Women’s Equality Day
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
World Humanitarian Day is observed every year on this date.
What is August 19?
Black Business Month is celebrated during this month each year.
What is August?
National Wellness Month takes place during this month.
What is August?
Intersectionality is a term coined by this scholar in 1989.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated annually on this date.
What is August 26?
This international organization often leads humanitarian responses to natural disasters and conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
This organization, founded in 1966, advocates for Black-owned businesses in the U.S.
What is the National Black Chamber of Commerce?
This practice, involving breathing and meditation, is often used to reduce stress and improve wellness.
What is mindfulness (or meditation)?
Intersectionality examines how different forms of discrimination, such as racism and sexism, do this.
What is overlap or intersect?
She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
This principle guides humanitarian aid, ensuring it is provided without discrimination.
What is impartiality?
She became the first female self-made millionaire in America through her haircare empire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and ______ well-being.”
What is social well-being?
A person who experiences both sexism and ableism at the same time is experiencing this.
What is multiple or intersecting discrimination?
This term refers to the unequal pay women often receive compared to men for the same work.
What is the gender pay gap?
World Humanitarian Day was established in memory of a 2003 bombing in this city.
What is Baghdad, Iraq?
his day after Thanksgiving highlights shopping at small and local businesses, including Black-owned ones.
What is Small Business Saturday?
Drinking enough water each day supports wellness by preventing this common issue.
What is dehydration?
This social movement, often abbreviated as BLM, uses intersectional approaches to address systemic injustice.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This U.S. Representative, often called the “Mother of Women’s Suffrage Celebration,” introduced the resolution that established Women’s Equality Day.
Who is Bella Abzug?
This international humanitarian law sets rules for the treatment of civilians and prisoners of war.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
This company, founded in 1900, was the first African American–owned business to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is Black Enterprise (or Correct Answer: RLJ Lodging Trust, depending on how you want to play)?
This concept, sometimes called the “8 dimensions,” refers to the holistic view of well-being, including emotional, physical, social, and financial health.
What is wellness?
This feminist group in the 1970s, named after a Boston neighborhood, is considered one of the first to articulate intersectional ideas.
What is the Combahee River Collective?