Mount Holyoke
The first recorded black student to attend Mount Holyoke.
Who was Hortence Parker?
This recent black sitcom won 4 Emmys between the years of 2022 and 2023.
What is Abbot Elementary?
This famous black comedian got slapped during a speech at the Oscars.
Who is Chris Rock?
This US national holiday celebrates the announcement of the executive decree to end slavery.
What is Juneteenth?
This is the most decorated gymnast in history.
Who is Simone Biles?
This student organization was founded in 1980 as a space for Black and Latinx students.
What is the association of Pan-African unity?
The first show to feature an interracial kiss on television.
What is Star Trek?
This black celebrity starred in a long-running sitcom and currently runs a very successful haircare company.
Who is Tracee Ellis Ross?
This country famously gained independence in 1804.
What is Haiti?
This football player famously knelt during the US national anthem and caused a movement.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
The first black woman to run for president on the democratic ticket and subsequently taught in the sociology and anthropology departments.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
"We're moving on up" is a line featured in the theme song of this famous black sitcom.
What is The Jeffersons?
This reality television star recently won Season 8 of Love Island U.S.
Who is Trinity Tatum?
This is the most spoken sub-Saharan African language.
What is swahili?
This was the first Caribbean island to compete in the Winter Olympics.
What is Jamaica?
This well-recognized civil rights leader delivered a sermon in Gettel Amphitheatre approximately 2 months after the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King?
This famous director brought recognition to the black jockey who was featured in the very first moving picture, made in 1878.
Who is Jordan Peele?
This UK singer rose to fame after the release of her hit single, "Escapism".
Who is Raye?
The most recently UN-recognized country.
What is South Sudan?
These two people famously raised the black power fist at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Who are Tommie Smith and John Carlos?
In this year, Woodridge Hall, the first black cultural center, was burned down.
What is 1969?
This film featured Dwayne Jones as the first black horror movie character.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
This French dancer and singer was not only the first black woman to star in a major motion picture but also worked as a spy for the French Resistance.
Who is Josephine Baker?
This group of people famously immigrated from the Caribbean to the UK post world war 2.
Who is the Windrush generation?
First woman to land a backflip in a figure skating competition.
Who is Surya Bonali?