negro
Black in Madrid
Negro is a now-obsolete term for a Black person, once standard in American English through the mid-20th century.
The Negro spiritual tradition, Negro leagues.
The word fell from use as Black Americans asserted control over their own naming, and today it sounds archaic at best, offensive at worst.
It persists in historical contexts and some organization names established before the shift: the United Negro College Fund.
Dense dark tropical wood
- onyxLayered black-white gemstone
- jetForced fluid stream
- sableBlack, in heraldry
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
obsidian · raven · ink · charcoal · midnight · pitch · soot · tar
Of that southern continent
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- AfrocentricEmphasizing African cultural viewpoint
- pan-AfricanismMovement for African unity
Nubian · ancestry · identity · community · pride · solidarity · roots
Ownership of people
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
civil rights · reconstruction · antebellum · NAACP · Harlem Renaissance · Frederick Douglass · Booker T. Washington · W.E.B. Du Bois
Pungent Capsicum pod
Sacred choral tradition
- hymnReligious song of praise
- freedom songsMusic voicing collective liberation
- jubileeSpecial anniversary observance
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
call and response · choir · deliverance · Jordan · Moses
ebony
Dense dark tropical wood
coal · obsidian · raven · ink · charcoal · midnight · pitch · soot · tar · panther
African
Of that southern continent
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- AfrocentricEmphasizing African cultural viewpoint
pan-Africanism · Nubian · ancestry · identity · community · pride · solidarity · roots
slavery
Ownership of people
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
segregation · civil rights · reconstruction · antebellum · NAACP · Harlem Renaissance · Frederick Douglass · Booker T. Washington · W.E.B. Du Bois · Langston Hughes
chile
Pungent Capsicum pod
cascabel · guajillo · mole · dried · smoky · mild · wrinkled · Oaxacan
gospel
Sacred choral tradition
- hymnReligious song of praise
- freedom songsMusic voicing collective liberation
- jubileeSpecial anniversary observance
plantation · call and response · choir · deliverance · Jordan · Moses
- coloresazul, naranja, rosa, celeste, dorado
- oscuridadsombra, penumbra, noche, eclipse
- chili peppersjalapeno, chili pepper, habanero, serrano, cayenne
- Spanish Wordsagua, adios, amigo, bueno, casa
- Afro-LatinosAfro-Brazilian, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Peruvian, Afro-Brazilians
- Negro leaguesSegregated-era pro baseball circuit
- Negro spiritualsEnslaved African Americans' sacred music