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Having sworn never to be taken back to slavery alive—or to let that happen to anyone else—he had organized an armed self-defense force of black neighbors to fend off slave catchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

There’s a photo of me in the fifth grade with black lipstick and fishnets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But he has since remained an elusive public figure -- often seen in a sharp black suit and sunglasses, while largely communicating through social media.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Dressed in black as always, she was nevertheless suddenly young and girlish, eyes sparkling with joy at this greatest occasion the ten Booms had ever held.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

So after he does his performance, he puts back on his blacks and he does his job, and I love that for him, to have that sense of responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

What 250 years means: To me, it means that we’re still here, we’re living, we’re breathing… The blacks and browns, you know, us sticking together, I feel like we accomplished a lot in 250 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The yawning gap between the policy preferences of elites and those of rank-and-file blacks remains today, but it was just as obvious three decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

An Emerson College survey last year put overall support for the tax-credit program at 64%, including 61% of Democrats, 68% of Hispanics and 63% of blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

In Chicago, under the law, most places were open to both blacks and whites: children attended school together, and adults rode streetcars together.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The former journalist, who was documenting the wreckage during his descent, described the darkness of the Atlantic ocean as "blacker than you could ever imagine" with temperatures dropping to 2C.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023

No motion picture has presented a bleaker, blacker etching of the horror of war than “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

“Liberation Day” is different only in that the humor is a little blacker, the fears of our exploitation more intense.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

But now with more inclusive views of beauty, we celebrate Blackness of all shades including the classic Tupac homage “the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2022

The ground lies stark in the pale light, and then the darkness shuts down again blacker than ever.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Comparisons with other major tropical rivers show that the Ruki may even be the blackest large blackwater river on Earth -- it's certainly a lot darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

Semple created the “pinkest pink” paint in 2016 as a reaction to artist Anish Kapoor purchasing and reserving the artistic rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the world’s blackest black.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

When winds were bearable, we sought bliss, sat, admired the aurora australis as an escape from our blackest abyss.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023

He held up a somewhat furry morsel of blackest licorice.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Infantino arrived at Fifa's offices in Rabat, Morocco on Wednesday in now-familiar fashion, chauffeured to the building in a motorcade, sitting in the back of a Mercedes with blacked out windows.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

This president’s name is no mystery to readers, but perhaps out of legal caution it always appears blacked out, as though the novel were a redacted intelligence document.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

I sent the screenshots—with our information blacked out, of course—but by my calculations, we’ve been friends for four whole days.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

She also said she has a history of blacking out and that doctors have been unable to determine why.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Over the weekend she said she continued bleeding and suffering a lot of pain, even blacking out on her way to the bathroom at night.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

In a twist on condo conversions, some people even remodeled the upper floors of their homes — blacking out windows and drilling ventilation holes — to make them habitable for swiftlets.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

"I was blacking out and fainting," Ms Davies, a tattoo artist, said.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

“You’d best take a swab at your shoes with a blacking brush,” she said.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck