Random Facts
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Which U.S. Representative is best known for saying, "I am reclaiming my time"?
Maxine Waters
Which scientist developed approximately 300 products from peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Which author wrote The Coldest Winter Ever?
Sister Souljah
Who was the first to receive a Pulitzer prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950.
Who is the Black Arts Movement poet who changed his name from Don Luther Lee?
Haki R. Madhubuti
Which poet and essayist said, "there are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints"?
Rita Dove
What did Frederick M. Jones invent?
Frederick M. Jones invented the first portable air conditioning unit.
What is the name of Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut novel?
The Water Dancer
Who was the first to become published three years before American independence?
Phillis Wheatley published her book, Poems on Various Subjects, in 1773.
Which African American author and performance poet is best known for her pen name, "Sapphire"?
Ramona Lofton
Which novelist and poet said, "perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people--the beauty within themselves"?
Langston Hughes
Who invented the 3-light traffic light and the gas mask?
Garret Morgan
Which author wrote Children of Blood and Bone?
The Cohambee River Collective is named after whose Civil War military accomplishment?
Harriet Tubman
What is Jamaica Kincaid's country of origin?
Antigua
Which novelist and poet said, "not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced"?
James Baldwin
Who invented the first "baby buggy," AKA baby stroller?
William H. Richardson
Which novel by N.K. Jemisin is the first volume in the Broken Earth series?
The Fifth Season
Who was the first to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar in 1940 for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
Alice Walker was briefly educated at what HBCU?
Spelman College
Who popularized the phrase "on fleek"?
Kayla Newman
Alexander Miles invented what product that is now widely used?
Alexander Miles invented the modern day elevator.
Who wrote the Patternist series, consisting of Patternmaster, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Wild Seed, and Clay's Ark?
Octavia Butler
What was the first all-black film production company?
The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, founded in 1916 by Noble Johnson and George Johnson.