black power

noun

Etymology

From Richard Wright's book Black Power (1954), describing his travels to the Gold Coast and the rise of Pan-Africanism. In a US context later popularized by Stokely Carmichael.

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Black Power.

  2. A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism,…

    A slogan and movement supporting Black self-determination and sometimes separatism, especially in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.

    • I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!)

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