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This world famous basketball player "revolutionized the signature shoe market" when he started his sneaker line in the 1980s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Black Panther 2 opened with a celebration of life of Black Panther, whose actor with this name died in real life from cancer.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the oldest grassroots-based civil rights organization. The acronym NAACP stands for this.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This agricultural scientist and inventor developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This female solo artist has the record for the most Grammy wins totaling 35.
Who is Beyonce?
This young woman is the most decorated gymnast ever with 41 combined World and Olympic medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
This TV show with a title that shares the name with a famous US city is acclaimed for its innovative storytelling, blending humor, drama, and surrealism. It won many awards including a Golden Globe for best comedy series. Donald Glover has won for best lead actor and director.
What is Atlanta?
This South African was an anti-apartheid activist and former president who helped to bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This man became the Hayden Planetarium’s youngest director but is perhaps more well known for his Podcast StarTalk and hosting the newest version of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
The acronym BET stands for these three words. This popular station among Black Americans also hosts an annual award show.
What is Black Entertainment Television?
This 25 year old sprinter from Dallas, Texas won a gold and silver medal during her debut at the Olympics in 2024.
Who is Sha'Carri Richardson?
This television producer and screenwriter has famously produced Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and Bridgerton.
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
Name one of these 3 cofounders of the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Elbert Howard?
This Black woman who pioneered central heating in 1919 shares her first name with a young girl lost in Wonderland and her last name with Spiderman.
Who is Alice Parker?
Kendrick Lamar dropped an entire album for this blockbuster film.
What is Black Panther?
This woman is the lesser know sister to Serena but a tennis champion in her own right having won 4 gold Olympic Medals and been ranked 3 times as the Women's Tennis Association world no 1.
Who is Venus Williams?
The title of this 1989 Spike Lee joint, that is set in Brooklyn NY, highlights the ethical choices that the characters face as tensions rise between Italian and African Americans.
What is Do The Right Thing?
This woman is an American political activist, professor, and author who was an active member in the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party.
Who is Angela Davis?
This American engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Mae Carol Jemison?
This solo artist who famously sang and played the electric guitar (Fender Stratocasters) is also well known for playing Woodstock 1969.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This man was an activist, conscientious objector refusing to be drafted to the Vietnam War, and is broadly considered the GOAT of boxing.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
These names are how Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air character referred to his aunt and uncle.
Who are Aunt Vivian and Uncle Phil?
This Black woman was a leader in the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. She advocated for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, those effected by H.I.V. and AIDS, and gay and transgender rights. She is famous for being on the frontlines during the resistance at The Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
This woman is best known for her major contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers. She was recently recognized and featured in the movie Hidden Figures, played by Taraji P. Henson.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This American record producer, composer, arranger, record executive, conductor, trumpeter, film and television producer and bandleader received 28 grammys for doing everything from conducting orchestras for Sinatra to producing Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Who is Quincy Jones?