Popular Culture
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
Who is Lauryn Hill?
The first African American to be an editor on the Harvard Law Review and also mentor to Thurgood Marshall.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
He invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
He was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game and was also the first to score 30,000 points in the NBA.
Who is Wilt Chamberlin?
She wrote "Still I Rise," "Phenomenal Woman" and "Touched by An Angel."
Who is Maya Angelou?
What is James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power?
What is Ghost?
Credited as the first African-American to be elected to a public office in the United States.
Who is John Mercer Langston?
He invented the world-famous watergun, the Supersoaker.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
The first Black female gymnast to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Who is Dominique Dawes?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
(Hint - Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye.")
Who is Toni Morrison?
Which popular rap artist’s real name is Nayvadius Wilburn?
Who is Future?
She was the first African-American to perform at the White House, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera.
Who is Marian Anderson?
He received a patent for his invention of the mop.
Who is Stewart Thomas?
This player hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times.
Who is Barry Bonds?
With such books as Dust Tracks on a Road, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing and Mules and Men, she called attention to herself and her blackness during a time when blacks were urged to assimilate to promote better race relations. Her works are seen as manifestos of self-hood and the positive aspects of black life.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie, Hidden Figures, who is known for doing this.
What is using calculations to help the NASA space program?
Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University and become a U.S. senator?
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
After accidentally slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
Who is George Crum?
The first person of color to win a Grand Slam title.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This popular magazine was started by Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth, and Jonathan Blount in 1968 and has a name that means "the intrinsic nature" or "indispensable quality of something."
What is Essence Magazine?
As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper, Tupac Shakur, took which pair of classes:
1) Hip Hop and Poetry
2) Theater and Modern Dance
3) Music Appreciation and Film
4) Ballet and Poetry
What is Ballet and Poetry?
What was the first historically black college in America?
What is Cheyney University?
The idea of a blood bank was started by this person.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
The first female athlete to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Who is Jackie Joyner Kersey?
"This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile." This is an excerpt of what poem by what poet -
What is "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar?