Historical Firsts
What year did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers?
What was 1947?
Who was the first Black country artist to win a Grammy?
Who is Beyoncé, 2025
I'm searchin' for a real love
Someone to set my heart free
Real love
I'm searchin' for a real love
Who is Mary J. Blige?
"Real Love" (1992)
See, Daddy? Sinners have souls, too.
The Color Purple
(1985)
According to the United Nations and the African Union, there are how many countries in Africa.
54 countries
In what year was Black History Month first recognized by the president?
1976 by President Gerald Ford
Who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself 'an incurable optimist'.
Ralph Bunche
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
Who is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five? "The Message" 1982
When you think of garbage, think of Akeem!
Coming to America
(1988)
What country, in South America, was the center of the slave trade, and the capital first slave market in the New World.
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Who was the first black billionaire?
Who is Robert Johnson, owner of Black Entertainment Television?
Who was the first African-American actor to win an Oscar for his role in Lilies of the Field?
Who is Sidney Poitier, in 1964?
Hunnid bands, hunnid bands, hunnid bands
Contraband, contraband, contraband
I got the plug on Oaxaca
They gonna find you like blocka
Who is Childish Gambino?"
"This is America" (2018)
Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's goin' on in the hood
Boyz N The Hood
(1991)
Name one of the three countries that were the last point of passage before enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Ghana, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
Who was the first black woman in space?
Mae C Jemison in 1992
Who was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, the winner of several lifetime achievement awards, and a holder of more than fifty honorary degrees?
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
We gotta make a change
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes
Let's change the way we eat
Let's change the way we live
And let's change the way we treat each other
Who is Tupac Shakur?
"Changes" 1998
You must purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka
Purple Rain
(1984)
What country was once the largest exporter of conflict diamonds?
What is Sierra Leone?
Once considered the largest exporter of conflict diamonds, primarily due to the brutal civil war waged by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) which heavily relied on diamond trade to fund their operations.
Who was the first black Police Officer in New York City?
Samuel Jesse Battle
He joined the force in 1911, becoming the force's first black sergeant (in 1926), lieutenant (1935), and parole commissioner (in 1941).
Who was an American actress and singer who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939)?
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Dot, fuck 'em up
Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, I'ma do my stuff
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
"Not Like Us" (2024)
The only thing I like integrated is my coffee
Malcolm X
(1992)
Which African country was never colonized?
What is Ethiopia?