How to Use non-Black in a Sentence

non-Black

adjective
  • The depleted competition in the old leagues led even non-Black Bear teams to follow suit.
    — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • The complaint alleges the captain did not enforce the policy against non-Black officers.
    — Ben Wheeler april 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Counterintuitively, the study found that non-Black patients did not have lower odds of receiving a transplant over the course of the study.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 10 Mar. 2026
  • After getting a hold of the beauty shot, one non-Black character randomly transforms into a Black man.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The non-Black voters who successfully challenged the map have separately asked the court to speed up when its ruling goes into effect.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In 2022, non-Black students made up 24% of the student population at HBCUs.
    — Andrea Hagan, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
  • And the Black Caucus’ continued openness to endorsements and spending on behalf of non-Black candidates is intensifying what was already a scramble for a shrinking map.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
  • Additionally, Black women are more likely to die from breast and uterine cancers than non-Black women — and Black men have the highest cancer rates of any American demographic.
    — Marcos Magaña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • By comparison, 15% of non-Black students made up HBCU populations in 1976.
    — Andrea Hagan, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But when the state then attempted to comply by creating a second majority-Black district, a group of non-Black voters challenged the new map as an allegedly unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Many non-Black Americans are still becoming familiar with Juneteenth, though the holiday has been celebrated in many Black communities since 1866.
    — Jennifer Rosen Heinz, Parents, 17 June 2026
  • But critics have called out the erasure of the Black origins of African American Language and point out how non-Black Gen Zers are using it without even realizing its cultural significance.
    — Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The way to talk about Morrison as a poet and in touch with poets, the way that Gwendolyn Brooks constructed Chicago in her poems was different than the way that non-Black Chicago poets were constructing Chicago.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • The filmmakers make an intentional decision to avoid actually sharing footage of Black deaths and anti-Black police violence on screen to avoid straying into morbid spectacle, which is a commendable ethical choice most non-Black filmmakers might not have made.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Research from groups like the Intercultural Development Research Association and Arizona State University found that Black students are more likely to report being teased or discriminated against for their natural hair, compared to their non-Black classmates.
    — Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026

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