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Black Is Black

Black is black, I want my baby back, It's gray, it's gray, Since she went away, Ooh-Ooh, What can I do'Cause I-I-I-I-I'm feelin' blue."- Tony Hayes and Steve Wadey

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  • June 2008

    • Only Black Is Beautiful in Italian Vogue

      New York Times  |  Jun 19, 08 9:03 AM CDT

      Only Black Is Beautiful in Italian Vogue

      (Newser) - Black women spend $20 billion a year on clothes, but the fashion world still harbors a racial prejudice that keeps women of color out of the big glossies. Now noted photographer Steven Meisel has teamed with Italian Vogue to produce a special issue, in which all the models are black and all the articles address black women in the arts. The New York Times reports on the issue's genesis. More »

  • March 2008

    • Are Black Immigrants Black?

      Mother Jones  |  Mar 1, 08 7:31 PM CST

      Are Black Immigrants Black?

      (Newser) - The notion that a black American must be a “descendant of West African slaves brought here to labor for whites against their will” just reinforces the “invisibility that black immigrants face in America,” Debra Dickerson writes in Mother Jones . But she can’t escape it herself, she admits; she has said that Barack Obama isn’t black, endorsing “a politico-cultural reality which I reject.” More »

  • February 2008

    • NASA Tests Beatles' Star Power

      Houston Chronicle  |  Feb 1, 08 2:19 PM CST

      NASA Tests Beatles' Star Power

      (Newser) - NASA will send the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space Monday, the Houston Chronicle reports. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of both the space agency and the band, NASA’s Deep Space Network will transmit the song toward the North Star, Polaris—which the signal should reach in about 431 years. More »

  • January 2008

    • Really Black Is the New Black

      Reuters  |  Jan 16, 08 9:29 AM CST

      Really Black Is the New Black

      (Newser) - What's the blackest thing you can think of? If you said a carpet of carbon nanotubes, you probably work with a Rice University team of scientists whose current project is "pushing the limit of how much light can be absorbed into one material." Their new material could lead to big advances in energy production and defense, Reuters reports. More »

  • October 2007

    • Black Hole Smashes Record

      Space.com  |  Oct 31, 07 6:38 AM CDT

      Black Hole Smashes Record

      (Newser) - A newly discovered stellar-mass black hole shatters the weight record for holes formed from dying stars—and defies explanation by current theories. Faced with its mysterious heft,  astrophysicists can only conclude that stellar-mass black holes "can be much larger than we had realized," Space.com reports. More »

  • June 2007

    • Sopranos Leaves Fans in Dark

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jun 11, 07 6:31 AM CDT

      Sopranos Leaves Fans in Dark

      (Newser) - After carefully building the suspense as Tony and his family gathered at a diner for what might have been a last supper, the creators of the Sopranos ended the eight year saga into the dark side of the American family psyche without any resolution. More »

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

adj. 1. of the very darkest color; the opposite of white; colored like coal, due to the absence of or complete absorption of light: black smoke. ? (of the sky or night) completely dark due to nonvisibility of the sun, moon, or stars, normally because of dense cloud cover: the sky was moonless and...

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