How to Use Black Power in a Sentence

Black Power

noun
  • The moment was seen as a gesture of solidarity with the Black Power movement.
    — Jemele Hill, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Because of this, guns would ultimately become a key component of the Black Power movement.
    — Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • More than 30 years later, John Carlos and Tommie Smith threw up the Black Power fists seen all over the world.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The first big push for Black people to embrace their natural texture took place during the 1970s as part of the Black Power movement.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 14 May 2026
  • Standing for the first time free of coffles on his feet, a man holds his broken chain aloft in a gesture that predates the Black Power fist that would become popular a century after this sculpture was hewn from rock.
    — Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power political aesthetic had forced its way from the streets and into households, with good reason.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Critics interpreted the shirt’s design—a white hand in a posture reminiscent of a Nazi salute raised above a Black Power fist—as symbolizing racial dominance.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • These ventures can be heroic, as when Tommie Smith and John Carlos valiantly raised their fists as a Black Power salute in Mexico City in 1968.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • By the mid-1960s, the school, located in the center of Harlem, was among the few schools in the United States to publish a yearbook directly engaged with the civil rights and Black Power discourses of the era.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Watani Stiner is a memoirist and former Black Power activist whose writing explores revolution, exile, captivity, and reconciliation with family and history.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Women’s roles in the Black Power Movement, a new novel from Atlanta’s own Tayari Jones, a magic library where book characters come to life, and an essential book on the growing challenges to voters are all on Atlanta’s literary agenda for February.
    — Gina Webb, AJC.com, 1 Feb. 2026
  • True North, Stephenson’s film about the Black Power Movement in Montreal in the late 1960s, just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In honor of Black August, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is hosting a special pop-up conversation as part of its Black Power exhibition, spotlighting the enduring legacy of Black resistance and self-determination in the Bay Area.
    — Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Nominated films include Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989, written and directed by Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975).
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025

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