Music
Crowned the “Queen of Soul,” what singer used her reign to bring attention to the civil rights movement and support the fight for Black freedom (and in 1970, even offered to pay the bail for incarcerated Black Panther activist Angela Davis)?
Aretha Franklin
Who is NOT a cast member of Living Single?
answer choices
Regine
Maxine
Hillary
Synclaire
Khadijah
Hillary
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
Name Erica Browns 4 children
Xyjene, xyquavious, eric,
What do the letters for the cable network BET stand for?
Black entertainment television
Which Gladys Knight song's lyrics begin with, "It's sad to think"?
Neither one of us
In what movie is this quote from.
"make the money, dont let the money make you"
Players Club
What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?
Black Panther Party
Aunt Honey long time partner?
Mr lee
Sylvia used to go to blockbuster video everytime we used to come to grandma house. That is now long gone. What store has replaced blockbuster?
Aarons furniture store
Name the gospel singers famously who did not record secular music.
Aretha franklin
Mavis staples
Mahalia jackson
Sam cooke
Mahalia jackson
Actress Gabrielle Union starred in what 2003 film with rapper/actor LL Cool J as an arrogant health inspector?
Two Can Play That Game
Breakin' All The Rules
Deliver Us From Eva
10 Things I Hate About You
Deliver Us From Eva
Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?
13th
Living family member with the most children?
Andre
Name three dance steps from the Disco era?
The hustle, the bump, the bus stop
Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s rendition of what song depicting the horrors of lynching is considered by critics to be the first time a protest song was elevated beyond propaganda to reach the level of art?
Strange Fruit
Which of these actresses has never been in a Tyler Perry movie?
Alfre Woodard
Taraji P Henson
Gabrielle Union
Regina Hall
Regina Hall
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v Board of Ed
Most Famous Cousin
Seen on TV
James Brown
What late night television program was the first to be hosted by an African American?
The Arsenio Hall Show
Michael Jackson’s Thriller was produced by which music producer?
Quincy Jones
Danny Glover did a fine job in "The Color Purple". Who wrote the novel?
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Joyce Carol Oates
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S. Senate seat in what state?
Illinois
Say and Spell Sals full first name
Silvanus
The Grammy Awards are given to artists who move above and beyond our expectations, putting their best foot forward to birth art through their music. One award – the Best Spoken Word Album – was won by this unlikely candidate twice. Once in 2006, and another in 2008. Who was it?
Barack Obama