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At 6,650 km (4,130 mi), this is the longest river in Africa, with a drainage basin covering eleven countries on the continent.
What is the Nile River?
100
She is the first woman, first Black, and first Asian (her mother is Indian) Vice President of the United States.
Who is Vice President Kamala Harris?
100
This Jamaican-born sprinter holds the world records for both the 100- and 200-meter in track and field.
Who is Usain Bolt?
100
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bill making this day celebrating the abolition of slavery in America a federal holiday.
(Note: President Abraham Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1883, declaring all enslaved people in America were free. Texas didn't declare it until 1865. They were wildin'.)
What is Juneteenth?
200
This region of the African continent is where most of the enslaved people brought to the West Indies originated from.
What is west Africa?
200
From a student leader during the turbulent Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the elected Representative of Georgia's 5th congressional district in the US House, this late freedom fighter lived as he professed: "...Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble".
Who is Representative John Lewis?
200
This 3-time Super Bowl champion quarterback recently signed a $210.6 million guaranteed contract for the 2023-2026 NFL seasons, the highest ever offered an NFL player in a four-year span!
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
200
This civil rights organization founded to advance justice for Black Americans was formed in 1909 by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
300
This was where South African activist Nelson "Madiba" Mandela spent 18 of his 27-year imprisonment for his fight to end apartheid.
What is Robben Island?
300
On August 28, 1955, her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered by two White men in Money, Mississippi, who alleged he “wolf-whistled” at one of their wives.
Who is Mamie Till (Mobley)?
300
She is the pioneering actress who was the first Black person to win an Oscar, when she took home the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role as Mammy, in Gone with the Wind.
Who is Ms. Hattie McDaniel?
300
ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2024! In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act into law to end blatant discrimination against Black voter registration. By the end of the year, 250,000 new Black voters were registered!
What is the Voting Rights Act?
400
From the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave-trading port was on the island of Gorée, which lies off the coast of this west-African country.
What is Senegal?
400
She was a civil rights activist from Mississippi who fought for voting rights and women's rights. She also played a pivotal role in organizing the 1964 "Freedom Summer" campaign to register large numbers of Black people to vote.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
400
She is the multitalented icon who became the first Black person to earn the exclusive "EGOT" status, in 2002.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
400
What we now proudly know as "Black History Month", was established as this, by Carter G. Woodson, in 1926.
What is Negro History Week?
500
This 14th century ruler of the Mali Empire is believed by historians to be the richest person of all time, with wealth in gold that is still unquantifiable.
Who is King Mansa Musa?
500
She is the 15-year-old teen who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a White passenger, on March 2, 1955--nine months before Rosa Parks' infamous incident.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
500
A trailblazing comedian and innovator of edgy standup, he won the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, in 1998.
Who is Richard Pryor?
500
The three consecutive landmark Amendments to the U.S. Constitution which impacted the Black American experience:
1865: abolished slavery in the United States
1868: extended U.S. citizenship to all natural-born residents and guaranteed due process to all U.S. citizens
1870: guaranteed voting rights to all male U.S. citizens
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?