black power

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Black Power.

alternative black power

1. uncountableA slogan and movement for self-determination for Black peoples.

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   Meanwhile, Black Power groups such as SNCC and the Black Panthers were voicing support for the Arabs against Israel. This sometimes looked like a mere matter of black nationalism; after all, Egypt was a part of Africa, and black nationalist literature sometimes seemed to identify the Arabs as blacks fighting the white Israelis.

   1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine

2. uncountableA slogan or movement of separatism for Black communities in predominantly non-Black countries.

   I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)

   1975, Fela Kuti, “Water No Get Enemy”, in Expensive Shit

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   “Black Power” quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism.

   2006 June 19, Peniel E. Joseph, “Black Power's Quiet Side”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. uncountableA slogan used to support Black supremacy.