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This variety/sketch show launched the careers of Wayans family members in the early 90s on Fox.
What is "In Living Color"?
When you talked back or rolled your eyes, this phrase warned you that a physical response was imminent.
What is "Don't make me get up"? (Accept: "Keep testing me")
This scholar and sociologist co-founded the NAACP and wrote "The Souls of Black Folk."
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1970s musical/film subgenre, exemplified by "Shaft" and "Super Fly," featured Black lead characters and funk soundtracks.
What is blaxploitation?
This word, meaning "the truth" or something genuine, comes from a shortened phrase of certainty.
What is "fasho" ("for sure")?
This sitcom starred Flip Wilson and made him the first Black man to host a successful weekly variety show, running 1970-1974.
What is "The Flip Wilson Show"?
This phrase was the response to "everybody else is doing it," reminding you that other households' rules don't apply here.
What is "I don't care what everybody else is doing"?
This activist, assassinated in 1965, changed his name after his Hajj pilgrimage and rejected "X" as his surname before his death.
Who is Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)?
This magazine, founded by John H. Johnson in 1951, was a pocket-sized weekly focused on Black entertainment and society news.
What is Jet magazine?
This word for money, common in older Black vernacular, refers to paper currency by a term also meaning "bread."
What is "bread" (or "cheese," "cheddar")?
This 1974-1979 sitcom, a spinoff of "All in the Family," followed the Jeffersons "movin' on up" to the East Side.
What is "The Jeffersons"?
This is what was what you worked on when you annoyed your parents, also what you got on
What is "My last Nerve"
This educator founded a school for Black girls in Florida in 1904 that became Bethune-Cookman University.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This magazine, also founded by John H. Johnson (in 1945), became the largest-circulation Black-owned magazine in the world.
What is Ebony?
This term for a subtle, indirect insult — delivered with style rather than a direct attack — originated in 1980s NYC ballroom culture and was popularized nationally by the 1990 documentary "Paris Is Burning."
What is "throwing shade"?
This 1968 sitcom made Diahann Carroll the first Black woman to headline a TV series playing someone other than a domestic servant.
What is "Julia"?
What do black parents threaten to "Slap" if their child isn't acting right
What is "All the color off a you"
This mathematician's calculations at NASA were critical to John Glenn's orbital mission, later depicted in "Hidden Figures."
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 1972 benefit concert at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, organized by Stax Records to mark the anniversary of the Watts Uprising, drew over 100,000 people and became known as "Black Woodstock."
What is Wattstax?
This phrase, also from ballroom culture and featured in "Paris Is Burning," describes the art of pointedly (and often humorously) exposing someone's flaws to their face.
What does it mean to "read" someone (or "read someone for filth")?
This 1951-1953 sitcom, adapted from the radio show, was cancelled after the NAACP protested its racial stereotyping.
What is "Amos 'n' Andy"?
This phrase, often said with a raised eyebrow and a slow head turn, was the final warning before real consequences — no words needed after it.
What is "Boy/Girl"
This inventor patented over 45 devices and improved the traffic signal and gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This network of Black-owned performance venues, including the Apollo Theater and Royal Peacock, gave Black musicians and comedians safe places to perform during segregation — its name comes from a soul food dish.
What is the Chitlin' Circuit?
This is What the "N-Word" is short for
Points to whoever actually said it