Black History
What is the NAACP?
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
My Uncle was the Songwriter for what famous Funk Artist
Which movie almost didn't get their Academy Award for Best Picture due to a "misreading"
Moonlight
What is a "Jive Turkey"
a hip, streetwise character who speaks entirely in "slang"
Where was The 1963 March on Washington held
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
What did Lewis Latimer invent?
The Carbon Light Bulb Filament
The light bulb itself was perfected by Thomas Edison, but the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from Latimer
Name the band who made this song
What poem inspired the play "A Raisin in the Sun"?
Harlem by Langston Hughes
What is the name of the trope where a black character holds special powers or insight and solely devotes themselves to selflessly helping the white character and has no agency?
The Magical Negro
Which school had the first desegregated class after the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court ruling?
Little Rock Central High School
Which actress made history this year on MLK Day by being the first Black Woman in 42 years to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress?
Quinta Brunson-Abbott Elementary
The name of this famous Black trumpeter who served as “musical ambassador” for the U.S. State Department.
Louis Armstrong
Each player name 2 Black Characters from ANY Superhero related media, However you can't name the following characters
Aqualad, Black Lighting, Black Panther ,Cyborg, John Stewart, Miles Morales, Nick Fury, Static Shock, and Storm
Possible Answers could've included:
A-train, Amanda Waller, America Chavez, Any Black (racially) Power Rangers, Blade, Bishop(X-Men),Bumblebee, Falcon, Mister Terrific, Monica Rambeau (Photon),Nubia ,Prodigy, Riri Williams (Iron Heart),War Machine, Spawn, Luke Cage, Mothers Milk(The Boys)
We're all writers here! So we know the importance of physical descriptions! Is using terms like mocha, chocolate, caramel and tan/tanned alright when describing characters with darker complexions?
No! When describing Black or Brown characters you should never use food items to refer to skin color nor should you call a character tan or tanned since the term "tan" is too broad and doesn't give a sense of shade (I've heard someone call a person with blech white skin tanned once)
Instead, you should use colors like russet, tawny, ochre, or umber. Different types of wood, gemstones, or metals could also be used.
What state elected the first Black Senator?
Mississippi
Hiram R. Revels became the first Black Senator in 1870
What is the name of the law that would prohibit discrimination based on hair style and hair texture
The CROWN Act
Who is credited as starting Punk Rock?
Don Letts, He brought the Reggae sound to the underground punk scene in London, creating Punk Rock
What is the name of the Black musical variety television show filmed in Chicago from 1970 to 2006?
Soul Train
What does "The Yardies" stereotype refer to?
Black gangsters in Britain.
What was the first incorporated Black town in America?
Eatonville, Florida
What year did Samuel L. Gravely Jr. become the First Black Navy Captain.
1967
This Black Singers tour gave a $4.5 billion boost the US economy.
Beyoncé
Movies like Django Unchained, Super Fly, Black Dynamite, and Detroit 9000 are from what genre?
Blaxploitation, An ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. After the demand of the Black Panthers for black artists to reclaim the power and rights to their image from UCLA, the new rating system within Hollywood allowed up-and-coming black film makers and actors to create black films for black audiences.
What is the Sapphire trope?
defines Black women as argumentative, overbearing, and emasculating in their relationships with men, particularly Black men this trope was used to contrast the loud and "uncivilized" Black woman against the white woman, who was considered more respectable, quiet, and morally behaved
Each Player name a country where Black Americans typically taken/descended from. No two players can say the same country. Each player who guesses a correct country will get the points.
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Guinea ,Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo