black nationalist

noun

variants or Black Nationalist

plural black nationalists or Black Nationalists

: a member of a Black advocacy group in the U.S. especially during the 1960's and 1970's that sought to empower Black people financially, promote a sense of Black community and identity, and form a separate self-governing Black nation

—often used before another noun

black nationalist groups

a Black Nationalist leader

black nationalism noun

or Black Nationalism

Examples of black nationalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Four of the five men pardoned committed non-violent offenses, and the other (and the most well-known) was black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who has now been posthumously pardoned for mail fraud. —Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Jan. 2025

Whether expressed in right-wing, left-wing, jihadist, or black nationalist ideological terms, today’s acts of political violence share a common lineage in the above mixture and together have resulted in almost 200 deaths since the 9/11 attacks. —Peter Bergen, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2018

Crook Manifesto has no granular reveries to soul food delicacies or ritual encounters with bookish black nationalists of the Elder Michaux variety. —Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023

The group was named after Grandassaland, a term that black nationalist Carlos A. Cooks, one of Mr. Brathwaite’s political idols, used to refer to the African continent, and included women whom Mr. Brathwaite and his brother spotted on the street. —Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above