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Black and unrest
With the CMSN's leader reluctant to break with France and Mauritania, the country refused to give in to Polisario demands for a troop retreat, and Ould Salek's careless handling of the ethnic issue ( massively discriminating against Black Africans in nominating for government posts ) contributed to further unrest.
* March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U. S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of " America is the Black man's battleground!
So while Styron was researching and composing his next novel, narrated from the perspective of a militant slave, he was living in a time that coincided with the Black Power movement, political struggle, civil unrest, and racial tension.
In the event the miners struck without the support of other unions (“ Black Friday ”), and the sharp slump took the sting out of labour unrest.
As the city of Oakland became more ethnically and politically diverse in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tribune was unable to respond quickly enough to the demographic changes ( and the political and social unrest exemplified, among other factors, by the University of California, Berkeley, student uprisings and the Black Panther movement ).
However, the Black Death, the Protestant Reformation and political unrest in 16th-century Europe led to its decline.
After Kublai's departure, unrest broke out among the Black jang.
During the demonstrations and student strikes associated with the New Haven Black Panther trials and other civil unrest in 1970, numbers of the twelve thousand protesters at times found refuge inside the Elihu building.
* Brooklyn Babylon, a feature film starring Tariq " Black Thought " Trotter and The Roots, presents a fictionalized version of Crown Heights neighborhood unrest in the 1990s.
The labour unrest of the 1960s and the Black Power movement of the early 1970s created other blocks of opposition to the PNM, but the DLP leadership was not able to attract these groups to their orbit.
Black Lace and Seebach recorded " Hey Hey Jock McRay " for the Danish singles market, but an intended 1980 tour of Poland was called off because of political unrest in the country.
Black Baltimore was quiet on April 5, despite rioting in nearby Washington, D. C .. One white student at UMBC reported a quiet scene, with noticeable sadness, but little violence or unrest: April 5, " in many cases, was just another day ".

Black and British
Berger donated half of his £ 5, 000 prize to the British Black Panther movement, because they had a socialist and revolutionary perspective in agreement with his own.
As a result a large numbers of Lamassu's, bas-reliefs, stelae, including the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III were brought to the British Museum.
In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.
" Black and Tan " or " Tan " remains a pejorative term for the British in Ireland, and they are still despised by many in Ireland.
Sierra Leone was largely colonized by Calvinist settlers from Nova Scotia, who were largely Black Loyalists, blacks who had fought for the British during the American War of Independence.
" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.
The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.
Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in many areas of British life.
Some argue it has brought more flexible attitudes towards casting Black and Asian British actors, with Robbie Gee and Naomie Harris take leading roles in Underworld and 28 Days Later respectively.
Soon afterwards the British added a long cloth which was used to tie chemical-soaked mouth pads into place, and which was called the Black Veil Respirator.
Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.
During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of the Bay Islands and took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area.
Secondly they deployed paramilitary forces, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division, and more British Army personnel into the country.
* 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
* 1813 – War of 1812: three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
Ninja Tune is a British independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke.
* 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being the " son of Omri " while the Bible describes him to be " the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi ".
This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.

Black and pressure
The flooding of the area now known as the Black Sea ( when a land bridge, where the Bosporus is now, collapsed under the pressure of rising water in the Mediterranean Sea ) submerged a great deal of human activity that had been gathered round what had been an enormous, fresh-water lake.
Demographic factors also contributed to upward pressure on prices, with the revival ( from around the third quarter of the 15th century ) of European population growth after the century of depopulation and demographic stagnation that had followed the Black Death.
In the mid-1980s, Hughes recorded several different albums with bands and artists including Phenomena ( Phenomena, Phenomena II: Dream Runner ), Gary Moore ( Run For Cover ), and Black Sabbath ( Seventh Star, though this was to have been a solo album by Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, and only came out as a Sabbath album due to record label pressure ).
Japanese diplomatic communications at negotiations for the Washington Naval Treaty were broken by the American Black Chamber in 1922, and when this became publicly known, there was considerable pressure to improve their security.
As a result of pressure from militants, writes Morris, a Fatah congress in Damascus in August – September 1971 agreed to establish Black September.
There is similar pressure on Black Bermudians ( most of whom are multi-racial ) not to self-identify as mixed race as there is in Blacks in the USA, where President Barack Obama, raised by his single, white mother, sparked debate when he identified himself on the census as black, rather than mixed race, and in the UK, in both of which countries greater flexibility is also now allowed for people to describe themselves racially.
Under pressure from political radicals in the Mouvement pour l ' évolution sociale de l ' Afrique noire ( Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa or MESAN ) and in an attempt to cultivate alternative sources of support and display his ability to make foreign policy without the help of the French government, Dacko established diplomatic relations with Mao Zedong's People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in September 1964.
The term latent heat was introduced into calorimetry around 1750 by Joseph Black when studying system changes, such as of volume and pressure, when the thermodynamic system was held at constant temperature in a thermal bath.
This so-called degeneracy pressure stabilizes a neutron star ( a Fermi gas of neutrons ) or a white dwarf star ( a Fermi gas of electrons ) against the inward pull of gravity, which would ostensibly collapse the star into a Black Hole.
Black Mask reached a sales peak in the early 1930s, but then interest began to wane under increasing pressure from radio, the cinema,
Equally, evolution may be employed as a mechanism for generating a dynamic world of adaptive individuals, in which the selection pressure is imposed by the program, and the viewer plays no role in selection, as in the Black Shoals project.
Black Grouse and Red Grouse are now extinct on Exmoor, probably as a result of a reduction in habitat management, and for the former species, an increase in visitor pressure.
If White tries 30. Nd6 with the idea of 31. Qxe5 winning the knight, Black gets decisive pressure on the g-file after 30 ... Nf3 + 31. Kh1 Qg6.
Atkins originated an important defensive strategy in the Queen's Gambit Declined: an early ... Ne4 by Black in order to exchange off a pair of minor pieces and ease the pressure on Black's position.
If White does not oblige, then Black will play ... Bb6 with pressure on the d-pawn.
Black usually continues 6 ... c5, putting more pressure on White's centre.
Black puts pressure on d4 and leaves open the option of playing ... d5, or ... d6 and ... e5.
Black must create immediate pressure on White's centre by playing ... c5, and ... Ne4 may be a handy move at some point to block the b1-h7 diagonal and perhaps exchange some pieces.
If White defends the pawn, then Black gets an easy game by keeping the pressure on d4, so White almost always plays 5. dxc5.
Black has dissolved White's centre, but the bishop on g2 exerts pressure on the black queenside, which White may augment with 9. Qb3.
After 4 ... Bxc3 + 5. bxc3, Black has several possibilities, the most common of which is that he immediately begins to blockade the doubled pawns with 5 .... c5 and applies more pressure on the ( often doomed ) pawn at c4 with the moves ... Ba6, ... Nc6-a5 and ... Rc8.
Lynne joined, enthused by Wood's ELO idea, as Wood realized that he needed a second composer in the band to relieve the pressure on himself, and the band toured the UK with Arden's other major client, Black Sabbath.
It was generally thought that an early Nf3 was weak in the Exchange Variation because it allowed Black too much pressure on the centre with ... Bg4.
By the end of the war Liu had only around 2, 000 troops under his command and was in no position to resist pressure from Tang Ching-sung and the other commanders of the Yunnan Army to remove the Black Flag Army.

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