Black Hand Explained

Black Hand or The Black Hand may refer to:

Extortionists and underground groups

Black Hand (La Mano Negra), 1919–1924 Mexican-American raiders of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant
Black Hand (anarchism) (La Mano Negra), a presumed secret, anarchist organization based in the Andalusian region of Spain during the early 1880s
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 (Egypt) (al-Yad al-Sawda), an Egyptian nationalist anti-British occupation group in the Sultanate of Egypt in the 1910s
Black Hand (Mandatory 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
Black Hand (Slovenia) (Črna roka), an 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, a criminal organization that operated on New York's Lower East Side during the early 20th century

Black Hand (graffiti artist), Iranian street artist
José Manuel Martínez (born 1962), known as "El Mano Negra", former Mexican drug cartel hitman
Mano Negra (wrestler) (born 1951), Mexican luchador (professional wrestler)

The Black Hand (1906 film), an American silent gangster film, directed by Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
The Black Hand (1917 film), a 1917 Austrian silent crime film
Black Hand (1950 film), an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket
The Black Hand (1968 film), a French-Italian crime thriller film
The Black Hand (1973 film), an Italian crime film starring Lionel Stander as a cop who infiltrates the Mafia