Before smartphones, your mama handed you a few quarters to make a call from this blue and silver box outside the corner store
PAYPHONES
First Black President
Barack Obama
This song is widely known as the Black National Anthem.
Lift Every Voice
Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots
H-Town
back in the old neighborhood where it all began. It's Christmas time and a ghetto Santa Claus breaks into their run-down apartment, stealing all their presents, including the rent money.
Friday After Next
Before there was Walmart everywhere, this was the go-to store to buy toys, snacks, and sneakers — and they had that blue light special.
Kmart
Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, sparking a historic boycott that became a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
This man is known as "the Godfather of Soul"
James Brown
A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly and is also known as a busta.
TLC
Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales suddenly develops mysterious powers
Spiderman Into The Spider - Verse
Back in the day, before Netflix and chill, Friday night meant driving here to pick out a VHS tape and arguing over who got to choose.
Blockbuster
This man invented peanut butter.
George Washington Carver
As a child this is the time you had to be back in the house.
When the street lights came on.
Cause my heart starts beating triple time, with thoughts of loving you on my mind
TELVIN CAMPBELL
A group of bank-robbing best friends takes control of their fate when society gives them no other options — but loyalty and tragedy collide.
Set It Off
If your teacher rolled one of these big, squeaky carts into the classroom, you knew it was about to be a chill day
TV CART
Who was the first African American millionaire?
Madam C.J Walker
An invitation to this gathering is not easy to come by, just one mistake and your access can/will be immediately revoked.
The Cookout
You can have anything I got
All of me right on the spot
Jahiem
A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in.
Back to the Future
Before TikTok, this app gave us 6-second comedy gold
VINE
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison for fighting against apartheid (which is South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation).
Nelson Mandela
known for her hits such as "At Last", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" this american singer passed away in 2012
Etta James
My body all over your body, baby
Your body all over my body, baby
LSG
A half-mortal, half-immortal is out to avenge his mother's death and rid the world of vampires
BLADE
promised to ‘knock out the fat’ while grilling burgers, chicken, and more indoors
George Forman Grill
Who was the first black woman to be elected to congress?
Shirly Chisholm
This is what your momma said she was not whenever you were in trouble.
Your lil friend
I get in my feelings off that Henn', dawg
I'm gon' be this way until the end, dawg
I got too much on my mind and I cannot get it off
rod wave
An LAPD detective must survive one intense day with his crooked partner.
Training Day
this legendary Orlando water park was the place for school trips, wave pools, and sunburns that lasted all week.
Wet N Wild
This national scholarship program is named after Americas first African American supreme court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
In the waning days of Prohibition, Sugar Ray and his adopted son, Quick, run a speakeasy called Club Sugar Ray.
Harlem Nights
This bright red electronics superstore had endless rows of DVDs and video games, and their ‘Going Out of Business’ sales were legendary.
Cricut City
This is known as the 1st Black sitcom.
Good Times
This was a sign that it was a cleaning day in your house.
music blasting from the speakers
Ayo, I'm slippin', I'm fallin', I can't get up
DMX
When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy tries to save her dog from a storm, she's miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land.
The Wiz
Before CVS took over the neighborhood, this blue-and-white pharmacy chain was the go-to spot for film developing, cough syrup, and after-school snacks
Eckerds
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Halle Berry
This flavor of Koolaid is regarded as the best flavor of Koolaid.
Grape/Purple
I need it and I want it, so I gotta get a ruffneck!
MC Lyte
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again
Sinners
This iconic store gave us free samples, $5 CDs, and stacks of DVDs… but streaming took it out
FYE
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of hip hop?
The Bronx, NY
I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go.
The Temptations
Navigating through careers, family and romance, four friends bond over the shortcomings in their love lives -- namely, the scarcity of good men.
Waiting to Exhale