Black Music
A genre of popular music developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans. Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans played a central role in the development of hip hop culture in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s.
What is Hip-Hop?
This month started in 1976 Texas A&M University Afro-American history professor Albert Broussard, this turned into a month-long celebration and was renamed Black History Month.
What is February?
This historical figure served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party was the 1st African American President.
Who is Barack Obama?
This fashion icon Barbadian singer, actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman who created Savage X Fenty which celebrates fearlessness, confidence and inclusivity.
Rihanna
Born in Akron, Ohio this athlete regarded as one of the best players in basketball today. He has an incredible combination of skills, strength, leaping ability, and height that make him one of the best athletes in the world.
Who is Lebron James?
A genre music of African American origin with a soulful vocal style featuring improvisation.
What is R&B?
This movement in the United States was preceded by a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This African American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
Who is Beyoncé Knowles?
This brand was created when the founders were brainstorming for a catchy four-letter word following other big brands such as Nike and Coke.
What is FUBU?
This African American professional tennis player. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court. The Women's Tennis Association ranked her singles world No. 1 on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017.
Who is Serena Williams?
A music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana. Included artiest like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington.
What is Jazz?
This decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.
What is #BlackLivesMatter?
This African-American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Who is Rosa Parks?
This fashion era included block-colored jackets, African prints, neon hues, baggy denim overalls, baseball caps, low-slung basketball singlets, plaid, and the odd turtlenecks.
What is 90's fashion?
This African American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This annual celebration of African-American culture that is held from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually held on the 6th day.
What is Kwanzaa?
This African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
Traced back 5000 years in African culture to 3500 BC—they were very popular among women. They aren't just a style; this craft is a form of art. It started in Africa with the Himba people of Namibia. This hair style can still be seen on this heads of many men and women to this day.
What is Braids?
This African American professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This historical event involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
This African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Worn as a sign of black pride, the clothing item showed unity among the black community. Also, this was worn among Hippies who supported the movement
What is a Dashiki?
former American football fullback, sports analyst and actor. He played for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League from 1957 through 1965. He is known as one of the greatest running backs of all time.
Who is Jim brown?