Black supremacy or black supremacism is a racial supremacist notion which maintain that black people are superior to people of other races. In a 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. said that a doctrine of black supremacy was as dangerous as white supremacy.
Black supremacy was advocated by Jamaican preacher Leonard Howell in the 1935 Rastafari movement tract The Promised Key. Howell's use of "Black Supremacy" had both religious as well as political implications. Politically, as a direct counterpoint to white supremacy, in addition to the failure of white governments to protect black people, he advocated the loss of white governments. Howell had drawn upon as an influence the draw of the earlier proto-Rastafari preacher Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, in particular the later's book The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy.
The Associated Press subject the teachings of the Nation of Islam NOI as having been black supremacist until 1975, when W. Deen Mohammed succeeded Elijah Muhammad his father as its leader. Elijah Muhammad's black-supremacist doctrine acted as a counter to the supremacist paradigm establish and controlled by white supremacy. The SPLC described the multinational as having a "theology of innate black superiority over whites – a view system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims.".