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Black Dolphin Prison (Чёрный дельфин)
Black Dolphin Prison (Чёрный дельфин), officially Penal Colony No. 6 (IK-6), is a special-regime FSIN colony in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near the Kazakhstan border, holding roughly 700 men, mostly life-sentenced, named for a black dolphin fountain sculpture.
Black Duck
Black Duck is an American application security company in Burlington, Massachusetts, formed in 2024 from Synopsys's Software Integrity Group and known for its software composition analysis product.
Black Elk
Black Elk (Heȟáka Sápa) was an Oglala Lakota holy man and Catholic catechist whose teachings shaped the books Black Elk Speaks and The Sacred Pipe.
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 fatigue
Black fatigue is the chronic exhaustion Black people experience from coping with anti-Black racism, coined by Mary-Frances Winters in her 2020 book Black Fatigue and distinct from racial battle fatigue and racial trauma.
Black feminism
Black feminism is a tradition of thought and activism by Black women analyzing interlocking racism, sexism, and class oppression; key texts include the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement and Crenshaw's 1989 intersectionality.
Black Flag Army
The Black Flag Army (黑旗军) was an irregular force led by Liu Yongfu that fought French expansion in northern Vietnam in the 1870s and 1880s.
Black Friday (1869)
Black Friday, also known as the Fisk-Gould Scandal, was the financial panic of September 24, 1869, when Jay Gould and James Fisk's failed gold corner crashed Wall Street.
Black Friday (shopping)
Black Friday is the day after US Thanksgiving and the most popular single shopping day of the year, named by Philadelphia police for post-holiday traffic chaos.
Black genocide in the United States
Black genocide in the United States: contested claim that slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration amount to genocide. Centered on the 1948 UN intent definition and the 1951 Civil Rights Congress UN petition; no legal determination has been made.
Black Guard
The Black Guard, known in Arabic as the Abid al-Bukhari (عبيد البخاري), was a standing army of slave-soldiers created by Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco in 1673.
Black Guerrilla Family
The Black Guerrilla Family, originally called the Black Family or Black Vanguard, is a prison gang founded in 1966 at San Quentin State Prison by George Jackson.
Black Hand (extortion)
The Black Hand (Mano Nera) was an American extortion method of the late 1800s and early 1900s, using mailed threat letters signed with a black hand; not an organization, it declined after Joe Petrosino's 1909 death and Postal Inspector crackdowns.
Black Hand (Уједињење или смрт) (Serbia)
Unification or Death (Уједињење или смрт), the Black Hand (Црна рука), a secret Serbian officers' society founded in Belgrade in 1911 under Apis, which supplied weapons for the 1914 Sarajevo assassination and was destroyed by the 1917 Salonica Trial.
Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, "Black Sparrow Hawk"), Sauk war leader born 1767 at Saukenuk, Illinois, who repudiated the 1804 treaty, led the 1832 Black Hawk War, and dictated a famous 1833 autobiography.
Black Hawk Purchase
The Black Hawk Purchase was a 1832 cession of about six million acres in eastern Iowa by the Sac and Fox tribes to the United States after the Black Hawk War.
Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War (1832) was a conflict in Illinois and Wisconsin between the United States and Sauk leader Black Hawk's band contesting the disputed 1804 Treaty of St. Louis, ending in the Bad Axe massacre and Native removal.
Black Hebrew Israelites
Black Hebrew Israelites, also called Hebrew Israelites, are American religious movements whose adherents hold that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites, a movement dating to the late 1890s.
Black helicopter
Black helicopter: conspiracy-theory term for unmarked dark helicopters alleged to be a UN or federal takeover force; also real dark military and law enforcement aircraft, including the CIA's Hughes 500P Quiet One.
Black Hills Expedition
The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army reconnaissance led by George Armstrong Custer in 1874 that confirmed gold in the Black Hills, land guaranteed to the Lakota.
Black Hills Gold Rush
The Black Hills Gold Rush was the influx of prospectors into the Black Hills of Dakota Territory after Custer's 1874 expedition confirmed gold, producing mining camps such as Deadwood.
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 History Month
Black History Month, or African American History Month, is the February U.S. observance of Black history, founded by Carter G. Woodson as Negro History Week in 1926 and nationally recognized since 1976.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a Fort William dungeon where, per Holwell's sole 1758 account, 146 prisoners were held on 20 June 1756 and 123 died; historians dispute the numbers, estimates ranging from nine to sixty-nine.
Black Hundreds (Чёрная сотня)
Black Hundreds (Чёрная сотня), right-monarchist parties of the Russian Empire formed during the 1905–1907 revolution to defend unlimited autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Russian dominance; largest was the Union of the Russian People; known for pogroms and assassinations.
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 July (කළු ජූලි)
Black July (කළු ජූලි) was the anti-Tamil pogrom that swept Sri Lanka from 23 July 1983, killing about 3,000 Tamils and triggering the 26-year civil war.
Black Kettle
Black Kettle (Cheyenne: Mo'ohtavetoo'o), born about 1803, was a Southern Cheyenne peace chief who signed US treaties, survived the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and died at the Washita in 1868.
Black knight
The Black knight is an Arthurian romance trope: a knight in black armor or without heraldry who hides his identity. Key examples include Chrétien's nameless knight defeated by Yvain, Moriaen the Middle Dutch Moorish hero, and modern comic and game aliases.
Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory
Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory: claims of a 13,000-year-old alien satellite in polar orbit, also called an ancient alien probe. Debunked as a composite legend; the famous STS-88 photo shows a lost thermal blanket.