Black Joy & Black Survival
This card game is less about the cards themselves and more about trust, intuition, partnership, and reading people.
What is Spades?
This 1972 presidential candidate became the first Black woman to seek the nomination for president from a major U.S. party.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Before Friends, this sitcom centered four Black professionals sharing life, love, and a Brooklyn brownstone.
What is Living Single?
This phrase means to correctly identify what is really happening beneath the surface.
What is clock it?
This artist became the first Black woman to headline Coachella, later turning the performance into Homecoming.
Who is Beyoncé?
This long-standing Black survival practice describes informal systems of care, sharing, and making a way out of no way.
What is mutual aid?
This organizer, often called the “mother of the movement,” pushed SNCC toward grassroots leadership rather than charismatic top-down leadership.
Who is Ella Baker?
This A Different World character’s journey from spoiled freshman to politically conscious student helped define the show’s cultural legacy.
Who is Whitley Gilbert?
This phrase means to back up your words with action and remain firm under pressure.
What is stand on business?
This athlete from Compton changed tennis forever while building a legacy of dominance, style, and cultural influence.
Who is Serena Williams?
This migration of Black people out of the South reshaped politics, labor, housing, music, and urban life in the United States.
What is the Great Migration?
This phrase, popularized by Kwame Ture, shifted the language of civil rights toward self-determination and political autonomy.
What is Black Power?
This 1997 film starring Larenz Tate and Nia Long is remembered not just as a love story, but as a meditation on Black art, softness, and intimacy.
What is Love Jones?
This phrase, popular across Black internet culture, is used when someone delivers with precision, excellence, or force.
What is they ate?
This rapper became the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This phrase captures the way Black people often use humor not to deny pain, but to survive it.
What is laughing to keep from crying?
This Black feminist collective issued a 1977 statement that became foundational to Black feminist and identity-based political analysis.
What is the Combahee River Collective?
This creator and star of Abbott Elementary became the first Black woman in decades to win the Emmy for comedy writing.
Who is Quinta Brunson?
This phrase describes a lifestyle aspiration rooted in ease, pleasure, rest, and release from constant struggle.
What is soft life?
This vice president became the first Black woman and first South Asian person to hold the office.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This Black family function was deeper than a typical Sunday cookout and included multiple generations within one family
What is a family reunion
This term describes the interconnected systems of oppression—race, gender, class—that must be understood together to fully address inequality.
What is intersectionality?
This 1996 film about four women who turn to bank robbery is often remembered as a story not just about crime, but about economic desperation, friendship, and survival.
What is Set It Off?
This is what happens when Black-created language, style, or trends go viral and are adopted widely without credit or context.
What is cultural appropriation?
This writer became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?