Black Music
The Godfather of soul
James Brown
The most decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles
The first black family sitcom
Good Times
The first black talk show host
Oprah Winfrey
The founding Pastor of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.
Who is Rev. William Alexander Lawson
Houston native black singer that led one of the best selling female groups of all time and the second most award-winning artist of all time, after Michael Jackson
Beyonce
Rosa Parks
Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross have four kids in a classy neighborhood.
What is Blackish?
The first black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
The year that Wheeler Avenue Baptist was founded
What is 1962?
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Minister of Music
Who is Minister Leon Christopher Lewis?
2nd black astronaut to make a flight into space. He's was a member of Wheeler Avenue BC and has an engineering building named after him at NCA&T SU.
Dr. Ronald E. McNair
A show about an African-American upper class family, living in New York. The patriarch Dr. Huxtable, "Greatest TV Dad" and Lawyer matriarch.
The Cosby Show
First black man to win an Academy Award
Denzel Washington
The WABC Theme for this year's Black History Month
What is the Black Family: A family Reunion?
She is known as the "Queen of Gospel" and Harry Belafonte called her "the single most powerful woman in the U.S.?
Who is Mahalia Jackson?
Famous activist that said "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; Only love can do that"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jada Pinkett got her start on this sitcom
A Different World
First female self-made millionaire in America
Madame C. J. Walker
Pastor Cosby's home church, address, and Pastor
What is Emmanuel Baptist Church, 8301 South Damen Ave. 60620, Rev. Dr. L.K. Curry?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what black singer is the most award winning female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
One of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, which celebrated black life and culture.
Langston Hughes
A street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his wealthy aunt and uncle in their Bel Air mansion after getting into trouble
What is the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
The first black mayor of Houston, TX
Lee P. Brown
The WABC Logo represents
What is the triune nature of God—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?