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Yet Southern politicians had insisted there could be no Union-saving Compromise of 1850 without the law, which forced every citizen of the North to cooperate in returning black people to bondage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

She first took off the hood to reveal her hair and headband, then removed the gown to play in a black tank top and metallic tennis skirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

A blond woman wearing a navy pantsuit, a zipped black leather case held to her chest, is standing there.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

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

The union used its newspaper, the New Majority, to foster goodwill between the Irish and blacks, where friction was the greatest.

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

“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

‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

When she read the dry brown words, her black mood grew blacker still.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It is almost certainly the blackest black possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

The place he meant to come to and any day now the blackest man in the world would be there too.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

I shut down, blacked out for a second.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

Yet in recent months, the utility has heard a chorus of complaints from communities including Moorpark and Malibu that it is blacking out customers even when the winds are calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

“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

Before blacking out from pain, Stockdale heard the drone of American planes above.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin