Arts
This black artist is the most awarded Grammy Award winner in history.
Beyoncé
This person published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American.
William Wells Brown
This was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X.
Muhammad Speaks
This magazine is called "The Magazine of Today's Black Woman".
Essence
The iconic phrase, "Bye Felecia" is from this movie.
Friday
This musical instrument now commonly used in the U.S. has an African predecessor.
The Banjo
This person was the first Black American woman to be a bank president.
Maggie Lena Walker
Founded in 1909, this organization was originally founded to advance justice for Black Americans.
NAACP
He currently hosts "CNN Tonight" on the news network CNN.
Don Lemon
This is the name of Molly's dog on the show Insecure.
Flavor Flav
This literary figure came to be called the "poet laureate"of the Negro race.
Langston Hughes
In 1993, she became the first black person to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her.
Toni Morrison
What was knows as an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in New York City spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
This black woman is an EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony).
Whoopi Goldberg
This person has been self-titled the "Swish God".
Nicki Minaj
Actor Daniel Kaluuya depicts this leader of the Black Panther Party in the movie Judas and the Black Messiah.
Fred Hampton
This person was the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
Dorothy Dandridge
Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos did this at the 1968 Summer Olympics to bring light to Black issues
Black Power Salute
This poet performed at President Bill Clinton inauguration in 1993.
Maya Angelou
This popular T.V. show helped launch the careers of Eddie Murphy and Michael Che.
Saturday Night Live
This person wrote the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
Zora Neale Hurston
This actress was the first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Halle Berry
This city was knows to contain "The Black Wall Street".
Tulsa, OK
This athlete defied Hitler's theory of black inferiority by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
Jesse Owens
Magic Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to this many NBA championships.
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