How to Use Black Power in a Sentence

Black Power

noun
Definition of Black Powernext
  • There would be no Black Power balled fist thrown at the TV cameras.
    — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The history of black power and the movement that bore its name can be traced back to the summer of 1966.
    — Jamil Smith, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Newton paused after the score – the 50th rushing TD of his career – and raised his left fist in a salute to black power.
    — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 1 Oct. 2017
  • When, in the late 1960s, the counter-culture began to bloom – black power, gay lib, women’s lib – drag followed suit.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The most popular movie in the world is about black power and our schools are still segregated.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
  • At he 1968 Olympics two American sprinters raised their fists for black power at the height of the civil rights movement.
    — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The hoodie featured Greek-lettering on the front and a crest on the back, complete with symbols of black power like a black panther and a fist.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 20 Apr. 2018
  • By its final lines, thousands of fists are raised in the air in a solidarity salute to black power.
    — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Cone blended the racial pride of the black power movement with an emphasis on social justice that had been a part of the black church since enslaved Africans first read the Bible.
    — John Blake, CNN, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Then, during the black power movement of the ’60s and ’70s, natural hair became a front-and-center statement.
    — Collier Meyerson, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • Yet the end of the war did not bring peace but only a return to the jittery status quo of plots, uprisings, and white anxieties about black power.
    — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The ideas of socialism and black power are discussed with a sense of urgency that hadn’t been seen since the days of Public Enemy.
    — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Carmichael’s black power position is clear when his followers refuse to let a white Harlem resident join the march.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • His victory complete, T’Challa closes the film with an assertion of black power—and black permanence—on the world stage.
    — Jason Herbert, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Stapp’s portrait and the peacock chair itself have since become an enduring symbol of Black Power.
    — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • On Sunday Bennett responded after a sack with a black power salute instead of his usual sack dance.
    — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Now that scholars have worked to rehabilitate the Black Power movement, Rustin’s critique of it has been muffled.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Things like Black Power, the civil rights movement, feminism, the antiwar movement, the struggle over what defines the United States — all of those things are still with us today.
    — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Each package contained what appeared to be a homemade explosive device in a small glass bottle with an unknown black power with a fuse, the complaint says.
    — Time, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The lesson of Alabama is that those who wish to harness the energy of the black electorate would do well to empower the levers of black power that are already operating on their own.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The beggar was preaching black power – but was actually white, Lawson joked.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But the moral crises remain the same: Ray Carney keeps his straight gig running a furniture store while keeping a hand in the underworld as Black Power politics reshape the neighborhood.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • But in its celebration of black power in the face of white dominance, black self-determination and the black body, the film also set the template for the blaxploitation genre, which would generate a new breed of hero.
    — Dante A. Ciampaglia, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Charlie Billingsley, artist and founder of the Museum for Black Girls — another partner for the festival, said every piece connects to what’s going on in the world, from slogans and quotes to symbols like records, afros and the black power fist.
    — Catherine Henderson, The Know, 19 June 2020
  • That honor goes to Beyoncé’s couple’s costume with Jay Z, and their tribute to famous black athletes — and one famous black power moment.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Her Coachella salute to black colleges and Greek life included an outfit that featured a purple-and-silver crest with images of Queen Nefertiti, a black bee, a black power fist, and a black panther.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • While standing on the podium during the medal ceremony, both men raised their fists in a black power salute that famously sparked outrage and ostracized them from the Olympics community.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Moore mentored a number of Black Power activists, including Malcolm X.
    — Keisha N. Blain, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Beyoncé appeared on stage decked out in apparel with black power emblems.
    — NBC News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The audience will witness the rise of black power from a new perspective as African American activists, musicians from Stax, and local sports stars are transformed from vocal protesters to savvy politicians.
    — Brendan Doherty, Forbes, 29 June 2022

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