Slavery
Slaves. used this as a communication system
What is music
Graduating in 2000 from the former Woodrow Wilson High School, he coordinated the Jay Z and Beyonce concert in Cleveland in 2018 and has been the touring music director for Beyonce since 2012.
Who is Derek Dixie?
This human rights activists began his powerful career as a strong voice against white racism with his militant demand for racial justice.
Who is Malcolm X?
This film is about an urban legend of the boogeyman.
What is Candyman?
This female rapper was the first woman to land three number-one songs on Billboard's streaming charts in a single year.
Who is Megan Thee Stallion?
This escaped slave taught himself to read and write and published three autobiographies
Who is Fredrick Douglas
She was the first African American women elected to Youngstown Municipal Court.
Who is Judge Carla J. Baldwin?
This was the act of occupying seats in a racially segregated establishment in organized protests against discrimination.
What are sit-ins?
In this movie Della Reese says, "You shot me in my pinky toe!"
What is Harlem Nights?
This city is widely known as the birthplace of hip hop.
What is the Bronx or New York City?
Araminta Ross is the real name of the famous abolitionist.
Who is Harriet Tubman
A graduate of Ursuline High School, she was featured in Essence Magazine for "29 Powerful Black Women Calling the Shots in the Obama Administration" and was senior policy advisor in the White House.
Who is Ashley Allison
On March 7, 1965m state and local police used Billy clubs, whips and tear gas to attack 600 civil rights activists beginning a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery.
What is Bloody Sunday?
Groundbreaking director Spike Lee has dealt with issues in the African American community in this film.
What is do the right thing?
In this chorus of their song scrub, TLC said a scrub is …
Who is "a guy that can't get no love from me?"
This was the region in Africa that most slaves came from.
What is West Africa
Raised on the East Side of Youngstown, he was the first black Mayor of Youngstown and went on to serve in the Obama administration as an Auto Czar.
Who is Jay Williams?
This civil rights activist was a key organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott and a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Ralph Abernathy?
Jennifer Hudson's character Effie was kicked out of the group in this movie.
What is Dream Girls?
This rap was the only group to ever record and collaborate with both Biggie and Tupac.
Who is Bone Thugs & Harmony?
Daily Double
This president owned the largest number slaves, more than 600 over the course of his life.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A graduate of Cardinal Mooney who played for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and San Francisco 49ers and who is currently the associate head coach for the University of Kentucky.
Who is Vince Marrow?
In 1954 this landmark Supreme Court case the justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka
Jada Pinkett-Smith and Queen Latifa are partners for life in this movie.
What is Set It Off?
This hip hop group received a warning letter from the FBI and called themselves "the world's most dangerous group."
Who is NWA?