For The Culture (The Arts)
Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild, what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina?
What is The Charleston?
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?
What is Roots?
Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry?
What is Rap?
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film?
What is Gone With the Wind?
Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”?
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
What is Spelman College?
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her.
Who is Toni Morrison?
“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I‟ve Seen” are known as what type of songs?
What are Negro Spirituals?
Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station?
What is CNN?
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
Who is James Baldwin?
In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company. Whether working with a low-budget and unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries. Name him.
Who is Spike Lee?
The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He composed how many songs?
Ed Bradley was a member of what news team?
What is 60 Minutes?
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
What is Ebony?
From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate?
What is Morehouse College?
Who's sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?
What is her math calculations helped NASA's space program?
Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black newspaper in 1864. Name it.
What is the New Orleans Tribune?
BONUS - Which sorority from the Divine Nine is Ms. Sims a member of?
What is Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
What famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph Ellison's efforts to become a writer?
Who is Richard Wright?