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What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry?
Rap
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine?
Billy Eckstine
A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped of his first championship title because he refused to fight in the Vietnam War?
Muhammad Ali
This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career as a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Who is she?
Halle Berry
What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s?
Jazz
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom‟s Journal
Who became the first Black player to quarterback a Super Bowl team to victory?
Doug Williams
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
After over forty years, who became the second black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Denzel Washington
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States ?
Philadelphia Tribune
What is basketball star Michael Jordan‟s nickname?
Air Jordan
James Todd Smith is the given name of what rapper/actor?
LL Cool J
What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
Marian Anderson
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970?
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
Who was the first Black American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Jackie Robinson
What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016?
Soul Train
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
What is Milano Di Rouge owner's name?
Milan Harris
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
Ebony
What Black American lit the Olympic torch at the 1984 Summer Games?
Rafer Johnson
Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wiz?
Michael Jackson