He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Who is Richard Allen?
100
This 1991 film written and directed by John Singleton and starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Larry Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Bassett, depicts life in the South Central Los Angeles.
What is Boyz n the Hood?
100
In 1911, Ernest E. Just, Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, and Frank Coleman, founded this fraternity on the campus of Howard University.
What is Omega Psi Phi?
100
This person 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?
100
This athlete is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game or average more than 40 and 50 points in a season.
Who is Wilt Chamberlin?
200
This person co-discovered the North Pole.
Who is Matthew Hinson?
200
This 1989 film starring Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, and Della Reese Pryor is about a father and son team who runs a nightclub in the late-1930s while contending with gangsters and corrupt police officials.
What is Harlem Nights?
200
This person served as the chair of the Black Studies department from 1972 to 1986 and the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate at The Ohio State University.
Who is William E. Nelson, Jr.?
200
This jazz vocalist is often referred to as the “First Lady of Song” and the "Queen of Jazz," for her “horn-like” improvisational ability.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
200
This athlete is the only man to ever be an All-Star in two major American sports - baseball and football
Who is Bo Jackson?
300
This person was the first to die in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
This 1972 biographical drama starring Billy Dee Williams and Diana Ross is about jazz singer Billie Holiday and is based on her 1956 autobiography which highlights Holiday's most popular songs.
What is Lady Sings the Blues?
300
This person is often referred to as the "Queen Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," because of her work to enable blacks to have the right to become principals and to increase literacy among African Americans.
Who is Septima Clark?
300
This composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras had a career that spanned over 50 years and is widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz for his appearances at the Cotton Club and across the globe.
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
This three-time, WNBA MVP and four-time Olympic gold medal winner was the first woman to dunk a basketball during a professional game.
Who is Lisa Leslie?
400
This person founded the city of Chicago.
Who is Jean Baptiste DuSable?
400
This 2006 biographical film focuses on the ups and downs of a salesman’s nearly one-year struggle with homelessness, who invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays.
What is the Pursuit of Happyness?
400
This person is a well-known civil rights activist who urged President Eisenhower to desegregate schools and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
Who is Dorothy Height?
400
This 1960s singer is recognized as the Queen of Soul for achieving commercial acclaim and success with songs such as Respect, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman and Think.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
400
This athlete played thirteen basketball seasons in the NBA, winning a championship in eleven of them.
Who is Bill Russell?
500
This person is the author of the Three Musketeers.
Who is Alexander Dumas?
500
This 1943 film based on a Broadway musical starring Ethel Waters and Lena Horne tells the story of Little Joe, a man killed over gambling debts, who is restored to life by angelic powers and given six months to redeem his soul and become worthy of entering Heaven.
What is Cabin in the Sky?
500
This person is the author of Coming of Age, a book of research on young black men and creator of The National Rites of Passage Institute.
Who is Paul Hill?
500
This Jamaican-born musician is credited with originating hip hop music in the early 1970s in The Bronx, New York City.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
500
Known as the Fastest Man on Earth, this athlete stands alongside Jim Thorpe as the only other man to win Olympic gold and be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.