Athletes
This athlete received the Muhammed Ali Legacy award in 2017 after taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality?
Colin Kapernick
She was awarded the National Teacher of the Year and uses a youth’s voice in literature to share the experiences of being black in America.
Sharon Draper
He has been apart of leading the Black Lives Matter movement in Chicago, recently ran for Mayor but lost.
Jamal Green
What singer nicknamed Lady Day by Duke Ellington went over to Paris after the government banned them from singing the song Strange Fruit ?
Billie Holiday
This actor went to Howard University to study directing. Has won a Golden Globe award and Critics Choice Movie award. He is best known for his role as the Black Panther.
Chadwick Boseman
What olympian won gold at the 1936 olympics and was snubbed by the US sitting president at the time by not inviting him to the White House which is customary for olympians?
Jesse Owens
Her poetry has been motivating the Civil Rights Movement since the 1960’s and is the 1st Black Woman featured on the US quarter.
Maya Angelou
This Kennedy Honors award winning choreographer created a successful and safe space for black dancers for 50 years.
Alvin Ailey
Her mantra young, gifted and black not only reigned true for people of the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, but throughout the Civil Rights Movement protests.
Nina Simone
He has multiple Golden Globes, Academy awards, NAACP awards for movies like Training Day, Glory, Malcolm X, Fences and more. Named one of the greatest actors of all time, who is he?
Denzel Washington
What olympian started the Yetunde Price Resource center to help those affected by trauma?
Serena Williams
Who is this scandalous Chicago woman screenwriter who has Americans glued to their televisions for medical procedures with one of the longest runs in tv history and parties in England.
Shonda Rhimes
This organization was created by the first black principal dancer in the New York City Ballet at the height of the civil rights movement ?
Dance Theatre of Harlem
He is a young trumpeter who played from Chicago downtown to Motown; and for the past 70 years has transcended all genres of music, television, film, and American culture.
Quincy Jones
born 1930 in Harlem, New York, is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher and lecturer. She received her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York in 1955 and 1959. Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California in San Diego, and has received 23 Honorary Doctorates.
Faith Ringgold
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.” -the greatest
Muhammed Ali
This author’s playwrights and books earned a Pulitzer, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Nobel Peace Prize, if that wasn’t enough in 1998 she teamed up with Oprah to make a film adaption of Beloved.
Toni Morrison
A Howard University alum that has dominated dance on Broadway, television, and film with countless Golden Globe and Emmys for over fifty years. Famous quote: “You got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying.”
Debbie Allen
His sweet keys have awarded him Grammys, Emmys, Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT) in only 44 years of life he pretty much has the Valentines anthem “All of me”.
John Ledgend
What costume designer has over 40 films under their belt, won an Oscar and is an Alpha Kappa Alpha?
Ruthie Carter
is a French-born retired competitive figure skater. She is a three-time World silver medalist. the only Olympic figure skater to land a backflip on one blade; she performed it at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Surya Bonaly
A prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance, this poet’s works swept up black people’s pain, intellect, struggle, love, and grace for others into ribbons of words.
Langston Hughes
Today’s question will be worth two points so listen carefully. She went to Dartmouth and graduated in 1974 as the only African American in her class. She was the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Vice president of the Executive Council, and almost ran for Mayor in 2015 until she became ill, who is she?
Karen Lewis
Born in Houston, She starred as Etta James in Cadillac records, artists like Prince, Aretha Franklin, and more says she’ll be one of the greatest performers of all time and it seems like she is headed that way with a total of 32 grammys making her the most awarded ever. Who is she?
Beyonce
Born in the Jim Crow Era in North Carolina, nicknamed June. This person had two major careers. One in football drafted in 1959 to the Baltimore Colts then later in life becoming an artists best known for the album Cover for Marvin Gayes I Want You which was featured at the end of an episode of Good times.
Ernie Barnes