Black Hand may refer to:
In underground groups:
- Black Hand (extortion), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States
- Black Hand (Serbia) (Crna Ruka), a secret society devoted to Serbian unification in 1910s
- Black Hand (Palestine) (al-Kaff al-Aswad), an Islamist militant group in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s
- La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand"), a supposed secret and violent anarchist organization in Spain at the end of the 19th century
In modern culture
- Mano Negra, a French pop-fusion band
- Black Hand Gang, a series by Hans Jürgen Press
- Black Hand (comics) a DC Comics supervillain
- Black Hand (World of Darkness), fictional sect of vampires
- Black Hand (VTES), the sixth expansion of White Wolf's collectible trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
- Black Hand, a faction of the Brotherhood of Nod in the Command & Conquer series of games
- Black Hand, a subversive group in the novel Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- The Black Hand, 1906 movie; the earliest surviving gangster film (11 min.)
- Black Hand (1950 film), 1950 film starring Gene Kelly
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—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
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