Caribbean Diaspora
This Caribbean nation was the first Black republic formed after a successful slave revolt in 1804.
What is Haiti?
This country has the largest population of people of African descent outside of Africa.
What is Brazil?
This South African leader became the country’s first Black president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This music genre was born in the Bronx in the 1970s.
What is Hip Hop?
This Hunter-alum, poet and activist wrote "Sister Outsider" and explored race, gender, and sexuality in her work.
Who is Audre Lorde?
This Jamaican raggae artist popularized songs like "One Love" and became a global symbol of unity.
Who is Bob Marley?
This Cuban singer was known as the “Queen of Salsa.”
Who is Celia Cruz?
This Nigerian artist became the first African performer to sell out a U.S. stadium tour.
Who is Burna Boy?
In 2021, this holiday commemorating the end of slavery in Texas became a federal holiday.
What is Juneteenth?
This Black trans activist was a key figure in the Stonewall uprising.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This Barbadian singer became the youngest solo artist to top Billboard Hot 100 and is now a billionaire business mogul.
Who is Rihanna?
This Afro-Puerto Rican baseball legend broke barriers in Major League Baseball and later became a humanitarian icon.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
This 1884–85 European meeting formalized the partition of Africa without African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This 1992 Los Angeles uprising exposed tensions and alliances, between Black and Korean American communities.
What is the Los Angeles Riots (LA Uprising)?
This Black feminist scholar coined the term “intersectionality.”
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This Afro-Cuban religion blends Yoruba spirituality with Catholicism and is widely practiced in Cuba and the diaspora.
What is Santeria?
This Colombian town is widely recognized as the first free Black Settlement in the Americas.
What is San Basilio de Palenque?
This African country was never fully colonized during the European "Scramble for Africa" (except for a brief Italian occupation).
What is Ethiopia?
This Tulsa district was destroyed in 1921 despite being one of the wealthiest Black communities in America.
What is Black Wall Street (Greenwood District)?
This 1990 documentary highlighted ballroom culture and Black & Latinx LGBTQ communities in NYC.
What is Paris is Burning?
This 1937 massacre, ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, targeted Haitians living near the Dominican-Haitian border.
What is the Parsley Massacre?
In 2015, this Latin American country officially recognized its Afro-descendant population in its national census for the first time?
What is Mexico?
This Pan-African leader became Ghana's first Prime Minister and later President after independence in 1957.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This organization was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and advocated for armed self-defense and community programs.
What is The Black Panther Party?
This Puerto Rican drag performer and activist was one of the first openly gay candidates to run for public office on the island in the 1970's.
Who is Pedro Julio Serrano? Also acceptable Antonio Pantojas