BSAY HISTORY
Black@Yale
Black Bulldogs
Black Pop Culture
Political Thought
100
This is the original pronunciation of the Black Student Alliance at Yale.
What is B- S- A- Y ?
100
This Black woman has been the Dean of the Afro American Cultural Center since Summer 2015.
Who is Dean Risë Nelson?
100
This Kenyan Actress, Known for her role in a seminal film about slavery in the American South, Graduated from Yale School of Drama in 2012.
Who is Lupita Nyong'o?
100
A cultural identity on a famed social network focused on issues of interest to the Black community, particularly in the United States. Its use of hashtags allows for a collective of active users to bring about a wide range of sociopolitical changes.
What is Black Twitter?
100
__________ said this quote, "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people by the silence over that by the good people."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
_____ was an academic program created through BSAY advocacy.
What is African American Studies? (Afro America, Inc.)
200
______ is a weekly online publication by and for students of color at Yale University committed to building bridges within this larger community as well as informing it.
What is Down Magazine?
200
Yale alumna, Sanaa Lathan, is best for known for her work in this romantic comedy, co-starring with Omar Epps and a basketball.
What is Love and Basketball?
200
Best known for her work as a pop musician, this artist has now broken into the makeup scene, creating a line of products are lightweight and work for all skin tones and types with over 40 shades.
What is Fenty Beauty?
200
Kimbelé Williams Crenshaw coined this term to describe overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
What is Intersectionality?
300
This social event brought hundreds of northeastern Black students to Yale's campus and contributed to the founding of BSAY.
What is Spook Weekend?
300
The first known African American to graduate from Yale College in 1874.
What is Edward Bouchet?
300
This Yale alumna, attorney, and professor rose to national prominence after providing haunting testimony against another Yale alumnus for sexual assault.
Who is Anita Hill?
300
The protagonist of what show is named after the Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton?
What is the Boondocks?
300
"Black feminism is not white feminism in blackface" is a quote from Audre Lorde in this book of essays and speeches.
What is Sister Outsider?
400
These seven men are recognized as the founders of the Black Student Alliance at Yale. (must name at least 4 to get points)
Who is Ralph Dawson, Donald Ogilvie, Armstead Robinson, Glenn deChabert, Woody Brittain, Muhammad Abdullah and Craig Foster?
400
Built on the principles of service, scholarship, solidarity, these three D9 greek organizations have made a comeback in the last couple of years.
What is Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.?
400
This Yale alumnus was very important in the New Haven Black Panther trials in the spring of 1970 while being a Yale football player in the class of 1971. He then left Yale as Rhodes Scholar before continuing to Harvard Law School. He later became the first Black mayor of Baltimore.
Who is Kurt Schmoke?
400
What famous Black musician was born near the nutbush city limits
Who is Tina Turner?
400
"To be Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in rage almost all the time" is a famous quote by this American writer and social critic.
Who is James Baldwin?
500
This was the original group that led to the creation of BSAY.
What is Yale Discussion Group on Negro Affairs?
500
This woman was the first Black woman given tenure at Yale in 1988.
Who is Sylia Boone?
500
This Yale alumna was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law school (1931) and the first in the US to become a judge.
Who is Jane Matilda Bolin?
500
"Come Closer" singer and Drake collaborator Wizkid was born in this West African Country.
What is Nigeria?
500
The term "Talented Tenth", created by Northern philanthropists, was published in an influential essay of this name by W.E.B. DuBois in 1903.
What is "The Talented Tenth"?
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