Power Couples
They met at a Chicago law firm where she was assigned to be his mentor.
Who are Barack and Michelle Obama?
Your Nintendo game wouldn’t load, so you did this to the cartridge, which may or may not have actually worked.
What is blowing into it?
Marvin Gaye’s 1982 comeback hit offered this kind of therapy.
What is “Sexual Healing”?
In 1967, he became the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Dr. King served as co-pastor of this Auburn Avenue church alongside his father.
What is Ebenezer Baptist Church?
This actress was married to Ossie Davis for more than five decades, and the two often worked together.
Who is Ruby Dee?
This everyday school supply rewound cassette tapes and saved your Walkman batteries.
What is a pencil?
Ginuwine’s 1996 debut invited the ladies to ride this animal.
What is a pony?
In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
In 1973, he became Atlanta’s first Black mayor.
Who is Maynard Jackson?
Coretta Scott was studying at this Boston music school when she met Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the New England Conservatory of Music?
This velcro-flap binder was the status symbol of the school supply aisle.
What is a Trapper Keeper?
Who is Silk? (“Freak Me”)
In 2002, she became the first Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
Before becoming Atlanta’s mayor, this civil rights leader served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Who is Andrew Young?
Larenz Tate and Nia Long star as a poet and a photographer in this 1997 Chicago love story.
What is Love Jones?
Nickelodeon’s Double Dare made a whole generation want to get covered in this green stuff.
What is slime?
Thanks to his deep, smooth voice, Barry White earned this animal-themed nickname.
What is “The Walrus of Love”?
Her hair care empire made her one of America’s first self-made female millionaires.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
Alonzo Herndon, born into slavery, founded this Atlanta company in 1905.
What is Atlanta Life Insurance Company?
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down state bans on interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
In 1997, millions of kids became neglectful parents to this egg-shaped virtual pet.
What is a Tamagotchi?
Janet Jackson’s 1993 album was promoted with a famously racy Rolling Stone cover and named simply this.
What is janet.?
Daily Double: In 1950, she became the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her poetry collection Annie Allen.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
OutKast’s 2003 double album paired Big Boi’s half with André 3000’s half.
What is Speakerboxxx/The Love Below?