Black Card Revoked
Finish this phrase:
“You better stop crying before -““Give you something to cry about.”
One of (or arguably the best) rappers of all time who won 8 Grammys for her album, “The Miseducation of ____”
The holiday celebrating when freedom finally came to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas
Juneteenth (June 19th, 1865)
Finish the A. Philip Randolph quote:
“Freedom is never given, it is ____”
-won
The civil rights activist and poet who wrote, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Maya Angelou
It’s seven o’ clock on the dot where am I?
In my drop top cruisin the street
The musician who wrote and performed the song, “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud” in 1968, as a response to the political climate after MLK’s assasination
James Brown
April 4, 1968
When MLK was assassinated
The queer civil rights activist who organized the March on Washington
Bayard Rustin
The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book, “Annie Allen.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
What magazine did I read when “It was all a dream”
Word Up! Magazine
The signature choreographic work of his famous American Dance Theatre is called “Revelations”
Alvin Ailey
The White Lion brought the first indentured African servants to Virginia in this year
1619
The activist, journalist, and author of “The Red Record,” an account of lynchings throughout the southern U.S states
Ida B. Wells
James Baldwin
In Spades, when a player has a card from the lead suit and can follow suit but chooses not to
Reneged
A Black photographer famous for depicting Black life during the Jim Crow Era
Gordon Parks
February 21, 1965
Malcom X was assassinated
The civil rights activist who helped organize the 1961 Freedom Rides, and founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ella Baker
The jazz poet and author of poems “Whitey on the Moon,” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”
Gil Scott Heron
Finish the line from Friday:
“And you know this….”
-“Man!”
The Black artist who created the 35ft sculpture “A Subtlety”, which comments on the role of sugar during the Atlantic Slave Trade, and was at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn
Who is Kara Walker
In response to Emmet Till’s murder, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama Bus on this day
December 1st, 1955
The political activist and African American revolutionary who founded the Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton
The author of “Beloved,” a novel based on the true story of a runaway Black woman.
Toni Morrison