How to Use anti-Black in a Sentence

anti-Black

adjective
  • In Rankine’s case, the deceased are victims of anti-Black lynchings.
    — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Chokr made antisemitic and anti-Black remarks during the incident, police said and a video shows.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • As crises have accumulated in the decade since, the hoodie’s tight connection to anti-Black violence seems to have loosened.
    — Dawn Chan, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Multiple teens on e-bikes insulted a student with anti-Black racial slurs and spitting, and one of the suspects injured the back leg of the victim with the tire of an e-bike, campus police said.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In the brief, Baruch wrote Broadnax’s trial was riddled with racial stereotypes and anti-Black rhetoric, including using his lyrics to paint him as a danger to the public.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Some were uninterested in monetary compensation as a form of justice, acknowledging that anti-Black violence would not be addressed with finances alone.
    — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • These anti-Black attitudes allow politicians to scapegoat Haitians for problems within Dominican society.
    — Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The turn away from deep French manicures also had classist and anti-Black undertones—long acrylic nails and intricate designs had a stigma of being unprofessional when worn on women of color.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Despite the tremendous fear of living in a world where Black people are dealing with impoverishment, some of the characters develop an inexorable will to fight anti-Black oppression.
    — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
  • The document devotes sections to anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic, anti-trans and misogynistic rants.
    — Anna Schecter, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • This anti-Muslim trope follows a tradition of anti-Irish, anti-Italian, anti-Jewish and, of course, anti-Black sentiment.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In the wake of the 2020 protests of anti-Black police violence, museums put themselves forward as hosts for their communities’ racial reckonings and difficult discourses.
    — Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026
  • Black folks have been used as scapegoats for the rising government budgets, and anti-Black stereotypes fueled voters to significantly reduce access to affordable healthcare and educational assistance.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Radicals such as Sumner also warned, presciently, that the Fifteenth Amendment did not go far enough, and that its flaws would ultimately allow anti-Black reactionaries to undermine its purpose.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • One need not reach for Hegel’s infamous formulations to recognize that anti-Black sentiment did not arrive in Germany as an import but, rather, runs deep within German intellectual and cultural history.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Standards are not automatically anti-Black Not every expectation set within a Black institution is respectability politics.
    — Tee Wilson, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The filmmakers make an intentional decision to avoid actually sharing footage of Black deaths and anti-Black police violence on screen to avoid straying into morbid spectacle, which is a commendable ethical choice most non-Black filmmakers might not have made.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The vigilante tradition in American culture In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, vigilantism was closely associated with anti-immigrant and anti-Black violence, most notoriously through lynching.
    — Daniel Lachance, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Second, mainstream perspectives disconnect Black liberation struggles from Pan-African and Pan-American efforts to hold the beneficiaries of anti-Black oppression accountable for their unearned gains, regardless of national boundaries.
    — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

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