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Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran
Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran is a Norwegian Labour Party politician who became Minister of Local Government and Regional Development in September 2025, succeeding Kjersti Stenseng, and works on housing construction and northern Norway policy.
Blacas ewer
The Blacas ewer is a brass ewer inlaid with silver and copper, made in Mosul in 1232 by Shuja' ibn Man'a al-Mausili and held by the British Museum since 1866.
Blacas papyri
The Blacas papyri are Imperial Aramaic papyri from Saqqara, Egypt, dating to the late 5th and 4th centuries BC, mostly fragments of the Story of Ahiqar.
Blaccent
Blaccent, blend of black + accent, colloquial term for imitation of Black English by non-Black speakers; first recorded 2003, pejorative since about 2010; linguists describe AAE as many varieties, not one accent.
Black Agenda Now / The Black Agenda
Black Agenda Now, operating as The Black Agenda, is a Las Vegas organization founded in 2024 that presents itself as an economic advancement platform for Black communities.
Black American Sign Language
Black American Sign Language, or Black ASL, is a distinct variety of American Sign Language that developed in segregated Southern deaf schools and serves many Black Deaf communities.
Black and Tans
Black and Tans: British ex-servicemen recruited as Royal Irish Constabulary constables from January 1920 during the Irish War of Independence, named for mixed green-and-khaki uniforms; distinct from the ex-officer Auxiliary Division (ADRIC), notorious for reprisals.
Black armband protest
The black armband protest: Zimbabwe cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga wore black armbands, actually insulation tape, at the 2003 Cricket World Cup opener against Namibia to mourn the death of democracy under Mugabe, ending their Zimbabwe careers.
Black Army
The Black Army (Fekete sereg) was the standing mercenary army of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, founded in 1459 and crushed by Paul Kinizsi in 1492.
Black Bart (outlaw)
Black Bart was the alias of Charles E. Boles, an American stagecoach robber who held up 28 Wells Fargo stages in Northern California and southern Oregon between 1875 and 1883.
Black billionaires
Black billionaires are people Forbes identifies as Black worth at least $1 billion; Forbes counted 27 in 2026, led by the Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote.
Black bloc
Black bloc: a masked, all-black protest tactic, not an organization, originating with West Berlin squatters (Schwarzer Block, 1980) and the Autonomen; famous for Seattle 1999, Genoa 2001, and swarming property damage.
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 budget
The black budget, or confidential and intelligence funds, is the classified portion of US government spending, chiefly the National Intelligence and Military Intelligence Programs, about 11% of defense spending.
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 church
The Black church, also known as the African American church, is the collective term for independent Christian congregations and denominations founded by African Americans, tracing back to 1787.
Black Codes (United States)
Black Codes were discriminatory state laws passed by Southern legislatures in 1865–1866 during Presidential Reconstruction, regulating freedmen's labor through contracts, vagrancy, and apprenticeship; Congress answered with the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Black Company
Black Company (German Schwarzer Haufen) names the Franconian peasant band of Florian Geyer formed in 1525, the Schwarze Bande landsknechts destroyed at Pavia 1525, and Glen Cook's mercenary fantasy brotherhood.
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM): South African anti-apartheid movement of the late 1960s-1970s led by Steve Biko; founded via SASO (1969), BPC (1972); emphasized psychological liberation, inclusive 'blackness', inspired the 1976 Soweto Uprising.
Black conservatism in the United States
Black conservatism in the United States, or African-American conservatism, is a body of political thought in which African Americans endorse self-help, individualism, limited government, and gradual social change.
Black Cube
Black Cube is an Israeli private intelligence firm founded by Dan Zorella and Avi Yanus, staffed by ex-Israeli intelligence veterans, known for HUMINT sting operations for Weinstein, ENRC, and litigation clients, and for court findings of abuse of process.
Black Dahlia
Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short, 22, found murdered in Los Angeles January 15, 1947, body severed at waist; unsolved despite 22 major suspects, dozens of false confessions; investigation closed 1950.
Black Dahlia suspects
Black Dahlia suspects: proposed killers of Elizabeth Short, murdered in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Named candidates include George Hodel, Walter Bayley, Leslie Dillon, and Marvin Margolis; the case remains unsolved.
Black Death in al-Andalus
The Black Death in al-Andalus (مجاعة وطاعون الأندلس) was the mid-14th-century plague outbreak in Muslim Iberia, striking Almeria in 1348 and reaching the Nasrid court in Granada.
Black Death in England
Black Death in England: the Yersinia pestis epidemic arriving from France in 1348, killing roughly 40% (estimates 30-50%) of the population, triggering the Ordinance and Statute of Labourers, recurrent outbreaks, and long demographic depression.
Black Death in Rus
The Black Death in Rus (Моровая язва 1352 года) was a plague epidemic that reached Novgorod in 1352 and killed Grand Prince Simeon of Moscow in 1353.
Black Death in the Maghreb
The Black Death in the Maghreb (الطاعون الأسود في المغرب) was the mid-fourteenth-century plague pandemic in Islamic North Africa, striking Tunis and Tlemcen between 1347 and 1351 or 1353.
Black Death in the Middle East
The Black Death in the Middle East (الطاعون الأسود) struck the Mamluk Sultanate between 1347 and 1351, killing an estimated one-quarter to one-third of Egypt's population.
Black Diamond Therapeutics
Black Diamond Therapeutics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company founded in 2014, developing MasterKey inhibitors against families of oncogenic mutations; its lead drug is silevertinib.
Black Disciples
Black Disciples (BDs), a Chicago street gang founded by David Barksdale in 1966, once part of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation with Larry Hoover's Gangster Disciples; ran a massive 1989-2004 South and West Side drug-trafficking organization dismantled in a 2004 47-defendant federal takedown.