Black Power

English Alternative forms en black power Etymology From Richard Wright (author) 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. Noun - Black Power A slogan and movement for self-determination for Black peoples. en Red Power en June 8, 1970 Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's New York Magazine http://www.anamnesis.info/sites/default/files/Tom%20Wolfe-Radical%20Chic%20%26%20Mau-Mauing%20the%20Flak%20Catchers.pdf w:Tom Wolfe Meanwhile, Black Power groups such as SNCC and the Black Panthers were voicing support for the Arabs against Israel. This sometimes looked like a mere matter of black nationalism; after all, Egypt was a part of Africa, and black nationalist literature sometimes seemed to identify the Arabs as blacks fighting the white Israelis. https://web.archive.org/web/20260208193558/http://www.anamnesis.info/sites/default/files/Tom%20Wolfe-Radical%20Chic%20%26%20Mau-Mauing%20the%20Flak%20Catchers.pdf 8 February 2026 A slogan or movement of separatism for Black communities in predominantly non-Black countries. en 1975 Water No Get Enemy w:Fela Kuti Expensive Shit I dey talk of Black power, I say (Water, him no get enemy!) en w:Peniel E. Joseph Black Power's Quiet Side The New York Times 2006-06-19 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/opinion/black-powers-quiet-side.html 0362-4331 “Black Power” quickly became the controversial slogan for a movement that was largely perceived as rejecting the civil rights movement's nonviolent tactics and goals of integration in favor of a new ethos of black identity, self-defense and separatism. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512094330/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/opinion/black-powers-quiet-side.html 12 May 2022 A slogan used to support Black supremacy. See also en Black Panthers en civil rights en Black liberation en white power Further reading en Ethnicity Social justice Swedish sv: Etymology sv en Black Power. Noun sv noun Black Power en Black Power sv svart makt less common