Food
Cherry and fruit punch are two of the most popular Kool-Aid flavors, in the black community they are referred to as.
What is Red?
She holds the record for most Grammy awards (35 overall wins) & became the first Black artist to win Best Country Album in 2025.
Who is Beyoncé?
She was the first Black person to serve on the Operating Committee of JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest bank by market capitalization
Who is Thasunda Brown Duckett?
This South African revolutionary & first Black president fought against apartheid, inspiring African American activities in the civil rights & Black power movement.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This city has the largest population of black people in the U.S. known for the cultural renaissance of art, & music. Home to the Apollo Theater, Louis Armstrong, the first black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm & Hip-Hop music.
What is New York City? (Best city ever)
As the clock strikes midnight on NYE, households across the United States sit down to enjoy these legumes. They are a symbol of luck, prosperity and cultural unity.
What are black eyed peas?
He was the first (and only) African-American actor to win Academy Awards in both acting categories - lead and supporting.
Who is Denzel Washington?
First Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company (1987)
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., CEO of TIAA-CREF from 1987-1993
This towering figure in reggae music, his songs about justice & resistance became anthems for African American activities.
Who is Bob Marley?
The second largest black city. A thriving center for black wealth, higher education, power & prosperity. Martin Luther King made it the cradle of the civil rights movement.
What is Atlanta?
This vegetable originated in Africa & Asia & enslaved Africans brought it to the U.S. This food is a dinner staple during the Thanksgiving & Christmas holidays.
What is a Yam?
In 2002 she was the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
First Black billionaire in the U.S.
Who is Robert Johnson?
Born in Jamaica, this Pan-Africanist leader advocated for Black pride & economic empowerment. Laying the foundation for movements like the Nation of Islam & the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This city is called “chocolate city.” The home of Frederick Douglas, known for Chuck Browns “go go” music. Historic memorials, marches for civil rights, home to the largest African American museum, it's where laws are made.
What is Washington D.C.?
Black people living in Jim Crow south could not have this flavor of ice cream except on the Forth of July.
What is vanilla ice cream?
In 1983 he became the first African-American artist to have a video shown on MTV
Who was Michael Jackson?
First Black woman licensed Nascar driver (2016)
Who is Tia Norfleet?
The Haitian revolutionary who led the first successful slave rebellion & inspired African Americans & abolitionists across the U.S.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This city was founded by a man of Haitian & French descent Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in 1780. Millions of blacks migrated to this city during the great migration from share cropping to laborers. Home to Johnson Publishing that issued Jet and Ebony magazine & the Oprah Winfrey show. The residents love The Blues, created House Music & they love to ballroom dance and step in the name of love.
What is Chicago?
Slaves were taken to countries like Brazil, Jamaica, Barbados & Puerto Rico to produce this sweet crop.
What is Sugar?
She was the first African-American (& first person) to have 7 consecutive number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, 1st African-American woman to make more than $10 million in a motion picture & is widely regarded as having the best national anthem performance of all time (Super Bowl XXV).
Who was Whitney Houston?
First Black woman to design the official NFL Super Bowl logo and theme art (2025).
Who is Tahj "Queen Tahj" Williams?
The Ghanaian leader who promoted Pan-African unity & significantly influenced American Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. & Malcolm X.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
The city's roots are deeply intertwined with African American history & culture and that supports a Black population of 1.2 million+ residents. Home of HBCU Paul Quinn College,& known for creative Grammy award winner Erykah Badu & evangelist TD Jakes & Congresswoman, Jasmine Crocket.
What is Ft Worth?
There is a line in a popular Outkast song that mentions 2 foods that are staples in black homes on Saturday morning. The line goes "Now throw your hands in the air, And wave 'em like you just don't care, And if you like ____ and ____ and all that pimp $$$, Everybody let me hear you say, "Oh-yeah-yer"
What is fish and grits?
In 2024, this critically acclaimed South Philly mockumentary sitcom won 9 awards & has won 58 awards overall in various categories since its first airing on Dec. 7, 2001
What is Abbott Elementary?
Although only the "acting governor" for 35 days, he is still considered the first African American to serve as governor.
Who is Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback?
An Australian heavyweight boxer who had a significant international career who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural 1990 class. He also strongly influenced Muhammed Ali.
Who is Peter Jackson?
The city received 150,000 to 250,000 mostly black evacuees from the New Orleans metro after Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. It's home to 2 HBCUs Texas Southern University, & Prairie View, Journalist Roland Martin & Beyonce. The city is also known for its Influence for making Juneteenth a state holiday in Texas.
What is Houston?
The combination of these two foods is often associated with negative stereotypes about African Americans. These foods have been linked to derogatory caricatures which perpetuates harmful racial stereotypes.
What is chicken and watermelon?
In 1987 she became the first African-American woman (and first woman) inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who was Aretha Franklin?
She was the first African American person (and woman) to invent a home security system.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
Known as the "Queen of Jazz," this American-born performer found fame in France, used her platform to fight racism, & was an inspiration to Black artists worldwide
Who is Josephine Baker?
During the 18th century, this city was at the center of the abolitionist movement and had the country’s largest population of free Black people. The city was also a major stop on the Underground Railroad, especially for slaves escaping through Maryland and Delaware. Hip hop artist like rap groups like Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince to the Roots, Eve & Meek Mill call this city home.
What is Philadelphia?
Enslaved Africans didn't just plant the cash crop – they likely introduced its cultivation to the US. This crop was highly cultivated in Charleston, SC.
What is rice?
In 1964, he became the first Black actor & first Bahamian actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who was Sidney Poitier?
The first Black person to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics? It was for the long jump in 1924
Who is William DeHart Hubbard?
This Nobel Prize- winning environmental activist from Kenya inspired African American environmental justice movements
Who is Wangari Maathai?
This city is a tourist mecca. Afro-Caribbean, & African American people have always been a part of the city’s history. The city has one HBCU the Florida Memorial University where brothers John Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 1900.
What is Miami?
Slave owners keep desirable cuts of the pig for themselves and gave undesirable parts such as the ears, feet and intestines to the slaves. This popular dish is made from pig intestines.
What are chitterlings?
First Black woman to win a Grammy in 1958
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
He was the first Black senator in American history.
Who is Hiram Revels?
His book The Wretched of the Earth became essential reading for Black liberation movements in America & worldwide.
Who is Frantz Fanon?
In the early 1900s, many African Americans moved to this city for work in the automobile industry. The city was a center of the civil rights movement notable Black residents include Ralph Bunche, Charles Diggs Jr., Della Reese. Rosa Parks made this city her home. This city has had the largest NAACP chapter since 1912. It’s also known for its culture, art & innovation, it introduced the world to the Motown Sound, Joe Louis, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross & others.
What is Detroit?
The "Holy Trinity" are 3 common ingredients in Cajun and Creole recipes like gumbo, jambalaya or étouffée.
What are onions, green bell peppers and celery?
In 1962, she became the first Black woman to win a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in No Strings.
Who is Diahann Carroll?
First person of African descent, & first enslaved person to have their work published (1773)
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This former slave from Antigua became a leading abolitionist in Britain & worked closely with Frederick Douglass to end slavery worldwide.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The first blacks in the city were mulattos & Afro-Mexicans who immigrated to California from Sinaloa and Sonora in northwestern Mexico. Throughout the years this city has had riots that stemmed from racial and social injustice from the Watts riots to beating of Rodney King. Great athletes Venus & Serena Williams, Carl Lewis, & Flo Jo, just to name a few.
What is Los Angeles?