Popular examples of these types of films include Back to the Future, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Evolution, Innerspace, Galaxy Quest, Mars Attacks !, and Men in Black.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

You seek to control a predetermined number of Groups ( such as the Boy Scouts, the Men in Black, the CIA, etc.

* Other dramatisations: 10, 000 Black Men Named George ( 2002 ); Matewan ( 1987 ); American Playhouse —" The Killing Floor " ( 1985 ); Salt of the Earth ( 1954 ); The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ); Black Fury ( 1935 )

Men in Black ( MIB ), in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

According to the accounts of those encountering them, Men in Black always seem to have detailed information on the persons they contact, as if the individuals had been under surveillance for a significant period of time.

Although the phenomenon was initially and most frequently reported in the 1950s and 1960s, some researchers – John Keel and others – have suggested similarities between Men in Black reports and earlier demonic accounts.

Similarly, folklorist Peter Rojcewicz noted that many Men in Black accounts parallel tales of people encountering the devil: Neither Men in Black nor the devil are quite human, and witnesses often discover this fact midway through an encounter.

More prosaically, Clark cites Bill Moore, who asserts that " the Men in Black are really government agents in disguise ... members of a rather bizarre unit of Air Force Intelligence known currently as the Air Force Special Activities Center ( AFSAC ) ... As of 1991, the AFSAC, headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia ," and " under the operational authority of Air Force Intelligence Command centered at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

" ( Clark, 321 – 22 ) Curiously, Moore also reports that AFSAC was inspired by the tales of Men in Black from the 1950s, and had nothing to do with those early accounts.

Similarly, Clark notes that Dr. Michael D. Swords has speculated that the Barker / Bender Men in Black case ( occurring shortly after the CIA-directed Robertson Panel issued its recommendations to spy on civilian UFO groups ) might have been a psychological warfare experiment.

Men in Black ( 1997 ), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as Agent K and Agent J, was based on Lowell Cunningham's comic book about a secret organization that monitors and suppresses alien activity on Earth – The Men in Black from Aircel Comics.

The film was followed by Men in Black: The Series and its 2002 sequel Men in Black II.

Men in Black 3 was released on May 25, 2012.

Will Smith made a song called " Men in Black ", for the movie Men in Black in 1997, and " Black Suits Comin ' ( Nod Ya Head )" for its sequel in 2002.

For example, in his book Black Men Built the Capitol, Jesse Holland notes his use of Northup's narrative.

Notable musicians who spent parts of their childhood in Twin Falls include Gary Puckett, Paul Durham of Black Lab, Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill.

Lineup: N. E. R. D, The Temper Trap, Arrested Development, Chromeo, Xavier Rudd, Gyroscope, Midnight Juggernauts, Mystery Jets, Little Red, Trentemoller, Operator Please, Light Speed Champion, Miami Horror, Built to Spill, Shout out louds, Aeroplane, Tinie Tempah, Future of the Left, Born Ruffians, Liam Finn, Basement Birds, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Gypsy and the Cat, Jebediah, Tumbleweed, Urthboy, Oh Mercy, Violent Soho, The John Steel Singers, Glenn Richards, Koolism, Space Invadas, Wagons, Yuksek, Dam Funk, M-Phazes, Horrorshow, Lowrider, The Holidays, Illy, Ernest Ellis, Baskery, The Red Eyes, Split Syndicate, Hungry Kids of Hungry, Neon Indian, Stonefield, Kimbra, Cabins, Papa VS Pretty, Jericco, Bang Gang DJ's, Red Coats, Black and White, Ajax, Gloves.

All songs written by Built to Spill except " Broken Chairs ," which includes lyrics by the poet Uhuru Black

During that tour, they played with At the Drive-In, Pearl Jam, The Black Halos and Built to Spill.

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

Major watersheds: Black River, Budd / Deschutes, Chehalis River, Eld Inlet, Henderson Inlet, Nisqually River, Skookumchuck River, Totten Inlet and West Capitol Forest.

During the early 1940s Walker moved to Los Angeles, where he recorded many enduring sides for Capitol, Black & White, and Imperial.

Zonophone has now become the home to The Cramps ' Illegal recordings in the UK alongside David Axelrod produced albums by David McCallum, the cult sitar classic Lord Sitar, Cilla Black and compilations of Capitol era material from such as Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry.

Stevens ' coffin lay in state inside the Capitol Rotunda, flanked by a Black Honor Guard ( the Butler Zouaves from the District of Columbia ).

In the same year, the band released a double-album, The Black Album / Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols, comprising The Black Album – an album recorded before ... The Dandy Warhols Come Down that was rejected by Capitol Records and dismissed by the band themselves – and Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols, a collection of B-sides, covers and unreleased songs.

* 1962 Black and Blue ( Capitol )

* That Old Black Magic / And You Are My Love ( 1958 ) single 45-CL 14948 ( Capitol ) UK

* 1956: Black Satin — Capitol ( T858 )

File: JFKcapitolNov25 ' 63. jpg | The caparisoned, riderless horse named " Black Jack " during a departure ceremony held at the United States Capitol Building in conjunction with the state funeral of John F. Kennedy, 1963.

Winegarten twice won the Liz Carpenter Award, for her books Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph, and Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators 1923-1999.

The following year, the band were transferred sideways across EMI, from Capitol to Parlophone, who released two new recordings " Love Child " and " Blacker Than Black " ( the latter being released across Europe and in North America ) as taster singles.

Soon after this initial bit of success, Black Sheep signed with Capitol Records, releasing two albums in succession Sheep ( 1974 ) and Encouraging Words ( 1975 ).

* Octavius Augustus Williams – U. S. Capitol Barber and first Black to move into LeDroit Park in 1893 ( 338 U Street )

* 1972: " Black Mother Goose " ( Capitol )

The lineup for Black Sheep's self-titled Capitol Records album in 1975 included Gramm ( then known by his full name, Louis Grammatico ) ( vocals ), Donald Mancuso ( guitar ), Larry Crozier ( keyboard ), Bruce Turgon ( bass ), and Ron Rocco ( drums ); and should not be confused with the hip-hop group of the same name.

** Video in Black and White, recorded at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey October 13, 1978

* Discovering Birds, A & C Black, 1993 ISBN 0-903138-53-0

The Intersection of African-American English and Black ASL slides.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

It includes people who indicate their race as " Black, African Am., or Negro ," or who provide written entries such as African-American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.

According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has " leveled off " as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans.

The new terms are thus devalued, and another set of words must be coined, giving rise to lengthy progressions such as Negro, Colored, Black, Afro-American, African-American, and so on, ( cf.

Assata Olugbala Shakur ( born July 16, 1947, as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard ) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) and Black Liberation Army ( BLA ).

Organizations such as the Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity became popular among the city's African-American youth.

The Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame celebrates the city's long history of African-American music and the Strathdon Caledonia Pipe Band carries on a Scottish legacy.

Freed slaves and their descendants created a thriving African-American business community, and the city's historic Jackson Ward became known as the " Wall Street of Black America.

Part of what became the Black Belt of Georgia, prior to the American Civil War the county's chief commodity crop was cotton, cultivated and processed by African-American slaves.

* Miss Black America, a beauty pageant for African-American women

Concerned about the loss of jazz venues in the African-American community, Juneteenth leaders established " June Is Black Music Month!

Fonda and Hayden unofficially adopted an African-American teenager, Mary Luana Williams ( known as Lulu ), who was the daughter of members of the Black Panthers.

Included in their number are Milt Campbell, the 1956 Olympic Decathlon gold medalist ( the first African-American to earn this title ); and Joe Black, the first African-American pitcher to win a World Series game.

Also known as the Black Metropolis District, the area is a landmark in African-American history.

The plot features an African-American woman who goes North in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor Black children.

Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.

The festivities were kicked off with the African-American Historical Association celebrating Black History Month in February.

The racial makeup of the county was 97. 59 % White, 0. 80 % Black or African-American, 0. 15 % Native American, 0. 52 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 33 % from other races, and 0. 58 % from two or more races.

* 25. 11 % Black or African-American

The races there are very mixed: 157, 965 are White, 26, 405 are Black or African-American, 525 are American Indian and Alaska native, 1, 814 are Asian, 50 are native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 5, 719 are Hispanic or Latino, 1, 958 are some other race and 1, 648 are two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 79. 75 % White-or Caucasian American, 15. 30 % Black or African-American, 0. 20 % Native American, 2. 57 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 1. 00 % from other races, and 1. 16 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 97. 80 % White, 0. 12 % Black or African-American, 0. 86 % Native American, 0. 24 % Asian, 0. 37 % from other races, and 0. 61 % from two or more races.