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Shows that sparked #TGIT on X (formerly Twitter).
What is Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder?
Holds the record for most Grammy's won in lifetime.
Who is Beyoncé?
Name three Black sitcoms
What are Julia, Amos and Andy, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Beulah...?
Director of Sweet Sweetback's Badaasssss Song (1971)
Melvin Van Peebles
This is a subset of rap music popularized by rapper T.I.?
What is 'trap' music?
Name three publications from Johnson Publishing Company
Hue, Jet, and Ebony
Minstrel character that becomes the 'face' of Pearl Milling Company?
Who is Aunt Jemima?
Name the first sitcom to depict a Black two parent household
Good Times (1974-1979)
Name at least three works by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled, School Daze, Malcolm X...
Name the style of music popularized by producers Teddy Riley and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis?
New Jack Swing
Most photographed man of the nineteenth century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Famous minstrel figure that also names a practice of segregation
Who is 'Jim Crow'?
"Sitcom" derives from these two words.
What is situation comedy?
First Black person to win an academy award for best lead actor or actress?
Who is Sidney Poitier? OR Who is Halle Berry?
Song Michael Jackson debuted on MTV.
Hint: Served as a backing track for Pepsi commercial
Billie Jean
I well my _______ to support the ______.
What is "shadow" and "substance"?
Young Black Urban Professional
Creator of sitcoms Good Times, The Jeffersons, All in the Family
Norman Lear
Rap group whose song appears in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
Who is Public Enemy?
2016 album by artist Solange Knowles
What is A Seat at the Table?
Who is Jackie Ormes?
a safe way to respond to racism that comes in a post-racial guise because it does not appear to upend the space...to play with fire, to appropriate something that is used against you and make it work for you.
What is strategic ambiguity?
Television show that featured Diahann Carroll as a widowed nurse.
Julia
Name a Motown film.
What is The Wiz, Mahogany, Lady Sings the Blues, or Last Dragon?
A Nelly Music video which aired on BET UnCut prompted Moya Bailey to create this term?
What is misogynoir?