BLACK MUSIC
This singer is known as the "Queen of Soul" and famously recorded "Respect."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This woman became the first black woman elected to the US House of Representatives.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1992 film starring Eddie Murphy introduced audiences to the fictional African Nation of Zamunda.
What is Coming To America?
This hairstyle consists of tightly coiled hair worn naturally in a rounded shape and became especially associated with Black pride during the 1960s and 70s.
This gymnast became the most decorated gymnast in World Championship history and has multiple Olympic gold medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
This Detroit record label founded by Berry Gordy produced artists including Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and The Temptations.
Who is Motown Records?
Who is James Brown?
This actress became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
This term refers to the large-scale movement of Black Americans from the rural South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western cities during the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This woman became the first black woman to travel into space when she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This 1971 Marvin Gaye album addressed war, poverty, environmental concerns, and social injustice and is widely regarded as one of his greatest works.
What is What's Going On?
This neighborhood on Chicago's South Side became a major center of Black culture, business, music, and art during the Great Migration.
What is Bronzeville?
Who directed Malcom X (1992), Do the Right Thing, and Crooklyn?
Who is Spike Lee?
This dance, originating in Chicago's Black communities, became nationally popular in the 1980s and is closely associated with fast footwork and intricate movements.
This basketball player became the first NBA player to average a trip-double for an entire season since Oscar Robertson, accomplishing the feat in 2016-17.
This 1994 album by Nas was his debut studio album and is frequently cited as a landmark in East Coast hip-hop.
What is Illmatic?
Which historically Black university was founded in 1867 as the first institution of higher education established for formerly enslaved blacks in the South?
Howard University
This 1995 film directed by John Singleton follows Tre Styles and his friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles.
What is Boyz n the Hood?
This literary and artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s featured writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This black entrepreneur founded FUBU and later became an investor on the television show Shark Tank.
Who is Daymond John?
This 1972 album by Curtis Mayfield served as the soundtrack to a film about a Harlem drug dealer and includes "Freddie's Dead."
What is Super Fly?
This neighborhood in Tulsa Oklahoma, was known as "The Black Wall Street" before it was destroyed in 1921 massacre.
What is Greenwood?
This 1991 film starring Wesley Snipes, Ice T, and Chris Rock was directed by Mario Van Peebles and centers on a former Marine recruited into a drug operation.
What is New Jack City?
This cultural concept, popularized by scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and later associated with Black intellectual and artistic movements, refers to the idea of a distinct collective consciousness shaped by Black experience.
What is double consciousness?
This Black mathematician worked at NASA and performed calculations that helped make John Glenn's 1962 orbital spaceflight possible.
Who is Katherine Johnson?