Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”).
It contained an article written by Lacy Banko summarizing the work of Dr. Herbert Hendin, who had done a comparative study on suicide among Black people in the major American cities. Dr. Hendin found that the suicide rate among Black men between the ages of nineteen and thirty-five had doubled in the past ten to fifteen years, surpassing the rate for whites in the same age range.
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
To make black; to blacken.
"I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully. "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
A surname transferred from the nickname.
A number of places in the United States:
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl...
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A black dye or pigment.
Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”).
By 2016, however, a divide that started appearing in the preceding few years came into full relief—that year, 29% of nonwhite liberals (28% of nonwhite Democrats) and 38% of Black liberals (34% of Black Democrats), disagreed that “Blacks should work their way up without special favors.”
To apply blacking to (something).
[…] he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).