Okay, this was not the Man in Black himself--he had been dead for three months.
The man in black is stood way up, on the ledge of the 90th floor of America's tallest building.
The Man in Black abused pills and liquor and sang in a deep baritone about the outlaw life, but that's not who we meet at first.
He become as famous for his image as an outlaw figure, for playing in prisons and creating the myth of the Man in Black, his semi-official nickname.
Wilson Banks, the present day chaplain tells me there are still two or three lifers at Cummins who were there over 40 years ago when the Man in Black came to visit.
Boos turned to loud cheers inside the stadium when Almunia dived left to keep out Diamanti's kick and preserve their lead, but it did not discourage Wenger from expressing his opinion to the man in black as the teams walked off at half-time.
As some people fell and others ran screaming, the man in the black cap casually walked away.
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Jeff Bauman, who survived but lost both legs, saw the man in the black cap drop his bag.
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Boseman merely acts as the rock around which his own story revolves (this is of course something the film acknowledges, as Robinson is forced to play the role of the generic black man in the eyes of his fans).
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Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
Fast forward a few decades and the notion of a black man in the Oval Office provides ample joke fodder for comics such as Richard Pryor and Chris Rock.
Ben was dressed in his usual urban streetwear, the only black man in the room.
In Britain the feeling has been, ever since the blitz days, that a man who bought in the black market deprived other Britons of their share.
They will also be asking whether what Mr Carter describes could really happen in America and, of course, if the country is ready to put a black man in the White House.
The illustration on the cover showed a black man in a gleaming top hat, white gloves, mouth open in the act of singing.
The only politician he discusses at any length in his first book is the black man who was mayor of Chicago when Obama first moved there, in 1985, Harold Washington.
In 1969, Evers' brother Charles was the first black man elected mayor in Mississippi.
The shooting in August 2011 of a young black man by police in north London set off days of the worst rioting across the capital in 30 years.
Behind him, a clean-cut middle aged man in a black suit stood surveying the scene in the park, taking swigs from a from a bottle of orange soda, frowning.
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Liuzzo had to be aware of the dangers of a white woman being seen in a car with a black man at the time, says David Truskoff, one of the marchers who met Liuzzo in Selma.
Fabien Lefevre of France finished second with Togo's Benjamin Boukpeti winning the bronze medal to become the first black man to win a medal in a canoe slalom event.
I've heard this "fear factor" time and time again, and it speaks to the deep concern blacks have that America has not advanced enough to be comfortable with a black man in the White House.
The man, wearing a black overcoat, approached the bus purposefully in heavy morning snow as soldiers were boarding, set down his umbrella and went under the chassis as if to fix something, according to a witness.
Mr. SWAYNE: For me, as a black man, the idea of - in certain ways is akin to somebody saying well, because black people in the 1930s and '40s couldn't get in to the top schools, they're not going to get educated.
He says the man pointed to a woman in a black Muslim headscarf and identified her as his wife.
Soon after we stepped onto the street, a wiry man in a black nylon jacket stopped my translator and talked to him intently.
Revered for sleek and snazzy products, the company and its man-in-black patriarch made a string of dubious choices about what features to include.
According to the unedited conversation, Mr Zimmerman was asked directly by the dispatcher whether the man in question was "white, black or Hispanic".
Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.
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