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There is one final bit of irony: Cornell’s longtime unofficial mascot is Touchdown the Big Red Bear, a tradition dating to 1915, when the football team once adopted a live black bear.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

One resident wore a T-shirt that read, "Voting is my black job."

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

I repaired Steve’s bicycle knickers for a coming tour but sent a little black dress—perfect for someone else—off to Goodwill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

There was a rustle and a flash of black.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Nollie’s blue sweater beneath Betsie’s dress was black with newsprint.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“Jefferson on Race” collects an array of his writings about blacks and Native Americans, ranging from state papers to plantation records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

After yesterday's first session, O'Sullivan led 7-2, and stretched that advantage with a break of 62 before potting nine reds and eight blacks at the start of the 10th frame.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

Last month a subset of the same team, using artificial intelligence to analyze the original data, generated a sharper image that showed a thinner doughnut of doom surrounding an even blacker center.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

“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

This jacket was two other colors — black and blacker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

“It’s big, and it’s blacker than coal,” Jewitt said.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022

She slithered for hundreds of feet in the unimaginable dark, an almost tangible darkness, blacker than night, blacker than closets with closed doors, blacker than closed eyes under bedsheets.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

“Soon I’ll go for a stroll / in my blue silk dress, / go into town / and buy myself a plum, / the blackest from the bush,” one of her speakers proclaims.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

When Dad turned the headlights off everything disappeared into the blackest night anyone had ever seen.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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

Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell in one undated photo; reclining in the hot tub next to the person whose face has been blacked out.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

She wore oversized sunglasses that blacked out her eyes and a fair portion of her cheekbones.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 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

“I think the reason that you redact records like this, records that are just silly to redact in the first place, it’s about normalizing the blacking out of records,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

A 1961 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. found that, prior to blacking out, swimmers recalled believing they could go forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

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