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Black Legion (political movement)
The Black Legion was a white supremacist terrorist offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, active mainly in Michigan and Ohio from 1925 to 1936, with about 30,000 Michigan members, up to 50 murders, and collapse after the 1936 Poole murder convictions.
Black Liberation Army
The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground US urban guerrilla group formed by a split from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s, following Marighella's doctrine, active roughly 1970-1976 in bombings, robberies, and police shootings.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM): decentralized US-founded movement begun in 2013 as #BlackLivesMatter after Zimmerman's acquittal, protesting police violence against Black people, with chapters, the BLM Global Network Foundation, the M4BL coalition, and 2020 global protests.
Black Madonna
A Black Madonna, also called a Black Virgin, is an image of Mary with a dark face and hands, venerated at hundreds of European shrines.
Black Madonna of Częstochowa
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa, is a Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin Mary venerated at Jasna Góra monastery in Poland since the 14th century.
Black Mafia
The Black Mafia was a Philadelphia African American organized crime group formed in the 1960s, distinct from Detroit's Black Mafia Family (BMF), known for extortion, heroin trafficking, the 1972 Club Harlem and 1973 Hanafi massacre murders, and the Junior Black Mafia successor.
Black Mafia Family
Black Mafia Family (BMF), cocaine trafficking and money laundering organization founded in early 1990s Detroit by Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory; dismantled in 2005 by Operation Motor City Mafia; also the name of the 2021 Starz drama series.
Black magic
Black magic: umbrella label for supernatural practices believed to cause harm or control, also called sorcery or maleficium; distinguished from white magic by intent, shaped by culture, law, and the identity of the accused.
Black Manosphere
The Black manosphere is the branch of the anti-feminist manosphere populated by Black men defending Black male authority; known for Fresh and Fit creators, patriarchal gender scripts, and Pick-Me women creators.
Black market
A black market, also known as the shadow or underground economy, is a market where illegal goods, or legal goods traded illegally, are exchanged outside state oversight and taxation.
Black Mass
The Black Mass (Le Messe Noir) is a claimed inverted imitation of the Catholic Mass, largely a literary construction that became real practice in the twentieth century.
Black Monday (1987)
Black Monday was the October 19, 1987 stock market crash in which the Dow fell 508 points, or 22.6 percent, its largest one-day percentage decline, erasing over $500 billion.
Black Mountain Bandits
The Black Mountain Bandits (黑山军) were a loose confederation of bandit bands active in the Taihang mountain valleys of northern China in the final decades of the Han dynasty, led by Zhang Yan.
Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was a nonaccredited, faculty-owned experimental liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, founded by John Andrew Rice, led artistically by Bauhaus emigres Josef and Anni Albers, with about 1,200 students and alumni including Cage, Cunningham, and Rauschenberg.
Black nationalism
Black nationalism is a two-century-old African American political tradition holding that Black people form a distinct nation needing solidarity and self-determination, from David Walker and Martin Delany through Garvey's UNIA, the Nation of Islam, and Black Power.
Black Nova Scotians
Black Nova Scotians, or African Nova Scotians, are people of African descent in Nova Scotia, Canada, descended chiefly from Black Loyalists (1783), Jamaican Maroons (1796), and War of 1812 refugees, with 52 historic land-based communities.
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is an inscribed Neo-Assyrian limestone monument erected in 825 BC at Kalhu, best known for a relief of the Israelite king Jehu paying tribute.
Black Opal Ventures
Black Opal Ventures is a New York venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Tara Bishop and Eileen Tanghal, investing early-stage in deep technologies applied to healthcare and life sciences.
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party (BPP), originally Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: revolutionary Black nationalist-socialist organization founded Oct 15, 1966, in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; known for armed self-defense, the Ten-Point Program, free breakfast and health clinics, and FBI COINTELPRO repression.
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 ancient Roman history
Black people in ancient Roman history: Africans and dark-skinned people ('Aethiopes') across the Roman Empire, including Septimius Severus and black soldiers in Roman Britain, with ancient racial categorization and bioarchaeological evidence.
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 Power Revolution
The Black Power Revolution, also called the February Revolution, was a wave of protests, strikes, and an army mutiny in Trinidad and Tobago in 1970.
Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355
The Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355, the Grande Chevauchée, was an Anglo-Gascon mounted raid from Bordeaux across Languedoc to the Mediterranean, 5 October to 2 December 1355, with Count Armagnac avoiding battle.
Black propaganda
Black propaganda: propaganda falsely attributed to a source, often within the target group; contrasted with white and grey propaganda. Practiced by OSS Morale Operations, British wartime services, and KGB disinformation; fragile in effect.
Black Repartition
Black Repartition (Чёрный передел) was a Russian revolutionary populist organization founded in 1879 by Georgi Plekhanov after the split of Land and Liberty; it rejected terrorism and worked through propaganda among workers.
Black Riders Liberation Party
Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP): a black nationalist, revolutionary socialist group founded in 1996 in California by General T.A.C.O. (Mischa Culton), styling itself the New Generation Black Panther Party; designated a black separatist hate group by the SPLC.
Black Rod
Black Rod, formally the Lady or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, is the senior House of Lords officer who maintains order in the Lords and famously knocks three times on the Commons door at State Opening; Ed Davis has held the Crown appointment since July 2025.