Music
Destiny's Child
With 28 Grammys, this black artist holds the record for most wins and nominations for a female artist.
Who is Beyoncé?
This is the team Jackie Robinson played for.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
What amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th amendment?
Name one HBCU (historically black college/university).
There are many correct answers!
Name the inspirational gospel singer who performed at President Barak Obama's first presidential inauguration in 2009. This person is also known as the "Queen of Soul".
Aretha Franklin
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
This year (2023) was the first superbowl with two black quarterbacks playing against each other. What were their names?
Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes
On Juneteenth, black citizens of what state were legally freed from slavery which led to the ending of slavery in the US?
Texas
What was the law called that separated black and white people in public areas?
What is Jim Crow/Segregation?
Which hip hop artist has the most number 1 singles?
Drake
In what year (or decade) did Martin Luther King Jr give his "I Have A Dream" speech?
1965
What year did the first African American play in the NFL?
A) 1920
B) 1940
C)1946
A) 1920
In 1920, Fritz Pollard became the first African-American to play in the NFL during its formative years. However, in the years after Fritz's departure, the NFL owners imposed a “gentleman's agreement” preventing the signing of more black players, until the re-integrating of the NFL in 1946.
This person was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
What was the first black show on Disney Channel?
The Proud Family
Who is Onika Maraj-Petty?
Nicki Minaj
Who invented the three-light traffic signal?
What year did the NBA integrate, allowing African Americans in the league?
A)2000
B)1905
C)1950
D)1968
What is 1950.
- Collected over 10,000 items related to black history and the African diaspora
- Founded the Schomburg Center in Harlem
What black revolutionary group was founded in Oakland in 1966 that was known for challenging politicians+police and empowering their communities?
What are the Black Panthers?
Who dropped out of their New Orleans high school to focus on their Hip Hop career, only to become the 5th most commercially successful rapper of all time worldwide?
Lil Wayne
Who founded the Black Panthers?
Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale
This black man is the first athlete who also became a billionaire.
Michael Jordan
100,000
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
President Lincoln's executive order declaring that all Southern slaves were free.