Grab Life by the Balls
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball during the 20th century.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This Civil Rights organization, founded in 1919 and formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans, is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Though created from African American blues, folk songs and spiritual, this genre of music is stereotypical not associated with the Black community. That is before Beyoncé’s Album of the Year win in 2024.
What is Country?
This late actor, known for his role as King T’challa in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther has also played Jackie Robinson and James Brown in each of their respective biopics.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
Homie
She has 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals making her the most decorated gymnast in history.
Who is Simone Biles?
Take that Plessy vs Ferguson! This Supreme Court Case declared racial segregation in public school unconstitutional, overturning the decision of "separate but equal.”
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Find out what it means to me! This iconic figure in Black music, known as the Queen of Soul was born in Memphis, Tennessee, though she spent most of her life in Detroit Michigan.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
“In West Philadelphia, born and raised,” Will Smith starred in this 90s sitcom about a troublemaker from urban Philadelphia who moves in with his extended family in California.
Trippin’
What is “overreacting/being irrational?”
The OG GOAT. The heavyweight boxer was arrested, fined, and banned from his sport for refusing the draft during the Vietnam War, which described as “white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Spanning the 1920s and 1930s, this was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art fashion, literature, theatre politics and scholarship centered in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Initially developed from West Africa and the diaspora, this style of music is most identifiable by its signature driving drum beat rhythms, whether electronic or instrumental.
What are Afrobeats?
Hattie McDaniel became the first black person ever to win this prestigious award for the film Gone With the Wind, though she was forced to sit at a segregated table, away from the rest of her castmates.
I’ll Holla at You
What is “I’ll talk to you later?”
This San Francisco 49er gained national attention in 2016 for kneeling during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
We had one too! Located in Tulsa Oklahoma, this Black-owned self-sufficient prosperous business district was targeted by a white mob in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 and burned to the ground.
What is Black Wall Street?
This type of religious folksong is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South.
What are Spirituals?
Multitalented Queen! Whitney Houston starred in the 1992 film, The Bodyguard, where this song, originally written by and for Dolly Parton, was featured on the film’s soundtrack and won the Grammy for Record of the Year.
What is “I Will Always Love You?”
I’m not the one
What is “Don’t mess with me?”
Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved first during the US national anthem at this significant sports event, resulting in a demonstration that has become synonymous with “Black Power.”
What are the 1968 Summer Olympics?
“Bring back the death penalty!” At least that’s what Trump said for Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Satana, and Korey Wise, who were falsely accused, convicted, and later exonerated for the assault of a white woman in New York City. The 5 of them are collectively known as this.
Who are the Central Park 5?
This album by Michael Jackson is the most successful album of all time.
What is Thriller?
In 1971, this dancing variety Television show became one of the public television series only nationally available shows at the time, by black people for black people.
What is Soul Train?
Finna
What is “going to do something?”