Black Budget
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Black budget A black budget is a budget that is secretly collected from the overall income of a nation, a corporation, a society of any form, a national…
Black Cow or Brown Cow (root beer float)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Ice cream soda (variations)Root beer floatAlso known as a "brown cow" "black cow", the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla…
Black Diamond (black truffle nickname)
Truffles -- especially black truffles such as Périgord truffles -- have been dubbed "black diamonds." French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) supposedly called black…
Black Friday (Big Friday)
"Black Friday" is the name of the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving, but there were other Black Fridays. The financial term "Black Friday" was popularized in the United…
Black Friday (false etymology about slavery)
"Black Friday" (or "Big Friday") is the name for the day after Thanksgiving -- a busy shopping day. The term was popularized by the police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in…
Black Friday Slaughter Sale
Entry in progress -- BP Wikipedia: Black Friday (1869)The Black Friday gold panic of September 24, 1869 was caused by a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk, and…
Black Girl Magic Row (Tompkins Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant)
Entry in progress -- BP Wikipedia: Bedford–Stuyvesant, BrooklynBedford–Stuyvesant (/ˈbɛdfərdˈstaɪvəsənt/), colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of…
Black Knight
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: White knight (business)In business, a white knight, or "friendly investor" may be a corporation, or a person that intends to help another firm. There…
Black Monday (head coach firing day after NFL regular season)
"Black Monday" has been the name for various events -- usually bad -- that occur on a Monday. The National Football League's regular season ends with Sunday games; the head coaches…
Black Monday; Black Tuesday; Black Thursday; Black Friday (Wall Street stock declines)
Entry in progress -- B.P. THe Free DictionaryBlack FridayA day of stock market catastrophe. Originally, September 24th, 1869 was termed Black Friday. The crash was sparked by gold speculators…
Black National Anthem (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”)
Wikipedia: life Every Voice and Sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson…
Black Russian (cocktail)
The "Black Russian" cocktail contains vodka and coffee liqueur (such as Kahlua or Tia Maria). The cocktail is cited in print from October 25, 1956, when this was printed in the San…
Black Tin Pan Alley or Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Gaiety Building)
Entry in progress -- BP Wikipedia: Gaiety Theatre (New York City)The Gaiety Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 1547 Broadway in New York City from 1909 until 1982, when it was torn down. The office…
Black Wall Street
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: The Black Wall StreetThe Black Wall Street can refer to: . Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma . Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia . Parrish Street, in Durham, North…
Black Zone (area without electrical power)
Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in the evening of October 29, 2012. The Con Ed power company experienced many problems and power went out over lower Manhattan for several days. Manhattan below…
Black-and-White (cookie)
The famous black-and-white "cookie" is actually a "cake." The black-and-white was re-popularized on the television show Seinfeld in the 1990s. Unfortunately, I haven't…
Black-Robed Gang (court judges)
The court dress of judges in the United States usually consists of black robes. The term "black-robed gang" refers to a court -- usually the United States Supreme Court -- and is a thinly…
Blackbirds (Long Island University teams)
It is not known when or why Long Island University called its sports teams the "Blackbirds," but the nickname had been used since at least 1935. In 2019, the "Blackbirds"…
Blackout Cake
The "Blackout Cake" is the famed product of Brooklyn's Ebinger's Bakery, which began in 1898 and closed its doors in 1972. It's not clear when this was called…
Blameocracy (blame + democracy); Blameocrat (blame + bureaucrat)
A "blameocracy" (blame + democracy) is when one political party blames another political party for seemingly all of the country's problems, or when a president blames the previous…