Black Hand

Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to:

People

• Black Hand (graffiti artist), an Iranian street artist

Extortionists and underground groups

• Black Hand (extortion), an extortion racket practised by the Camorra and Mafia members in Italy and the United States
  • Black Hand (Chicago), the extortion as practised in Chicago
• Black Hand (Palestine) (al-Kaff al-Aswad), an Islamist militant group in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s
• Black Hand (Serbia) (Црна Рука), a secret society devoted to Serbian unification in the 1910s
• La Mano Negra ("The Black Hand"), a supposed secret and violent anarchist organization in Spain at the end of the 19th century
• Black Hand (Slovenia) (Črna roka), a terrorist anti-communist organization that carried out assassinations in the Slovene Lands during World War II
• Yiddish Black Hand, a.k.a. Jewish Black Hand Association or, simply, The Black Hand (די שווארצע האנט), a Jewish criminal organization during the early 20th century beginning in 1906, i.e., the name of the Jewish Mafia

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Black Hand Gang, a children's comics series by Hans Jürgen Press

Books

• The Black Hand (book), a non-fiction book by Stephan Talty

Fictional entities

• Black Hand (comics) a DC Comics supervillain
• Black Hand (World of Darkness), fictional sect of vampires
• Black Hand, a mercenary faction in Just Cause (video game)

Film

• The Black Hand (1906 film), directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
• Black Hand (1950 film), a film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket
• The Black Hand (1973 film), an Italian crime film starring Lionel Stander as a cop who infiltrates the Mafia

Music

• Mano Negra, a Ska/Worldbeat Alternative punk-fusion band