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In a nondescript black building in downtown L.A.’s Arts District, rich sounds of sax and bass filled the air for hours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The walls were painted black and balanced by light hardwood floors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Vigil organisers had asked people to wear black if possible, and to bring flowers.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

During this time, Joey receives stacks of letters, including one from Father Julien, who remembers the woman in black who tried to rescue his diary years ago.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

In the penultimate frame of the match, O'Sullivan looked on course for a maximum 147 break, potting nine reds and eight blacks, before opting to go for a blue in a break of 113.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

Polling has long shown that large majorities of blacks support vouchers and other school-choice policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Under the law, blacks and whites could choose to eat in the same restaurants and get tickets to shows in the same theaters.

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

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

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

From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2022

The press corps that landed in Ferguson after a black 18-year-old, Michael Brown Jr., was fatally shot by a white police officer, was blacker than most big American newsrooms.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2020

The hair on her arms rose as she watched the flame of her candle bend forward, pointing to a darkness that seemed blacker than all the rest.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Being on the “state sponsor of terrorism” list is the blackest of designations for any country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

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

“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

“And in the blackest times ever ready with a joke...Father’s courage was an inspiration never to be forgotten by any of us.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

In another video, the same woman debriefs the experience: “I just blacked out and spent nearly 600 euros at the French pharmacies. So, let’s go through everything I got.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

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

I tried to try to make a wisecrack about him mistaking me for a football, but blacked out before I could say it.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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

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

Mr Choudhury said it was a miracle he survived his fall in 2021 after he asked two walkers to take his photograph before suddenly blacking out and plunging down the ravine.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

The on-again-and-off-again clouds got to be always on and they ended up blacking out the moon two nights later.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis