Black Hero Week
This Black Panther leader created free breakfast programs, built the Rainbow Coalition, and was killed during a 1969 police raid.
Who was Fred Hampton?
This trickster hero escaped Brer Fox's trap by convincing him to throw him into the one place he actually wanted to go.
Brer Rabbit
This chef, known as the “Grande Dame of Southern Cooking,” used food to preserve Black history, culture, and memory.
Who is Edna Lewis?
This instrument was banned after the Stono Rebellion because enslaved Africans used it to communicate, preserve culture, and organize resistance.
What is the Drum?
This Brooklyn-born director founded 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks and directed Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Spike Lee?
These immortal cells, taken without permission from a woman with cervical cancer, helped scientists develop the polio vaccine.
what are HeLa Cells?
According to folklore, these enslaved people escaped bondage not by running, but by doing this impossible act.
What is flying back to Africa? (The Flying Africans)
According to Edna Lewis, every spoonful of this dessert offered comfort and a reminder that “we are still here.”
What is peach cobbler?
W.E.B. Du Bois used this term to describe the experience of seeing yourself through your own eyes and through the eyes of a society that judges you.
What is double consciousness?
This superhero king of Wakanda first appeared in 1966 and later became the star of a billion-dollar film that celebrated African culture and Black pride.
Who is Black Panther?
Before becoming the first African American woman in space, this woman earned a medical degree and worked as a physician.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This author became the first Black student at Barnard College and later preserved Black folklore in Mules and Men.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This late-night meal became popular among Harlem Renaissance musicians and performers who worked and played into the early morning hours.
What is chicken and waffles?
This 1915 film helped revive the Ku Klux Klan and used racist stereotypes and blackface to portray Black Americans.
What is a Birth of a Nation?
Spike Lee is famous for this camera technique that makes characters appear to float toward or away from the camera.
What is a double dolly shot?
The FBI program that targeted and disrupted Black leaders and organizations, including the Black Panther Party.
What is COINTELPRO?
In Langston Hughes' poem I, Too, this object represents equality, belonging, and full participation in American society.
What is "the table"?
This travel guide helped Black Americans find safe restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and businesses during segregation.
What is the Green Book?
According to legend, this blues musician gained his incredible guitar skills after making a deal at a crossroads.
Who was Robert Johnson?
In Sinners, these supernatural creatures symbolize forces that exploit Black culture, taking its creativity without giving proper credit.
What are vampires?
While in orbit, Mae Jemison dedicated her mission communications shirt to this Star Trek character, whose example inspired her dream of space travel.
Who is Lieutenant Uhura?
Tupac's rose growing from this unlikely place symbolizes succeeding despite poverty, discrimination, or impossible odds.
What is a crack in the concrete?
In the narrative, the Green Book is compared to this object because it provided guidance, protection, and hope during dangerous travels.
What is the Bible?
This Jamaican-born DJ is credited with helping launch hip hop in 1973 by extending the “breaks” in songs at a Bronx party.
DJ Kool Herc
This phrase from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse became a powerful message that heroism belongs to everyone, regardless of race or background.
What is “Anyone can wear the mask”?