Beyoncé, arguably the greatest professional entertainer of our time, chooses to love her blackness.
Isaiah's dissertation, "The Afterwards of Blackness: Race, Time, and Contemporary Performance," analyzes the aesthetic strategies and practices that contemporary black cultural producers deploy to critique concepts of normative or "modern" temporality.
At the time, the colours represented: Out of the blackness (black) of servitude through bloody (red) battles to the golden (gold) light of freedom.
What of "To Pimp" and recent albums by D'Angelo and Kanye West that brood over twenty-first-century blackness at a time when Macklemore and Iggy Azalea sit comfortably in the musical mainstream?
A short time later, in the blackness of space, an orbiting satellite ejected a small film capsule that tumbled earthward protected by a heat shield.
Melville wrote a review of Mosses from an Old Manse, published by Duyckinck, and in it he believed that these stories revealed a dark side to Hawthorne, "shrouded in blackness, ten times black".
Because of an editing error, The Books of the Times review on Friday, about "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness" by Kevin Young, misstated the surname of a singer-songwriter at one point.
Has your time in space given you any insight?" It's such a strange and wonderful place, the inky blackness of the sky.
For $19,000 you get to see the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth from the cockpit of a MiG-25 Foxbat hurtling at 2.5 times the speed of sound.
The blackness of darkness still hangeth over it.
Mr. Horton found solace in the blackness of the tunnels.
