Black Music Artists
This artist has won the most grammy's
Who is Beyonce?
This athlete won 23 grand slams.
Who is Serena Williams?
This actor said "Keep my wife's name out yo f*cking mouth."
Who is Will Smith?
First Black woman to give her seat up on the bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Best known for their works: Beloved, Sula and Song of Solomon.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This genre of music was created post-slavery.
What is the Blues?
This football player took a knee in 2016 to protest police brutality.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
This actress is known for her Oscar-winning role in Fences.
Who is Viola Davis?
They coined the phrase "Black Power."
Who is Stokley Carmicheal?
Gloria Jean Watkins's pen name.
What is bell hooks?
One of the most known producers in the early 2000s.
Who is Pharrell Williams?
This athlete has scored more points and free-throws than any other guard in history.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
They portrayed the first Black baseball player in the movie 42.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
Racism was the main target of their works, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
Who is W.E.B DuBois?
This African-American journalist led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
They were the first Black artist to win a Grammy.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
They are five-time Olympic medalist and the first female African-American to be an all-around world champion.
Who is Simone Biles?
This actress won an Oscar in Best Actress in 1994 and Best Supporting Actress in 2023
Who is Angela Bassett?
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
Who is Angela Davis?
The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky
Who is Maya Angelou?
They were the first Black artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Who is Tommy Edwards?
This was the first Black woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in the high jump competition.
Who is Alice Coachmen?
This Black actor was an usher at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
They believed Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
They work focused on how human sexuality is more fluid and less binary than often expressed in the U.S.
Who James Baldwin?