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She added that the school had scrapped branded PE tops but was selling plain, black PE shirts in its uniform shop after requests from parents.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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

He’s wearing his same navy bandana and still has his black hair in neat braids.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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 straightforward intent of Title VII was to outlaw racial discrimination in the labor force, where blacks were being kept out of jobs and denied promotions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

Some blacks with education and skills, like Ida Wells-Barnett, had managed to get away to cities like New York or Philadelphia or Chicago.

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

“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

Designed for use in high-end screens, micro-LEDs promise blacker blacks, brighter blues.

From BBC ● May 28, 2020

The animal was blacker than the fiercest of rain clouds.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

His people have shimmering skins rendered in the blackest of tones; in some cases they camouflage themselves into shadow and night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

The tallest, blackest, shiniest boots I had ever seen, endless columns.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

“But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was thinking, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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

A third undated snap shows the former US president reclining in a hot tub beside someone whose face is blacked out to protect their identity.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Billy blacked out as he walked through gate after gate.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

Mr Rogers, 20, passed away after blacking out during a swim training session at Armagh's Orchard Leisure Centre in April 2017.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

One may apply blacking as one will—for it is not in the application, but in the buffing, that the art of blacking lies.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson