Editing Black (section)

===Idioms and expressions===
[[File:Hebridean ram.jpg|thumb|Namesake of the idiom "black sheep"]]
* In general, the [[Negro]] [[race (human categorization)|race]] of African origin is called "Black", while the [[Caucasian race]] of European origin is called "[[White]]".
* In the United States, "[[Black Friday (shopping)|Black Friday]]" (the day after [[Thanksgiving Day]], the fourth Thursday in November) is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. Many Americans are on holiday because of Thanksgiving, and many retailers open earlier and close later than normal, and offer special prices. The day's name originated in [[Philadelphia]] sometime before 1961, and originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive downtown pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on that day.<ref name="Zimmer">Ben Zimmer, [http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3047/ The Origins of "Black Friday,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129104751/http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3047/ |date=29 January 2012 }} ''Word Routes'' (25 November 2011).</ref><ref name="linguistlist239">[http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804D&L=ADS-L&P=R5955&I=-3 Martin L. Apfelbaum, Philadelphia's "Black Friday,"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013171732/http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804D&L=ADS-L&P=R5955&I=-3 |date=13 October 2008 }} ''American Philatelist'', vol. 69, no. 4, p. 239 (January 1966).</ref> Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point in the year that retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black", because of the large volume of sales on that day.<ref name="Zimmer"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/11/black-friday|title=Black Friday|author=Kevin Drum|date=26 November 2010|access-date=23 November 2012|archive-date=30 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130010418/http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/11/black-friday|url-status=live}}</ref>
* "In the black" means profitable. Accountants originally used black ink in ledgers to indicate profit, and red ink to indicate a loss.
* [[List of Black Fridays|Black Friday]] also refers to any particularly disastrous day on financial markets. The first [[Black Friday (1869)]], 24 September 1869, was caused by the efforts of two speculators, [[Jay Gould]] and [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]], to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.
* A [[blacklist]] is a list of undesirable persons or entities (to be placed on the list is to be "blacklisted").
* [[Black comedy]] is a form of comedy dealing with morbid and serious topics. The expression is similar to [[black humor]] or [[black humour]].
* A black mark against a person relates to something bad they have done.
* A black mood is a bad one (cf [[Winston Churchill]]'s clinical depression, which he called "my black dog").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/016/Dancing%20with%20the%20Black%20Dog%20By%20Hal%20Haralson_016_7_.htm|title=Dancing with the Black Dog|first=Hal|last=Haralson|work=christianethicstoday.com|access-date=10 November 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107205020/http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/016/Dancing%20with%20the%20Black%20Dog%20By%20Hal%20Haralson_016_7_.htm|archive-date=7 November 2006}}</ref>
* [[Black market]] is used to denote the trade of illegal goods, or alternatively the illegal trade of otherwise legal items at considerably higher prices, e.g. to evade [[rationing]].
* [[Black propaganda]] is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse an opponent.
* [[Blackmail]] is the act of threatening someone to do something that would hurt them in some way, such as by revealing sensitive information about them, in order to force the threatened party to fulfill certain demands. Ordinarily, such a threat is illegal.
* If the black eight-ball, in [[billiards]], is sunk before all others are out of play, the player loses.
* The [[black sheep]] of the family is the ne'er-do-well.
* To [[Blackball (blacklist)|blackball]] someone is to block their entry into a club or some such institution. In the traditional English [[gentlemen's club]], members vote on the admission of a candidate by secretly placing a white or black ball in a hat. If upon the completion of voting, there was even one black ball amongst the white, the candidate would be denied membership, and he would never know who had "blackballed" him.
* [[Black tea]] in the Western culture is known as "crimson tea" in Chinese and [[Chinese culture|culturally]] influenced languages ({{ill|紅茶|lt=紅茶|zh|vertical-align=sup}}, [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin Chinese]] ''hóngchá''; Japanese ''kōcha''; Korean ''hongcha'').
* "The black" is a [[wildfire suppression]] term referring to a burned area on a [[wildfire]] capable of acting as a safety zone.
* Black coffee refers to coffee without sugar or cream.