How to Use black nationalist in a Sentence

black nationalist

noun
  • There were no radicals or young people, and there was no spokesman for the black nationalist movement.
    Steven M. Gillon, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The center said most of the growth was concentrated in neo-Nazi, anti-Muslim and black nationalist groups.
    Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The center cautioned that black nationalist groups should not be confused with black activist groups such as Black Lives Matter.
    Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Ohio has nine black nationalist hate groups and Kentucky another five.
    Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors hate groups and extremism, included the church in a 2017 list of black nationalist hate groups.
    Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In response to the violence towards and killing of black people, the Black Panthers, a black nationalist group, start to explore the Second Amendment as a means to help keep aggressive police officers in check.
    Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 1 May 2019
  • Nation of Islam organizations in Lexington and Louisville are among the five black nationalist groups counted in Kentucky.
    Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • New America counted five murders by far-right extremists in 2017, nine by Islamic extremists, and three by black nationalists.
    Kennett Werner, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The leader of a black nationalist church that’s been labeled a hate group lived a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars, designer clothing and private school for some of his children, according to federal prosecutors.
    Crystal Hill, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The members of the Little family were pioneer black nationalists who endeavored to follow Garvey’s dictum of establishing black political power across urban and rural American landscapes.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Plainspoken and potentially explosive –that’s Saar, a second-wave feminist and pioneer of postwar black nationalist aesthetics.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018

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