Lynching was all too often the penalty for the offense of black skin.
The shell is flexible and covered in a black leathery skin - hence the name leatherback.
But fear not: while the new PowerBook's chassis is unchanged, under that black polycarbonate skin is a totally new logic board that gives this portable more in common with Apple's supercomputing G4 desktop machines than last year's PowerBook.
Its mirror-finish black steel skin reflects every passing cloud, giving the building a mysterious totemlike quality, while inside unfinished ceilings are painted deep blue and almost every space can be used flexibly, whether for exhibiting, performances or local events.
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The flat, black-looking skin of the whale peaked above the water for just a few seconds before submerging again.
Embassies have complained publicly this year about violence against people who happen to have a black or brown skin.
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Named after postal worker Rudolph Hass, who purchased the seedling in 1926 from a California farmer, the distinctive purplish-black fruit has a thicker skin and smaller body than other varieties.
Highlights: truffle surprise (a nugget of pt de foie gras, wrapped in a glistening skin of shredded black truffle, nested in a ball of gele), and one of the most mouth-wateringly delicious chocolate souffls ever served in a New York restaurant.
The dressing covering the wound where his arm had been was secured by white bandages that stretched across his breastbone, contrasting with his dark skin and his nearly black nipples.
She had black hair, blue eyes and porcelain skin, and she stared down students taller and older than she was.
Within 24 to 48 hours, an itchy red bump that resembles a bug bite develops, with a characteristic black area in the center where the skin is dying.
Black, wife of private equity billionaire Leon Black, had had the earliest form of skin cancer seven years before, so she diligently went for screenings every few months.
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Then there was a misguided ad that accidentally implied that Dove body wash can help black and Latina women achieve the smooth, even skin tone of a white person.
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The two men hugged and shook hands, their skin tones -- one tan, one midnight black -- creating a noticeable contrast as they embraced.
"It shows black people now refuse to vote just on the colour of skin, policies such as the war and education also have a big impact, " OBV director Simon Woolley said.
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Europeans spoke of white moors, brown and tawny moors, as well as black moors, for the word "moor" indicated neither skin color nor ethnicity the moors whose long and culturally fruitful domination of Spain was finally ended in 1492 were mainly of Berber and Arab stock.
So, cast as a black man in the war movie, Lazarus decides to dye his skin surgically.
Whenever the lower hem wasn't covering up legs, tight black leggings made of bandage strips and knee-high boots covered up any skin.
As previously reported, the Bextra label also includes a "black box" warning--the most serious kind--for a dangerous skin condition called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.
Kelly Rowland bared some skin too through sheer stripes that ran in all sorts of direction in her black Georges Chakra gown.
Bennie has light-brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair into a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin LP.
The American wore the same self-designed black lace number she had unveiled against Schnyder, a see-through skirted bodice featuring a skin-coloured undergarment.
But the researchers found that many of the participants completely avoided asking their partners about the skin color of the person in the photograph especially when paired with a black partner.
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The WiFi remote that comes with the Hero3 Black Edition is similarly solid in its construction, though we wish it had the same textured skin as the camera instead of its smooth exterior.
They both agreed that if they were pictured in the same frame, there would be those, confronted with their contrasting skin tones, who would falsely assume that the white producer must be the real mastermind behind the black musician's music.
The obsession of the novel's characters with degrees of skin colour, or the lack thereof, threatens to force the heroine, a near-white black, to call off her planned marriage to a white jazz musician and instead to encourage the crude advances of a nut-brown man with three daughters.
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