.
Bob Lazar
Bob Lazar (Robert Scott Lazar, born 1959) is the American claimant who said in 1989 KLAS-TV interviews with George Knapp that he reverse-engineered alien craft at S-4 near Area 51 using element 115 fuel; his credentials are unverified and the claims uncorroborated.
Bob Wells (vandweller)
Bob Wells is the American vandweller behind Cheap RV Living (blog and YouTube channel), founder of the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous and Homes on Wheels Alliance, who plays himself in Nomadland.
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.
Bobo doll experiment
Bobo doll experiment: Bandura's early-1960s Stanford studies (1961, 1963) showing preschool children imitated observed adult, filmed, or cartoon aggression toward an inflatable doll, founding evidence for social learning theory.
Bobrisky
Bobrisky (Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, born 1992) is a Nigerian social media influencer known as a crossdresser and described as a trans woman, known for the 2024 Best Dressed Female controversy and a six-month naira-abuse prison sentence.
Body Appreciation Scale
The Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring body appreciation, the acceptance and respect of one's body, published in 2005 and revised as the 10-item BAS-2.
Body language
Body language, or kinesics, is communication through facial expressions, gestures, posture, and gait. Traced to Darwin (1872); not a true language, cues are context-dependent, culturally variable, and poor lie detectors (54% accuracy).