black boy

/ ˈblækˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. another name for grass tree

Black Boy

1. (1945) An autobiographical novel by the African-American author Richard Wright , portraying racial conflicts in the rural South.

Example Sentences

It was while writing 2020’s “Small Axe,” his anthology of films about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London, that McQueen came across a photograph that brought “Blitz” to the forefront of his mind: an image of a young Black boy in an oversized coat with a large suitcase, standing on a railway platform during World War II. The unidentified boy, one of more than 800,000 children evacuated from cities in the U.K. during the war, was a striking discovery.

From Los Angeles Times

Sure, then-City Council president Nury Martinez — who disparaged Oaxacans and described a young Black boy as a monkey — resigned and has stayed away from politics.

From Los Angeles Times

He tells me he beat a Black boy with a tire iron and how if I keep getting in his way, that’ll happen to me.

From Los Angeles Times

You only have to open Richard Wright’s “Black Boy,” Agnes Smedley’s “Daughter of Earth” or Justin Torres’ “We the Animals” to see their protagonists’ appreciation of beauty and ability to experience profound pleasure – yes, all while experiencing poverty.

From Salon

‘Blood at the Root,’ LaDarrion Williams’ first novel in a three-book deal — a series that centers on a Black boy in a YA fantasy saga — is the kind of fiction he wishes existed when he was a kid.

From Los Angeles Times