Music
The artist who rapped this verse in one of his songs: “ last name ever, First name greatest, Like a sprained ankle boy I ain't nothing to play with Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first-name basis"
Drake
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Martin Luther King Jr
The first black female billionaire
Oprah Winfrey
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
This popular show, set in 1970s Chicago, starred a young Janet Jackson.
Good times
The artist who sang this in one of their songs" To the left to the left, everything you own in the box to the left."
Irreplaceable by Beyonce
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
The first African American President of the United States.
Barack Obama
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Name two of the five highest-grossing films of all time featuring a predominantly African American cast
1) Coming to America 2) Bad Boys 2 3) Big mommas house 4) Dreamgirls 5) Bad Boys
In the mid-1960s this festival was born, introducing new audiences to an interactive parade and raising the profile of African/Black/Caribbean foods, arts, culture, music, and dance. It has now grown to become the largest such event in the world, bringing in thousands of people to share in the experience. It is held in the beginning of August in Toronto.
Caribana
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Muhammad Ali
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
This actor has garnered his fame by playing a loud, gun-toting grandmother figure both on stage and on screen
Tyler Perry
his genre of music first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. This genre of music incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues (R&B), jazz, mento, calypso, African, and Latin American music, as well as other genres. Instruments that are typically played in this musical genre include: Bass, drums, guitar, organ, brass instrument, melodica.
Reggae
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
George Washington Carver
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
Where did the Jefferson's move on up to?
a deluxe apartment in the sky
This duo rappers put conscious rap back on the map in the early 2000s and made awareness of HIV/AIDs and education of young black youth a priority. one member was a taxi driver in "Brown Sugar", while the other made the hit "Get By"
Blackstar (Mos Def and Talib Kweli)
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1895
In this movie, Eddie Murphy plays the Prince of Zamunda and he comes to this American city in search of a wife.
Harlem