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Black Friday (1910) Black Friday was an event on 18 November 1910 when approximately 300 suffragettes campaigned outside the British House of Commons when the Liberal government of Herbert Asquith failed to pass a Conciliation Bill which would allow some women to vote in General Elections for the first time.
Black Friday (1921) Black Friday, in British labour history, refers to 15 April 1921, when the leaders of transport and rail unions announced a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners. The epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners.
Black Friday (1939) The Black Friday fires of January 13, 1939, in Victoria, Australia, are considered one of the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world, and most certainly the single worst in Australian history as a measure of land affected. Almost 20,000 km² (4,942,000 acres) of land were burnt, 71 people died, several towns were entirely destroyed, and the Royal Commission that resulted from it led to major changes in forest management.
Black Friday (1944) Black Friday was the nickname given by The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada to the date 13 October 1944. On that day, during the Battle of the Scheldt, the regiment attacked over 1,200 yards of open beet fields and suffered 145 casualties, including 56 dead.
Black Friday (1945) Black Friday is used to refer to the air battle waged between German and British aircraft over Norway on 9 February 1945. A number of warships of the Kriegsmarine entered the Førdefjorden to avoid British reconnaissance aircraft.
Black Friday (1978) Black Friday was a series of mass protests that occurred on September 8, 1978 (17 Shahrivar 1357 AP) in Tehran, Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, declared martial law in response to protests against his rule.
Black Friday (Maldives) Black Friday (Dhivehi: ކަޅު ހުކުރު), August 13, 2004, was the crackdown by the Maldivian National Security Service (NSS) — later Maldivian National Defence Force — on a peaceful protesthttp://news.amnesty.
Black Friday (shopping) Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.
Black Front Otto Strasser formed the Black Front (formally known as the Union of Revolutionary National Socialists) after his expulsion from the NSDAP in 1930. Strasser believed the original anti-capitalist nature of the NSDAP had been betrayed by Adolf Hitler.
Black gay The African American (Black) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) also known as the "Same Gender Loving" community is often mistakenly lumped into the same political, social, and psychological construct of the mainstream white LGBT community. Over the past twenty years, an increasingly large number of African American same-gender loving (LGBT) people have surfaced to add new and culturally insightful voices to the controversial subject of homosexuality in America.
Black gold (politics) Black gold () is a term used in the Republic of China (Taiwan) to refer to political corruption. The term refers to the obtaining of money (the "gold") through a dark, secretive, and corrupt method (the "black").
Black gospel Black gospel music is primarily a marketing term used to help potential buyers distinguish it from other forms of Christian music, such as contemporary Christian music or Christian rock and Southern gospel (a merger of barbershop quartet style harmony and country instrumentation, see also Southern Gospel Music Association), which have similar lyrical form but very different musical styling.
Black Gate (magazine) Black Gate is a glossy, quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine founded in 2000 and published by New Epoch Press. Using the slogan "Adventures in Fantasy Literature," Black Gate primarily features original short fiction up to novella length.
Black Gold (album) Black Gold is a live album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933-2003) recorded in 1969 at the Philharmonic Hall, New York. It is esspecially notable because it features the civil rights anthem song "To Be Young Gifted And Black".
Black Gold (Oil) Black gold is a slang term that usually refers to petroleum. The name is derived from the black color of crude oil combined with its status as a highly valuable resource, serving in the industrial age, in many ways, the same role that gold did in the pre-industrial era.
Black Grape Black Grape were a rock and roll band from England, formed in 1993 by former members of Happy Mondays, Shaun Ryder and Bez. They recruited rappers Kermit and Jed, plus guitarist Wags, formerly of the Manchester-based group the Paris Angels.
Black Grave The Black Grave () () is the largest burial mound (kurgan) in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Comparable to the barrows of Gnyozdovo near Smolensk, the Black Grave has a height of 11 meters and a circumference of 125 meters.
Black Guard Black Guard (in Arabic, Abid, from a root meaning "slave") were the corps of black-African slave-soldiers assembled by the Alaouite sultan of Morocco, Mawlay Ismail (reigned 1672-1727). The Black Guard descended from black captives brought to Morocco from sub-Saharan Africa, who were settled in a special colony and given wives; their male offspring would be pressed into military careers at the age of sixteen.
Black Guerrilla Family The Black Guerrilla Family (also known as the Black Family or the Black Vanguard) was founded in 1966 by George Jackson while he was in San Quentin. The gang is mostly a politically oriented gang established as an African-American Marxist revolutionary organization.
Black hair Black hair is a hair colour characterized by being completely black, or at least closer to black in pigmentation than to darkest brown, which is to say shades of technically dark brown hair that are so extremely dark that simply calling them "dark brown" would do them an injustice. Such shades might as well be black, as that is how they are most commonly perceived.
Black hat Originally all people with a high level of skills at computing were known as hackers. Over time, the distinction between those perceived to use such skills with social responsibility and those who used them maliciously or criminally, became perceived as an important divide.
Black helicopters Black helicopters are part of a conspiracy theory, especially prevalent among the US militia movement, that claims that special unmarked black helicopters are used by secret agents of the New World Order, United Nations troops and/or the Men in Black preparing to take control of the United States, or for other nefarious purposes.
Black hole electron In physics, there is a speculative notion that if there were a black hole with the same mass and charge as an electron, it would share many of the properties of the electron including the magnetic moment and Compton wavelength.
Black hole thermodynamics In physics, black hole thermodynamics is essentially the theoretical study of energy and entropy at the boundary regions of black holes. It is generally recognized that this is a special field of research, having been created within the last 30 years, entirely centered around the thermodynamics of black holes.
Black house The black house is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Highland Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland and areas of Gaelic settlement in Nova Scotia. It was generally built with double wall dry-stone walls packed with earth and wooden rafters covered with a turf roof, although reed thatch was occasionally used as the roofing material.
Black Hand Black Hand (Serbian: Црна рука / Crna Ruka), officially Unification or Death (Serbian: Уједињење или смрт / Ujedinjenje ili smrt) was a secret society founded in Serbia in May 1911Black HandThe Black Hand: The Secret Serbian Terrorist Society as part of the Pan-Slavism nationalist movement, with the intention of uniting all of the territories containing Serb populations (notably Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed by Austria-Hungary in October 1908). The society's implication in the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria is considered to have been the main catalyst to the start of World War I.
Black Hand (Palestine) The Black Hand () was an underground Islamist militant organization that operated in the British Mandate of Palestine. It was founded in 1930 and led by Syrian-born Shaykh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam until his death in 1935.
Black Hand (World of Darkness) The Black Hand are a fictional sect of vampires, composed of several clans and bloodlines, from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. The name comes from their symbol, an inverted black hand print.
Black Hand Inn Black Hand Inn is the eighth Running Wild studio album, released March 24, 1994 by Noise Records. It is a loose concept album about a resurrected man, against a backdrop of piracy, foreseeing armageddon and is often considered one of the band's best albums.
Black Hat and Mirror Shades The phrase "Black Hat and Mirror Shades" refers to the image of stereotypical image of mysterious government agents, those envisioned in conspiracy theories and the stories and movies spawned from said theories. This "mysterious agent" is generally in a dark (but not necessarily black) suit, sunglasses (mirrored, of course), often with an earpiece (for talking to fellow agents), and sometimes a black (or, again, dark) hat.
Black Hawk (Amtrak) The Black Hawk was an Amtrak route from Chicago, Illinois, to Dubuque, Iowa, using Budd Company rail diesel cars between 1974 and approximately 1978 when the RDCs were replaced with Amfleet equipment using EMD F40PH diesel locomotives. Service ended in 1981.
Black Hawk (chief) Black Hawk or Black Sparrow Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak) (1767–October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe in what is now the United States. While he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not an hereditary civil chief of the Sauk.
Black Hawk (nightclub) The Black Hawk was a legendary San Francisco nightclub hosting a spectacular range of jazz talents during its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Cal Tjader, Shelly Manne and many more jazz luminaries played and recorded live albums there.
Black Hawk State Historic Site The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, occupies much of the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation. The state park is located on a 150-foot (45m) bluff overlooking the Rock River in western Illinois.
Black Hawk Statue Originally named 'The Eternal Indian', the Black Hawk Statue (or Memorial) is a large lighted statue of a native American Indian by Lorado Taft. It is located in Lowden State Park on a bluff overlooking the east bank of the Rock River north of Oregon, Illinois.
Black Hawk War The Black Hawk War was fought in 1832 in the Midwestern United States. The war was named for Black Hawk, the leader of a band of Sauk and Fox Indians, who fought against the United States Army and militia from Illinois and the Michigan Territory (present-day Wisconsin) for possession of lands in the area.
Black Hebrew Israelites Black Hebrew Israelites (also Black Hebrews, African Hebrew Israelites, Hebrew Israelites) are groups of people of African ancestry situated mostly in the United States who claim to be descendants of the ancient Israelites. They claim that they and many Africans, and blacks in places like Brazil, Madagascar, and the Caribbean are also descended from the Israelites.
Black Heung Jin Nim Black Heung Jin Nim is the name given by members of the Unification Church to refer to a Zimbabwean member named Cleophas during the period of time that he was approved by Sun Myung Moon as a continuous mediumistic channel for Heung Jin Moon, the second son of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hakja Han Moon, after his death at age 17 in 1982.
Black Hill Conservation Park Black Hill Conservation Park is a public reserve approximately 10 km northeast of Adelaide, in the state of South Australia, Australia. The park is in a rugged bush environment, with a prominent peak, bounded by steep ridges on the southern slopes.
Black Hill transmitting station The Black Hill transmitting station is a facility for FM and TV broadcasting on Black Hill (), North Lanarkshire, Scotland near the town of Airdrie on the eastern outskirts of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area. It has a guyed mast 306.
Black Hills Ammunition Black Hills Ammunition is an ammunition and reloading supplies manufacturing company that has developed a reputation for very accurate, very standardized ammunition in a varied multitude of calibers. Black Hills has grown very popular among Cowboy Action Shooters (see SASS) due to the fact that they produce quality ammunition in a number of almost completely unavailable and otherwise obsolete calibers, such as .
Black Hills Central Railroad The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist railroad operating on the former BN (nee CB&Q) Keystone Branch between Hill City and Keystone, South Dakota. It was originally built as a mining railroad for Black Hills Gold.
Black Hills Ordnance Depot The Black Hills Ordnance Depot (BHOD) was a munitions storage and maintenance facility formerly operated by the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army. The depot was located in Fall River County, in far southwestern South Dakota about eight miles south of the town of Edgemont.
Black Hills Posse The Black Hills Posse was a professional basketball club based in Rapid City, South Dakota that competed in the International Basketball Association beginning in the 1995-1996 season. The team was founded by George Daniel, an attorney from Pennsylvania.
Black Hills Run The Black Hills Run is a route from Deadwood, South Dakota to Custer State Park, South Dakota, across the Black Hills, favored by motorcycle riders. It reached the height of its popularity between 1939 and 1941.
Black History for Action In politics and history the Black History for Action (BHA), founded in 1986, became a long-standing and highly regarded independent lecture and discussion forum for the British African-Caribbean community in London.
Black Hole (2006 film) Black Hole is a Sci Fi original movie, directed by Tibor Takács, that asks the question: What if a particle accelerator went awry and created a black hole? The film explores this possibility as a black hole begins to form taking much of St.
Black Hole (comics) Black Hole is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Charles Burns. It was originally published as a 12-issue comic book series between 1995 and 2005 by Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics, and then released in a compiled hardcover edition by Pantheon Books in 2005.
Black Hole (solitaire) Black Hole is a solitaire card game that is akin to Golf and Tri Peaks, but its tableau is somewhat like that of La Belle Lucie. Invented by David Parlett, this game's objective is to compress the entire deck into one foundation.
Black Hole of Calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon where troops of the Nawab of Bengal held British prisoners of war after the capture of Fort William on June 20, 1756. The prisoners were held overnight in conditions so cramped that a large proportion of those held died from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing.
Black Hole Sun "Black Hole Sun" is a song by 1990s grunge band Soundgarden. It originally appeared on their 1994 album Superunknown and was the second single released from it (the previous one being "Spoonman").
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays is a popular science book by Professor Stephen Hawking. It is a collection of both introductory and technical lectures on the topic "Black Holes Thermodyanmics" but also includes descriptions on Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
Black Holes and Time Warps Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (1994) is a popular science book by Kip Thorne. It provides a good illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory up until the early 1990s.
Black Homeland Citizenship Act The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970 was a denaturalization law passed during the apartheid era of South Africa that changed the status of the inhabitants of the bantustans (black homelands) so that they were no longer citizens of South Africa. The aim was to ensure that white South Africans came to make up the majority of the de jure population.
Black Horse Cavalry The Black Horse Cavalry was a bipartisan group of corruptionists in the New York state legislature which during the last quarter of the 19th century preyed particularly on corporations. It usually blackmailed by introducing bills against the corporations which would be killed if sufficient money were forthcoming.
Black Horse Pike Regional School District The Black Horse Pike Regional School District (BHPRSD) is a regional public high school district serving students in grades 9 through 12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey. The three communities are Bellmawr Borough, Gloucester Township and Runnemede Borough.
Black Hundred The Black Hundred, also known as the black-hundredists (Чёрная сотня, черносотенцы in Russian, or Chyornaya sotnya, chernosotentsy) was a reactionary movement in Russia in the early 20th century, a supporter of the tsarist regime, which stood for inviolable autocracy in its struggle against the revolutionary movement.
Black church The term black church refers to Christian churches that minister to the African American community. In many cases these arose because the mainstream churches were geared toward white cultural sensibilities or practiced racial segregation.
Black Chamber The Black Chamber, otherwise known as MI-8, was America's first peacetime cryptanalytic organization and a forerunner of the top-secret National Security Agency. The only prior codes and cypher organizations maintained by the US government had been some intermittent, and always abandoned, attempts by Armed Forces branches prior to WWI.
Black Chasm Cave Black Chasm Cave, near Volcano, California, was assigned National Natural Landmark status by the National Park Service in 1976. It was recommended for this protection by members of the National Speleological Society who had made explorations of its numerous chambers in the 1960s.
Black Cherry The Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) is a species of cherry, native to eastern North America from southern Quebec and Ontario south to Texas and central Florida. It is a species in the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes, and is a deciduous tree growing to 15-30 m tall.
Black Cherry X Black Cherry X was a comic character created in 1985 by Edward Duffy while he was still working for 2000 AD. The limited series was a success but was discontinued after a dispute between Edward Duffy and the artist Sophie Sweenie.
Black Chronicle The Black Chronicle is the largest African American newspaper in the state of Oklahoma. Based in Oklahoma City's Eastside, it is owned by the Perry Broadcasting Group and cators to Oklahoma City's large Black community.
Black is beautiful A movement in the united states during the 1970s to dispel the notion that black people's natural features, skin color, and hair were inherently "ugly." The movement asked that men and women stop straightening their hair and attempting to lighten or bleach their skin to "look more white.
Black Ice (band) Black Ice (Oakland, California) is a No Wave/Deathrock was formed in 1999 by members of The Phantom Limbs, Stevenson Sedjwick and Skot Brown. Additionally, Sedjwick has played in Factory Of Angst, Bloody Melinda and other bands; while Brown has been a member of Anal Kitties, Oliver Klossoff And The Applicators, and Holy Revolver Society.
Black Ingvars Black Ingvars, Swedish humorist heavy metal band. Black Ingvars is famous for cover version of songs from other musical styles, like pop, children's song, "dansband" music, Christmas songs and gospel.
Black Isle Studios Black Isle Studios was a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment, created specifically for the development of computer role-playing games. It was based in Orange County, California, USA.
Black Isle's Torn Black Isle's Torn is a computer role-playing game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios, announced on March 22, 2001 and cancelled in July of that year. Torn was to use a modified version of the SPECIAL role-playing system, which had been implemented in the Fallout series.
Black Ivory Black Ivory is the name of an R'n'B group from Harlem, which had a number of hits in the 1970's, including "Don't Turn Around," "You And I", "I'll Find A Way (The Loneliest Man In Town)", "Spinning Around", "What Goes Around (Comes Around)" and "Will We Ever Come Together" and "Mainline". The group featured songwriter and prolific disco producer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe and Russell Patterson.
Black Jack (stamp) Black Jack or Blackjack. The 2-Cent denomination United States postage stamp issued from July 1, 1863 to 1870, is generally referred to as the "Black Jack" due to the large portraiture of the United States President, Andrew Jackson on its face printed in pitch black.
Black Jack (strain) Blackjack is a strain of marijuana that was developed in England. The strain is currently being extensively inbred to create a stable variety that produces consistent, uniform growth and quality from each seed.
Black Jack Mulligan (United Kingdom) Black Jack Mulligan was a contemporary of such British wrestlers as Big Daddy, Jim Breaks, Headbanger Walsh, Giant Haystacks and many others on the UK scene. A Geordie from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England, his real name was Lawrence Coulson, born around 1940 to a working class Tyne side family.
Black January Black January (Azeri: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre was a crackdown of Azeri protest demonstrations by the Soviet army in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on January 20, 1990. In Azerbaijan Black January is seen as the birth of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Black Kettle Chief Black Kettle (born 1801 - 1807, died November 27, 1868) was a Cheyenne leader who unsuccesfuly attempted to resist white settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories. He survived the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 but died in the 1868 Battle of Washita River.
Black Knight (Arthurian legend) The Black Knight is the name of a variety of characters, as comes with naming anyone a knight of a common color. First and foremost he is mentioned as a knight who tied his wife to a tree after hearing she had exchanged rings with Perceval.
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) Dane Whitman is a fictional comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, the company's third person to bear the name Black Knight. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema, he first appeared in The Avengers Vol.
Black Knight (Marvel Comics) The Black Knight is the name of several fictional characters, both heroic and villainous, in Marvel Comics' universe. All of these characters have a shared lineage, and all wear similar costumes and use a medieval motif.
Black Knight (racquet manufacturer) Black Knight is a Canadian sport racquet manufacturer. It produces and sells badminton, squash, tennis and racquetball racquets and all the related accessories such as squash balls, badminton shuttlecocks, nets, strings, clothes and bags.
Black layer A black layer is a coat on the filament of the indirectly heated cathode in a cathode ray tube, intended to optimise the output of electrons from the cathode, thus minimising the energy consumption and heat generated while maximising the picture intensity.
Black leaf Black Leaf is a physiological disease that affects some grape varieties such as Concord. It is essentially a potassium deficiency that causes the leaves on a vine to turn purple and eventually black as chlorophyll is lost.
Black letter law The black letter law refers to the basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute. It may, for example, be the standard elements for a contract or the technical definition of battery.
Black light Black light (also Wood's light) is the common name for a lamp emitting electromagnetic radiation that is almost exclusively in the soft near ultraviolet range, and very little visible light. In the United Kingdom this type of lighting is more commonly referred to as simply "UV light".
Black liquor Black liquor is a recycled byproduct formed during the Kraft process, the sulfate method of chemical pulping of wood in the papermaking industry. In this process, lignin is separated from cellulose, with the latter forming the paper fibers.
Black lizardfish The black lizardfish or deep-water greeneye, Bathysauropsis gracilis, is a grinner of the genus Bathysauropsis, found around the world in the southern oceans, at depths of between 1,500 and 3,000 m. Its length is from 20 to 30 cm.
Black locust Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, but has been widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe and Asia and is considered an invasive species in some areas.
Black Label Bike Club Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers. Started in 1992 by Jacob Houle and Per Hanson as Hard Times Bike Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the club has grown to include chapters in New York; Reno, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Stockholm, Sweden; and a nomad chapter loosely based out of New Orleans known as Nowhere.
Black Lace (band) Black Lace were a British pop group from Ossett in Yorkshire; they are noted for their deliberately light weight hits such as "The Music Man", "Agadoo" and "Superman". They also represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 in Jerusalem, with the song "Mary Ann", which finished seventh.
Black Lace (books) Black Lace is an imprint of Virgin Books that specializes in erotica and erotic romance written by female authors specifically for female readers; the imprint does not publish novels written by men partly as a marketing scheme, partly to better appeal to their target demographic. The books explore women's sexuality as well as such themes as BDSM, group sex and bisexuality.
Black Ladino Black Ladinos were Spanish-speaking black African slaves born in Latin America, or exiled to the Americas after spending time in Castile or Portugal. They were often referred to as negros ladinos ("cultivated" or "latinized Blacks"), as opposed to negros bozales (i.
Black Lady Black Lady is an extremely combative variant of the card game Whist, similar to the popular game Hearts. It is commonly played among large groups of players (typically 8 to 10) using two decks of cards, or it can be played by as few as three players using a single deck.
Black Lady of Bradley Woods The Black Lady of Bradley Woods is a ghostly figure of a woman supposed to haunt the woods near the village of Bradley, Lincolnshire, UK. She is described by alleged eyewitnesses as being a young and pretty woman around 5"6 inches tall, dressed in a flowing black cloak and a black hood that obscures her hair but reveals her mournful, pale, tear soaked face.
Black Lake (Louisiana) There are up to thirteen bodies of water named Black Lake in Louisiana. Notable among them is the one along the Black Lake Bayou, which forms part of the boundary between Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana and Red River Parish, Louisiana.
Black Lake (New York) Black Lake is a lake in the northern part of New York in the United States and is the largest lake in Saint Lawrence County. The lake is south of the Saint Lawrence River and parallels the river for many miles.
Black Lance The Black Lance is a fictional elite force in Wing Commander IV video game. It was created secretly by Admiral Tolwyn to fight not only the Union of Border Worlds, but any 'human' forces which were deemed unfit to help either shape or succeed in ushering humanity to a higher plain of power within the universe.
Black Lark The Black Lark, Melanocorypha yeltoniensis, breeds in southeast Russia and Kazakhstan. It is partially migratory, with birds from the northwest of its breeding range moving south-east to winter further into Russia and neighbouring countries, as far as the northern Black Sea coasts in southern Ukraine.
Black Laundry Black Laundry (Heb: Kvisa Shchora) is an Israeli group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and others (collectively, LGBTQ) who utilize direct action to oppose the occupation of Palestine and to support other "social justice" causes. According to their website, "Black Laundry tries to stress the connection between different forms of oppression - our own oppression as lesbians, gays and transpeople enhances our solidarity with members of other oppressed groups.
Black Leather (song) Black Leather is a hard rock/punk rock song about sadomasochism written by Steve Jones and Paul Cook for their post-Sex Pistols band The Professionals. It was later covered by the all-female band The Runaways on their 1978 album, And Now...
Black Legend The Black Legend (Spanish: La Leyenda Negra) is the depiction of Spain and Spaniards as bloodthirsty and cruel, intolerant, greedy and fanatical. The term was coined by Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The Black Legend and Historical Truth).
Black Leopards The Black Leopards are a football (soccer) club, playing in South Africa's Premier Soccer League. The club, which was founded in 1983 by business people in Venda, plays its home matches in Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province.
Black Liberation Army The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist organization that operated in the United States from 1971 to 1981. Comprised largely of former Black Panthers (BPP), the organization's program was one of "armed struggle" and its stated goal was to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States.

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