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Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of lawyer Atticus Finch as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Typically, the sweltering season will prompt the Swedish singer-songwriter to do something new, like dye her hair black or switch up her personal style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Some of the stellar material falls toward the black hole, while much of it can be violently expelled into space through powerful outflows.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

This class, which is significantly less rigorous than AP Computer Science, does seem to enroll more girls and more black and Hispanic students and is more like a social science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Ahead, pulled off onto the snow at the side of the road, we saw it, a long black limousine with official government plates and curtained rear windows.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Lindy Hop, the grandfather of all swing, emerged in 1920s New York during the Harlem Renaissance—an explosion of black artistic creativity following the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

At the time, one Nigerian man told BBC Pidgin: "It is not okay because we are blacks, we are brothers... everybody comes here just to survive."

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

There was also increased concern that, without greater equality for African Americans, blacks would become susceptible to communist influence, given Russia’s commitment to both racial and economic equality.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

It is a wonderful moment, a comic ray of light that makes the darkness of Dr. Lecter’s heart and mind all the blacker.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

There was no hint of another color in his coat; it was blacker than moonless midnight.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Semple, who went to war with fellow artist Anish Kapoor over the latter’s exclusive rights to the world’s blackest of blacks, made his first red when he was 17.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 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

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 was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

Standing on third base with the Birmingham crowd roaring, Ruiz said, “Honestly, I didn’t know what was going on. I blacked out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

The sky blacked by the smoke from flaming vehicles was visible from Saunders's suite in a luxury hotel along Puerto Vallarta's main strip.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

Just before Jason blacked out, the comet intercepted the ball of fire above them.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

"On Saturday I was blacking in and out, I didn't know what to do," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

Those moderators have publicly protested earlier Reddit decisions, most recently blacking out much of the site for days when Reddit announced plans to start charging many third-party apps for access to its content.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

He said it was the closest he had come to blacking out onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

And then his right hand begins to burn, the pain sharp and searing, beginning at the scar around his finger and racing up his arm, blacking out every thought in his mind.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern