Black Hand

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

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or hand:

    “The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency—indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman—but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)