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Name the actor who won the first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance.
Will Smith
What Philadelphia native became the first African American woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera?
Marian Anderson
Who holds the title of “Most Top 10 Singles” from an album in 1982?
Michael Jackson
Who is the music composer and producer known as the most Grammy-nominated artist in the history of the awards?
Quincy Jones
Who was the NFL Football Quarterback that took a knee during the “National Anthem” to bring attention to racial injustice and police brutality?
Colin Kaepernick
What Hip-hop group became the first rap act to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone and make a video appearance on MTV?
Run-D.M.C.
What is the name of the first black television host?
Oprah Winfrey
In 2006, what singer was named the most awarded female artist of all time by the Guinness World Records?
Whitney Houston
Which African American Poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance graduated from Lincoln University?
Langston Hughes
What is the name of the first African American woman to have her own weekly television series entitled “Julia”?
Diahann Carroll
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie Mc Daniel
Who was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture and to become a world-famous entertainer?
Josephine Baker
Who is the Soul singer who became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987?
Aretha Franklin
Which Pulitzer Prize winning author was born in Eatonton, Georgia? Her novels and stories portray the hardships endured by Southern blacks. She wrote “In Love and Trouble” (1973) and “The Color Purple” (1982), which was made into a major motion movie in 1985.
Alice Walker
In 1959, who became the first African-American woman to earn a Grammy Award?
Ella Fitzgerald
Who became the first black billionaire in America in 2001?
Robert Johnson, the owner of Black
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Who was the first black male artist to win a Grammy, in 1958?
Count Basie
Who is the African-American entertainer who was the first to star in his own television series?
Nat King Cole
Name the entertainer that by the time he was four, had traveled to ten states and performed in over 50 cities in the 1930’s.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Who was the first African American to host a hit variety series on television in 1970?
Flip Wilson
Who was the first African American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964?
Sidney Poitier
What’s the name of the first U.S. record label owned and operated by African-Americans?
Black Swan Records
Who was the first African-American artist to make a Blues record?
Mamie Smith
Singer-actor Paul Robeson starred in the musical Showboat in 1928, singing his famous rendition of which song?
Old Man River
Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks