black power
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A slogan or movement of separatism for Black communities in predominantly non-Black countries.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)"
- "“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."
Etymology
From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.