In the real-life incidents upon which this film is based, it was the Mafia, not the Black Hand, who functioned as the villain.

Black Mafia Family leaders in 2004

" Gang Activity in the U. S. Armed Forces Increasing ", dated January 12, 2007, states that street gangs including the Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13 ), Mexican Mafia, Norteños, Sureños, and Vice Lords have been documented on military installations both domestic and international although recruiting gang members violates military regulations.

The strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations, were hallmarks of U. S. gangster rings, Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Chinese Tongs / Triads and the Japanese Yakuza / Black Dragon Society.

The group has an alliance with La Eme ( The Mexican Mafia ) as the two are mutual enemies of Black Guerilla Family.

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The Honored Society was slightly more complicated than the Black Hand of America, which was often confused with the American Mafia.

The Black Hand, much like the pre-1920s Mafia, was a highly disorganized version of the real European Mafia.

Major criminal gangs that were founded in Detroit and dominated the drug trade at various times included The Errol Flynns ( east side ), Nasty Flynns ( later the NF Bangers ) and Black Killers and the drug consortiums of the 1980s such as Young Boys Inc., Pony Down, Best Friends, Black Mafia Family and the Chambers Brothers.

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* Black Hand ( extortion ), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States

Former Three 6 Mafia members include Gangsta Boo, Koopsta Knicca, Lord Infamous, and Crunchy Black.

* Crunchy Black ( 1994-2006 )-Ex-Three 6 Mafia member, Left because he claimed Hypnotize minds didn't care about him.

* Three 6 Mafia ( DJ Paul, Juicy J, Lord Infamous, Koopsta Knicca, Gangsta Boo & Crunchy Black )

Notable appearances include: Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Throbbing Gristle, Paul McCartney, Prince, Radiohead, Dr. Dre, Oasis, Daft Punk, Roger Waters, Madonna, The Cure, Florence and the Machine, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, The Black Keys, Rage Against The Machine, At the Drive-In, Beck, Gorillaz, Björk, Nine Inch Nails, The Strokes, The Chemical Brothers, Pavement, MGMT, The White Stripes, Jay-Z, Tool, The Prodigy, Beastie Boys, Swedish House Mafia, Kaskade, Afrojack, Alesso, David Guetta, Avicii, Odd Future, Porter Robinson and Calvin Harris, and Bon Iver.

Cooper also frequently collaborates with former Three 6 Mafia associate Lord Infamous on the Black Rain Entertainment label.

* Black Mafia

* Discordian texts and scriptures include Principia Discordia, Black Iron Prison, Zen Without Zen Masters, Liber Malorum, Book 5 ( The Zenarchist's Cookbook ), Zenarchy Unapologia, The Book of the Apocalypso, The Book of Eris, The Book of Inconveniences, The Honest Book of Truth ( portions of which are used in Principia Discordia ), Jonesboria Discordia, Metaclysmia Discordia, Novus Ordo Discordia, Principia Harmonia, Aeturnus Ille Discordia, The Wise Book of Baloney, The Book of Life, The Book of Chaos and Its Virtue, Chao Te Ching, Summa Discordia, Voices of Chaos, The Book of Chaos, Apocrypha Discordia, Principia Entropius, etc.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

Several other films dealing with inner city issues and Black Britons were released in the 2000s such as Bullet Boy ( 2004 ), Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) and Rollin ' With the Nines ( 2009 ).

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

This was revealed in the " Life of Orlando "- section in The Black Dossier.

* Civil Rights: Beyond Black & White-slideshow by Life magazine

Symphony in Black ( 1935 ) featured his extended piece ' A Rhapsody of Negro Life '.

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, " Honky Tonk Women " by The Rolling Stones, " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes " by George Jones, " Daisy Jane " by America, " Life Is a Highway " by Tom Cochrane, " Black Velvet " by Alannah Myles, " Cities " by Talking Heads, " Crazed Country Rebel " by Hank Williams III, " Pride ( In the Name of Love )" by U2, " M. E. M. P. H. I. S.

( Hugo Black, dissenting, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson ( 303 U. S. 77, 1938 ).

* Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf by Barry Singer, Foreword by Bobby Short, ISBN 0-02-872395-3

* Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince.

Rapoport's autobiography Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life ( Black Rose Books, 2000 ) gives some of the history of the General Semantics movement as he saw it.

Michael Azerrad, author of Our Band Could Be Your Life, calls Black Flag the " godfathers " of hardcore punk.

The Impressions's " We're a Winner ", written by their lead singer Curtis Mayfield, became a virtual anthem of the black power and black pride movements, as did James Brown's " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ", Collin Carlone's " Life As a ' Boro Black Boy ", and, unwittingly, Martha & the Vandellas ' " Dancing in the Street ".

Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt.

The Black Cloud contained the Female spirit of Life.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

De La Torre, " Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White ," in Aesthetics within Black Religion: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed., Cambridge University Press, pages: 113-134.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.

Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

Black sign language was born out of this isolation.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.