Print culture
Magazine that first published the photographs of Emmett Till
What is Jet magazine?
Archetype of matriarchal figure
Who is "mammy"?
First Black sitcom
Amos and Andy
Genre of 1970s films that featured Black (often male) protagonists as (anti)-heroes in urban settings.
What is 'blaxploitation'?
Fusion of R&B melody and hip hop beats and technology
What is New Jack Swing
Name three publications from Johnson Publishing Company.
What are Jet, Ebony, Hue, Negro Digest, Tan, Black World?
Original name of Pearl Milling Company Pancake Mix named after minstrel song.
Who is Aunt Jemima?
Sitcom to first portray a Black family
What is Good Times?
What does B.E.T stand for?
What is Black Entertainment Television?
Popular form of early photography used by Fredrick Douglas and Sojourner Truth.
What is the daguerreotype?
Famous minstrel figure that also names a practice of segregation
Who is 'Jim Crow'?
Name three Black sitcoms
What are Julia, Amos and Andy, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Beulah...?
Film that garnered Sidney Poitier an Oscar.
What is Lilies of the Field?
Kanye West samples this 1980s artist in his song "Through the Wire".
Who is Chaka Khan?
I well my _______ to support the ______.
What is "shadow" and "substance"?
First Black person to win an academy award for best lead actor or actress?
Who is Sidney Poitier? OR Who is Halle Berry?
1968 television show staring Diahann Carroll
What is Julia?
Rap group whose song appears in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
Who is Public Enemy?
Producer responsible for Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller.
Who is Quincy Jones?
Cartoonist who popularized figures like Patty Jo
Who is Jackie Ormes?
"Father of Minstrelsy"
Who is Thomas Dartmouth Rice?
Original name of Amos and Andy radio show
Sam and Henry
1979 musical by Motown starring artists Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
What is The Wiz?
Singing group that originally included Bobby Brown.
Who is New Edition?