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

The force added it was responding to a flood on Goetre Fawr Road, Killay, which is closed both ways from The Black Boy Pub to the roundabout.

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One day in 1968, he witnessed a white police officer about to strike a deaf, mute Black boy, Raymond Andrews, while walking down the street.

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In the film there's a scene where a young black boy who had earlier ripped a poster of Hansie off his wall is seen fixing it back together.

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“Forever,” the TV show, is one of the first coming-of-age shows in a long while about a period of time in the life of a Black girl that rides the express highs and lows of adolescence, and one of the first to place a Black boy in the same place of emotional tenderness.

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“I posit that the Black boy is the most vulnerable,” she says.

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