Jams Black People Made
This singer of Doo-Wop (That Thing) is the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year (1999)
Lauryn Hill
This American Baptist minister and activist became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In his directorial debut, Jordan Peele wrote and directed this 2017 American horror film
Get Out
This man is the inventor of the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that included the yellow light
Garrett Morgan
This NFL Rookie wide receiver was selected by the Buccaneers in a 5th round draft pick in 2020
Tyler Johnson
This popular rap artist’s real name is Dominique Jones
Lil Baby
He is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is is an American politician and attorney who will serve as the 46th vice president of the United States.
Barack Obama
and
Kamala Harris
James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power
Ghost
In the Stevie Wonder song "Black Man," the Motown marvel sings a lyric of a Black man making the first clock. Name the Black man Stevie mentions
Benjamin Banneker
In 2021, a blockbuster trade took place when this NBA three-time scoring champion was traded from the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets
James Harden
This song is the official #1 song in the Top 40 of 2020
Song: Blinding Lights
Artist: The Weekend
This African American cultural movement flourished in the 1920s with Harlem as its symbolic capital.
The Harlem Renaissance
Two classes rapper/actor Tupac Shakur took as a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts
Ballet and poetry
She created specialized hair products for African American hair care and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire
Madam C.J. Walker
He hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times
Barry Bonds
This is the earliest form of Black musical expression in America
Spirituals
In February 1926, this man sent out a press release announcing the first Negro History Week. Negro History Week was later named Black History Month in 1976.
Carter G. Woodson
This movie starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, tells the 12-hour experience of two LAPD narcotics officers over in the neighborhoods South Central Los Angeles.
Training Day
This agricultural scientist and inventor developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed).
George Washington Carver
After being introduced to gymnastics "by way of the cartwheel" as a child, she went on to be the first woman of color and the first Black gymnast in Olympic history to be the Individual All-Around Champion
Gabby Douglas
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
'Til earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Actress Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. Katherine Johnson is most known for this
Her calculations helped NASA’s space program and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space.
This movie stars Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, a new graduate of Harvard Law School, who heads to Alabama to defend Walter McMillan, a man who is sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence
Just Mercy
This American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990, which since has been among the world's best selling toys
Lonnie Johnson
These two historically black colleges played in the first college football game between black schools in 1892
Biddle University
vs
Livingstone College