Music
This Chicago native became the first African-American to be the musical director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony in 1971. This person co-produced Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad albums.
Who is Quincy Jones?
This person is a director, producer, writer, and actor. This person is in a film that has a famous line in which 100 Strong's Annual program "Wake Up Call" is named after.
Who is Spike Lee?
This American poet is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance because of new art called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This style of dance originated in Chicago in the 90s that involves a fast movement of the feet.
What is Footworking?
This American actor, filmmaker, and director accumulated 330 acres of land to create one of the largest movie production facilities in the county.
Who is Tyler Perry?
This music genre originated in Black communities in New Orleans in the late 19th, early 20th centuries.
What is Jazz?
"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house! I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead fo' I let him beat me."
What is The Color Purple?
This person was the first Black person to receive a Pulitzer after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This person was the Poet Laureate of Illinois from 1968-2000.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
This style of dance became popularized by Black people in the late 60s, early 70s. It includes moves such as footworking and spinning on hands and knees.
What is Break dancing?
This person was an African-American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. For 30 years, she maintained a self-titled dance company, the only self-supported black Dance Troupe during that time.
Who is Katherine Dunham?
This was a singer that widely known for her activism anthem "Young, Gifted and Black"
Who is Nina Simone?
This movie by Tyler Perry was adapted from an American drama about the interconnected lives of ten women of color.
What is For Colored Girls?
This person was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. This person first gained attention for his graffiti in NYC.
Who is Jean Michel Basquiat?
This dance style is newly recognized as a fusion between ballet and hip hop.
What is Hiplet?
This person made the Happy Birthday song as a petition to get Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to become a national holiday.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Chuck Berry is known as the father of this genre of music
What is Rock and Roll?
This person is a writer, producer, and director. Widely know for being the director of film Selma and documentary 13th.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
Author of Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye and many more. This person was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This person was a dancer, choreographer, director, and activist. This person also founded a self-titled dance theater, which is one of the most successful dance companies worldwide.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
This person was a French entertainer and the first African-American to star in a major motion picture.
Who is Josephine Baker?
This person was a a composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra. This composer was famous for their participation in Cotton Club in Harlem in the 1920s.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This play was written by August Wilson in 1985 about the African American experience in Pittsburg. In 2016, this was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington.
What is Fences?
The first Black woman to publish a book of poetry.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This person is the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland?
This song was sang by famous blues singer Billie Holiday, and was about black lynching in the south. It was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish school teacher from the Bronx, New York.
What is "Strange Fruit".