Yeah We Did That
This person became the first Black star to win an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony (known as the Triple Crown)
Viola Davis
Who is the President of Xbox, overseeing strategy, product development, and business for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar global gaming platform, and played a key role in the $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, the largest deal ever for a US tech company?
Sarah Bond
What New York Times journalism project reframes American history by placing slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the national narrative.
Correct Answer:
The 1619 Project
This form of communication is most commonly used by deaf African Americans in the United States.
BASL or BSV
Released in 2018 & making $1.35b in box offices, this movie is the 2nd highest grossing solo-superhero film of all time.
Black Panther
The movie “Hidden Figures” shares the story of three Black mathematicians (Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and ____ ) contributions to the NASA’s aeronautics and space programs.
Katherine Johnson
This New Orleans native has spent 30 years at Microsoft and is responsible for recruiting many senior Black engineers over the years.
Randall Boseman
This kind of racial prejudice that devalues Blackness while systematically marginalizing Black people and the issues that affect them
Anti-Blackness
This great playwright chronicled a century of Black life with his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle,” including “Jitney” "Fences" and, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
August Wilson
In April 2005, this show host famously screamed “we were all rooting for you” at a contestant.
Tyra Banks
This Black engineer created the Color IBM PC Monitor and Gigahertz Chip.
Mark Dean
Over 30 years ago, this person was one of the founding members of Blacks at Microsoft and now is the cofounder & Executive Director of Technology Access Foundation (TAF).
Trish Millines Dziko
This conversational tactic is used to dismiss the legitimate ideas of Black Women/Men in racial discussions by focusing on how something was said instead of what was said.
Tone Policing
He was one of the best-known painters of the Harlem Renaissance and spent his later years in Seattle. Many of his works chronicling Black history can be seen in Microsoft buildings.
Jacob Lawrence
Actor Idris Elba portrayed the stern and professional VP of Sales, Charles Miner, on this sitcom based in PA
The Office
Who is the first black astronaut to live and work at the international space station for an extended stay?
Victor J. Glover
Who led Microsoft's US sales strategy for driving digital transformation across customers and partners within the public sector and regulated industries. This person is now the CEO of SAIC, a leading Fortune 500® technology integrator spearheading the nation's digital transformation?
Toni Townes-Whitley
This predominantly Black, stable, and prosperous community was destroyed to make Central Park in NYC.
Seneca Village
This act seeks to protect Black people from racial discrimination based on hairstyles.
Crown Act of 2019
HBO Max series, created by Issa Rae, that follows two high school friends who reunite to form a rap group in Miami
Rap Sh!t
Who is the youngest film producer in history?
Marsai Martin
One of the earliest members of the Africans at Microsoft community and advisor for the first Africa Development Center in Microsoft.
Abolade Gbadegesin
This day (June 1st, 1921) marks the end of one of the most devastating race riots in US history that affected Tulsa, Oklahoma's Black community known as?
Black Wall Street
The Grammys have long been accused of cultural bias against black artist. In 2014, this artist who won a Grammy for Best Rap Album tweeted, “[Kendrick Lamar] deserved best rap album” and that “[Kendrick Lamar] was robbed”.
Macklemore
This city is the location of the historic battle referred to as “fade in the water,” “the Alabama Slama,” or “the Alabama sweet tea party”
Montgomery, Alabama