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

For people such as former Secretary of Education William Bennett, Obama's election meant that an era of racial whining sanctioned by the excesses of the civil rights and black nationalist movements had ended. —Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014

In the 1970s, for example, Rhodesia’s intelligence agency introduced cholera into wells in areas held by black nationalist guerillas. —Kate Charlet, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018

With encouragement from the Economic Freedom Fighters, a black nationalist party in South Africa inciting anti-white violence, the perpetrators would torture, rape, and disembowel their victims. —Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025

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

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for black nationalist

• internationalist
• rationalist