The phrase "a blackness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is very dark or black in color. For example, "The sky was filled with a blackness, and I knew a storm was coming."
And then there's Dr. Don Shirley himself, the ever inconsistent Oreo the derogatory term for a blackness that teeters towards whiteness who comes off like a black-to-white "message" translator for the black experience.
And then there's Dr. Don Shirley himself, the ever inconsistent Oreo the derogatory term for a blackness that teeters toward whiteness who comes off like a black-to-white "message" translator for the black experience.
A blackness not told solely through the lens of black trailblazers who exhibited excellence in white spaces, but also through a developed cultural vocabulary that hues towards an articulation of black genius built upon the successes of history.
But the skinny youth who grew up under the thumb of her mother and the Gospel — who gained an "Auntie Ree" in her mother's former boss, Aretha Franklin; who negotiated the narcotic thrills of Newark and the aspirational black middle-class splendor of East Orange — was made the ambassador of a blackness that felt artificial to many.
We've also seen a plethora of articles that sound the alarm of suspicion about the white gaze on this chocolate beauty, and the suspicion of an acceptance for a blackness that has long navigated the territory of rejection within white and black society.
He wanted to sleep, enter a lovely blackness, a dark, but not too dark, resting place, unhaunted, unpeopled, with no flickering presences.
He called Mr. Mubarak's tenure "30 years of intense darkness — black, black, black, the blackness of a chilly winter night".
The desert slowly emerged out of a velvet blackness, became a watery blue, almost the blue of a swimming pool.
"He has a tremendous blackness and a real empathy with human suffering," says his friend the writer James Fox, who travelled with him to Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Chad, Vietnam and London's East End.
2. Questions a black woman's blackness 3. Says nigga repeatly.
