Whereas before, their enrapturing blackness was primarily concerned with sporting references, now they're swathed in the imagery of social unrest, riots, and uprisings.
I was introduced to the N-word long before I had any real understanding of its association with blackness and black culture.
KORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan — The helicopters landed in blackness before the moon rose.
But six people, some of whom apparently collapsed in the stairwell's blackness before they could reach the open door, died.
A dangerous myth has developed that ethnic minorities rallied around the banner of "political blackness" before the state money from multiculturalism caused bitter divisions.
When Port, the luckless hero of The Sheltering Sky, wanders around Tangier at night, he his met "head on" by "a wind that was dry and warm, coming up the street out of the blackness before him".
And yet, even if, in the end, it was all done for the sake of hard-won compassion, even if the final notes of the book were of triumphant love and grief at the loss of him, in the weeks and months leading up to its publication a sickening feeling sometimes took hold of me and dumped its blackness before moving on.
By the end of the novel, we see that all of its younger protagonists are in search of a transformation that, like Cressida's Escher imitation, will carry them through some profound blackness before returning them, absolved of some unspecified guilt, to their original places in the world.
Jenner has been criticized for appropriating blackness before.
What's most fascinating about the reaction to "Formation" is that it assumes Beyoncé has never before put her blackness on display in this way. .
