Television
Dwayne Wayne ended up marrying this southern belle on A Different World.
Who is Whitley Gilbert?
This native of Baltimore lead the NAACP Legal Defense Fund before becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The drummer of The Roots, Ahmir Thompson goes by this name professionally.
What is Questlove?
Two of these author's best-selling novels, Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, were made into films.
Who is Terry McMillan?
This native of Baltimore was the first Black man to build a billion-dollar company and has a museum named for him.
Who is Reginald Lewis?
Sonequa Martin-Green played Michael Burnham on this series set in space.
What is Star Trek: Discovery?
This astronaut was the first black woman to go into space in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
She is the first female solo rapper to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Who is Roxanne Shante?
This author of Kindred, was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Who was Octavia Butler?
This Maryland city was the first to desegregate schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
What is Baltimore?
The name of Janet Jackson's character on Good Times.
Who is Penny?
He became the first African-American billionaire when he sold Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 2001.
Who is Robert Johnson?
She won the first and only Grammy for Best Disco Recording with her hit, "I Will Survive".
Who is Gloria Gaynor?
This author was the first writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for consecutive books, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys.
Who is Colson Whitehead?
This university started in a church in Baltimore serving free slaves and later moved to a site in Prince George's County.
What is Bowie State University?
This show starring Avery Brooks was a spin-off of Spencer for Hire.
What is A Man Called Hawk?
This openly gay Black man organized the March on Washington in 1963.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
Isaac Hayes recorded his Oscar winning song "Theme from Shaft" on this record label based in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is Stax Records?
The three books in her Broken Earth series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years.
Who is N.K. Jemisin?
This town was founded in 1893 by Charles Remond Douglass and his wife, Laura as a summer retreat for affluent African-Americans.
What is Highland Beach?
The first person of African descent to have their own television show in America.
Who was Hazel Scott?
He was the first African-American mayor of Detroit, serving from 1974-1994.
Who is Coleman Young?
Before his stellar career as a country music singer, he played baseball for several years in the Negro Leagues.
Who is Charley Pride?
She served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and was the second African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Who is Rita Dove?
This was the first incorporated African-American town in Prince George's County in 1924.
What is North Brentwood?