Match Made in History
The movie, starring Sanaa Lathan & Omar Epps, tells the story of a basketball-playing couple who fall in and out of love.
What is Love & Basketball?
Led enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, often risking her own life.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Supreme Court case, led by Richard and Mildred Loving, legalizing interracial marriage in the U.S.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
The TV Show featuring Dwayne Wayne and Whitney Gilbert as an iconic couple who marry despite their differences.
What is a Different World?
The poet and civil rights activist who recited a poem at President Clinton's inauguration, inspiring millions with themes of love and resilience.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The educator and advisor to presidents that established the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The South African leader spent 27 years in prison fighting apartheid and later became the nation's president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The couple who opened the Highlander Folk School to train activists and leaders during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who are Myles Horton & Septima Clark?
The actors who played Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv, one of TV's most enduring Black couples, on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is James Avery & Janet Hubert and/or Daphne Maxwell Reid?
Founded the United Negro College Fund, which has supported higher education for Black students since 1944.
Who is Federick D. Patterson?
In Poetic Justice, the name of the love interest played by Tupac Shakur.
Who is Lucky?
The Harlem Renaissance poet that wrote "Lift Every Voice & Sing", often called the Black National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
The Black nurse and entrepreneur who founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses.
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
The 2020 romantic drama starring Issa Rae & LaKeith Stanfield, centered around a love story sparked by a found photograph.
What is The Photograph?
Risked their life to register Black voters in the South, saying, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired".
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?