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Poems: The Little Black Boy
by WilliamBlakeThe LambThe BlossomThe Little Black Boy My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child,…George Sterling: The Black Vulture
The Black VultureGeorge SterlingAloof upon the day's immeasured dome, He holds unshared the silence of the sky. Far down his bleak, relentless eyes descry The eagle's empire and the…Charles Black, Jr. Biography
Charles Black, Jr.Born: 9/22/1915Birthplace: Austin, Texas constitutional law expert and professor who helped to write the legal brief for 10-year-old Linda Brown, the plaintiff in the…Joe Black 2002 Deaths
Joe BlackAge: 78 Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, who won rookie of the year honors and became the first black pitcher to win a World Series game in 1952; helped Brooklyn win National League pennant…Conrad Black, 2004 News
founder and former CEO of Hollinger International, a media conglomerate that owns the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and other holdings, was accused by its board of stealing more…Brewer's: Black Hole of Calcutta
A dark cell in a prison into which Suraja Dowlah thrust 146 British prisoners. Next morning only twenty-three were found alive (1756). The punishment cell or lock-up in barracks. Source…Brewer's: Black Letter Day
An unlucky day; one to be recalled with regret. The Romans marked their unlucky days with a piece of black charcoal, and their lucky ones with white chalk. Black-letter dogs. Literary…Brewer's: Black Rood of Scotland
The “piece of the true cross” or rood, set in an ebony crucifix, which Margaret, the wife of King Malcolm, left at death to the Scottish nation. It passed into various hands, but was lost…Brewer's: Black-thorn Winter
(The ). The cold weather which frequently occurs when the black-thorn is in blossom. (See Borrowed Days.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black…Brewer's: Procession of the Black Breeches
This is the heading of a chapter in vol. ii. of Carlyle's French Revolution. The chapter contains a description of the mob procession, headed by Santerre carrying a pair of black satin…Trending
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