Food
This Jamaican pastry is traditionally filled with seasoned meat inside a flaky, often yellow-colored crust.
What is a Jamaican beef patty?
What is the name of the 1963 demonstration in Washington, D.C., included Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
This Jamaican sprinter holds the men's 100-meter world record of 9.58 seconds, set in 2009.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This poet and author wrote the 1969 autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which recounts her childhood and explores racism, trauma, and resilience.
Who is Maya Angelou
Known as the "Queen of Soul," this singer recorded the hit song "Respect."
Who is Aretha Franklin
This popular West African rice dish is cooked in a seasoned tomato-and-pepper base and is at the center of a rivalry between countries such as Ghana and Nigeria.
What is Jollof Rice
What is the significance of Juneteenth?
To commemorate when the news of the end of slavery finally reached the slaves in Texas.
This basketball player was nicknamed "His Airness."
Who is Michael Jordan
This writer wrote A Mercy, set in 17th-century colonial America, explores slavery, race, and the complex relationships between a European-American farmer and the enslaved and indentured people living on his farm.
Who is Toni Morrison
This gymnast became the first Black woman to win the individual all-around gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2013.
Who is Simone Biles
This Southern staple is made from leafy greens slowly cooked with seasonings and sometimes smoked meat, and is commonly served with cornbread.
What are Collard Greens?
"Winning its independence in 1804, this nation became the first independent Black republic in the Americas."
What is Haiti?
This comedic duo starred in a sketch comedy show on Comedy Central featuring characters like Substitute Teacher and President Obama’s anger translator, Luther.
Who are Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele?
This Black sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and wrote The Souls of Black Folk, which introduced the influential concept of “double consciousness.”
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
This South African anti-apartheid leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming his country's first Black president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandella
Popular in Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean, this bread is typically paired with Curry Goat.
What is Trinidadian Roti
Name the two African Countries that were never formally colonized by European Powers.
Ethiopia and Liberia
To promote an anti-violence message, Michael Jackson cast roughly 80 real members of rival Los Angeles street gangs to dance together in the 1983 music video for this hit song.
What is Beat It?
Without her knowledge or consent, cells taken from this Black woman in 1951 became the first human cell line to reproduce indefinitely in a laboratory.
Henrietta Lacks
This boxing legend refused induction into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War, citing his religious beliefs and opposition to the war. He was stripped of his heavyweight title and banned from boxing for several years.
Who is Muhammad Ali
This Nigerian soup is thickened with ground melon seeds and often cooked with leafy vegetables, meat, or fish. It is commonly eaten with fufu.
What is egusi soup?
Why was the second week of February chosen for "Negro History Week"?
Black communities across the country were already holding annual celebrations on the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, this Black American track-and-field athlete won four gold medals, challenging Adolf Hitler’s claims of Aryan racial superiority.
Jesse Owens
This Black NASA mathematician calculated flight trajectories for early American space missions and was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson
This Black Messiah and Emperor of Ethiopia, crowned in 1930, inspired the name and founding of the Rastafari movement.
Who is Haile Selassie I?