blackness

Example Sentences

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Through this exploration, BJ finds out he can thrive in Korea while still holding onto his Blackness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

RaMell proposed to set about reorganizing and juxtaposing symbols of Blackness and Black life in the hope of creating a visceral interaction between the viewer and the lives unfurling onscreen.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

And now I’m going to go listen to Sounds of Blackness.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

She would later change the name, but at first she called it Raceteenth or Curious Observations by a Non-American Black on the Subject of Blackness in America.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie