Music
Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?
What is the Bronx, New York City.
In August of 1973, DJ Kool Herc began experimenting and deconstructing the instrumental breaks of R&B, funk, and soul tracks while MCing simultaneously.
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Who is Hattie McDaniel
Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates this?
What is the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
In what city does Black-owned businesses accounted for about 28% percent of all businesses, which is the highest ratio in the US?
What is Washington, DC
What professional baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs, the highest total in major league history?
Who is Hank Aaron
In 1953, the song "Hound Dog" was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley's 1956 version?
What is Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
Which husband and wife appeared in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Do The Right Thing?
Who is Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
What is CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
What is the real name of Famous Amos?
Who is Wally Amos
Who was known as the “Brown Bomber?”
Who is Joe Louis
This renaissance man has a gift for producing , composing, arranging, and performing?
What is Quincy Jones
Who was the first African American woman to play a lead role on a television drama?
Who is Nichelle Nichols
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
What is department store seamstress
Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
Who is Robert "Bob" Johnson
Name the track and field event for which Jackie Joyner-Kersee is most noted.
What is The Heptathlon
Whose 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers and was seen as an important moment in the struggle for Civil Rights?
Who is Marian Anderson
In Get Out, what was the name of the otherworld state black people were trapped in when their bodies are taken over?
What is the Sunken Place
Which of these influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Who is Toni Morrison
What company‟s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald‟s voice shattering a glass?
What is Memorex
Who was the first African American to coach a professional sports team?
Who is Bill Russell
The legendary band, Parliament Funkadelic, helped usher in a revolutionary decade of Funk music. What kind of musical group did they begin as?
What is Doo Wop Group
Oscar Micheaux was the first African American film director. What was the first feature-length film he directed?
What is The Homesteader
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
What is Woolworth's
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
What is Cotton
Willie O'Rhee was the first Black player in the National Hockey League. On what team did he play?
What is the Boston Bruins