How to Use black nationalist in a Sentence

black nationalist

noun
  • There were no radicals or young people, and there was no spokesman for the black nationalist movement.
    Steven M. Gillon, Time, 2018-03-01
  • Ohio has nine black nationalist hate groups and Kentucky another five.
    Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 2018-02-21
  • The center said most of the growth was concentrated in neo-Nazi, anti-Muslim and black nationalist groups.
    Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 2018-03-16
  • The center cautioned that black nationalist groups should not be confused with black activist groups such as Black Lives Matter.
    Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 2018-02-27
  • The senior Garvey, who died in 1940, was a black nationalist who sought to unify people of African descent worldwide.
    David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 2020-12-09
  • New America counted five murders by far-right extremists in 2017, nine by Islamic extremists, and three by black nationalists.
    Kennett Werner, NBC News, 2018-01-18
  • Plainspoken and potentially explosive –that’s Saar, a second-wave feminist and pioneer of postwar black nationalist aesthetics.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2018-05-18
  • In response to the violence towards and killing of black people, the Black Panthers, a black nationalist group, start to explore the Second Amendment as a means to help keep aggressive police officers in check.
    Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 2019-05-01
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors hate groups and extremism, included the church in a 2017 list of black nationalist hate groups.
    Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 2018-04-26
  • The members of the Little family were pioneer black nationalists who endeavored to follow Garvey’s dictum of establishing black political power across urban and rural American landscapes.
    New York Times, 2020-04-06

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