African American First
He was the 1st African American quarterback to win a SuperBowl.
Who is Doug Williams
This classic film took place during the wedding week of football star, Lance Sullivan and his sweet bride Mia. However, one of Lance's close college friends Harper almost ruined the day!
What is the Best Man
He was the 1st African American to coach a professional sports team.
This HBCU founded in 1837 in Pennsylvania is the 1st HBCU ever established.
What is Cheyney University
In 2008 this person became the 44th President giving the nation Hope and becoming the 1st black presidential nominee, candidate from a major political party.
Who is Barack Obama
This Grammy winning R&B and Neo soul artist credited with award winning Album, "Coming From Where I'm From" hails from Charlotte, NC.
Who is Anthony Hamilton
Taken from us way too soon, this hip hop artist was known for his philanthropy work in the LA region and his Marathon clothing line.
Who is Nippsey Hussle.
This civil rights leader graduated high school at the age of 15 and went on to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. He was only 26 years old when he organized the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
She was the 1st female African American millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker
In the film What's Love Got To Do With It, a biopic about Tina Turner, Ike Turner played by Lawrence Fishburne, told his wife Ana Mae to sit down and eat this sweet treat.
What is cake
He was the youngest prizefighter to ever win the heavyweight championship of the world.
Who is Mike Tyson
What is Howard University
In 1989 this person became the first African American to be elected Governor in US history.
Who is Douglas Wilder
This man has a Highschool with a mascot of a cougar named after him after serving his community as a lawyer, civil rights leader, and educator.
Who is Julius L. Chambers
Before this artist rap career, he was theatre trained and attended the Baltimore school of Arts to study poetry and Jazz.
Who is Tupac Shakur
On February 1, 1960 four students who attended NC A&T State University sat down at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, these brave young men refused to give up their seats. They now have a statue on the campus of NC A&T state University and are know as...
Who are the Greensboro 4
He is the 1st African American to be elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Who is Charlie Pride
This annual event held in New Orleans, served as the perfect "Girls Trip" for Queen Latifa, Tiffany Haddish, Regina Hall, and problematic Jada Pinket Smith.
What is the Essence Festival
She was the 1st African American tennis player at the US Open.
Who is Althea Gibson
There are a total of 9 Fraternities and Sororities in the "Divine 9". How many of these organizations were founded at an HBCU?
What is 6
He is a political activist, minister and politician who was a Democratic candidate for President in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Jesse Jackson
This man is the 1st African American majority owner of a NBA team after buying into the Charlotte Bobcats in 2004.
Who is Bob Johnson
The album Get Rich of Die Tryin was created by this Artist.
Who is 50 cent
This President signed the Civil Rights act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon Johnson
This former shortstop, captain clutch is also the first CEO of a Major League baseball team (Miami Marlins).
Who is Derek Jeter
This Oscar winner portrayed roles such as a debate professor, a dirty cop, a highschool football coach, a drunken pilot, a union soldier, and many many more.
Who is Denzel Washington
He was the 1st African American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player award.
Who is Jackie Robinson
This University was founded in the basement of the south's first HBCU Shaw University. With notable alumni being America's second black astronaut Ronald McNair. It is the #1 producer of undergraduate degrees award to African Americans in Agriculture and Engineering.
What is NC A&T State University
AGGIE PRIDE!!!!!!!!!
This long term Congressman encouraged his followers to get into good trouble, necessary trouble, and help the soul of America.
Who is John Lewis
This Charlotte black owned restaurant is best know for it's southern fare with bold flavors. Menu items consist of wings, fried shrimp, red velvet waffles, tenders, and most famously it's lobster mac and cheese.
What is Cuzzo's Cuisine
Before he was a 5 time Grammy winning hip hop superstar, you could have found this Canadian born rapper playing the roll of Wheelchair Jimmy on the TV show Degrassi.
Who is Drake
This group was a militant black power group that believed in self-defense, fighting back, and protecting black people from brutality. Some of it's most famous members include, Fred Hampton, Huey P. Newton, and Tupac Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur.
Who is the Black Panther Party
She is the 1st African American to ever headline Coachella.
Who is Beyone
This Grammy winning artist stars as Hilary Banks in the revamped Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Her true fans will also recognize her as Roxie from the Disney gem let it shine.
Who is CoCo Jones
This football Bowl game played in Atlanta, GA between the winners of the MEAC and SWAC conferences has been titled the National HBCU championship.
What is The Celebration Bowl
What is Johnson C. Smith
Appointed by President Biden this retired general became the 1st black Defense Secretary in US history.
Who is Lloyd Austin
This famous club formerly located on Beattis Ford Road was a popular venue in the mid 20th century. It hosted prominent African American entertainers such as Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. It was best know for it's dirty dirty Thursday groove before closing it's doors in 2016. If you know, you know!
What is the Excelsior Club
This is the 1st Rap Album to ever go platinum.
What is Raising Hell by Run DMC
This amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of color or previous conditions of servitued.
What is the 15th amendment
Dollar Dollar Bill y'all! This poet, author, and sometimes actress became the 1st African American woman to appear on any type of U.S. currency.
Who is Maya Angelou
Denise Huxtable decided to attend this fictitious HBCU located in South East Virginia.
What is Hillman College
Lee Elder is famous for his contributions to this sport.
What is golf
Terrence C. Carson who played Kyle Barker in Living Single is a member of of the Black Greek Letter Orgnization.
What is Iota Phi Theta
This woman is the 1st and only black woman to be sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris
This woman is the reason why the city of Charlotte is known as the Queen City. She was married to King George III of England.
Who is Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
This singer/rapper won 5 Grammy's on one night in 1998 off their first and ONLY solo album.
Who is Lauryn Hill
This bridge (now a National Historic Landmark) located in Selma, AL is where the brutal "bloody" Sunday attacks occurred on civil rights marches during the 1st march for voting rights.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Trailblazing the way for future Africa American musical artist she is the 1st black Grammy winner.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
In the sitcom Martin, Martin had a huge crush on his former teacher played by Beverly Johnson. The teacher came on to Martin, which caused Gina to almost put hands on her! What was the teachers name?
Who is Ms. Trinidad
He was given the Nickname of Mr. October for his outstanding play in baseball during the World Series.
Who is Reggie Jackson
Before he was winning Super Bowls on the way to a Hall of Fame career. Before he was getting celebs to spill all the juicy tea while the sit on the couch at Club Shay Shay...Shannon Sharpe got his start at this HBCU in the state of GA. Located in southern GA, it is the 1st public HBCU in the state of GA.
What is Savannah State
In 1992, this person from Illinois became the 1st black woman elected to the US Senate.
Who is Carol Moseley-Braun
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His work in collage led the New York Times to describe him as "the nations foremost collegiant". He has a park named after him in Uptown.
Who is Romare Bearden
Ghostface Killa, Method Man, RZA, and Raekwon the Chef are just 4 member of the hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. They hale from what New York burrow?
What is Staten Island
These laws enforced or legalized racial segregation. These laws lasted for almost 100 years, from the post civil war era unti around 1968, and their main purpose was to legalize the marginalization of African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws
She made history when she became the 1st African American woman to win a seat in congress.
Who is Shirley Chisolm
In the 1978 movie The Wiz, what did the evil witch Evilene not want anyone to bring her.
What is no bad news
These are the only 2 black NFL head coaches to ever face each other in a Super Bowl.
Who are Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith
HBCU's are known for their special brand of marching band sound. This school is recorded as having the 1st ever HBCU band. Located in Alabama, it has notable Alumni, such as Lionel Richie.
What is Tuskegee University
This woman in 2017 after serving as a city council for four years became the city of Charlotte's first elected African American female Mayor.
Who is Vi Lyles
This sold out comedy special was filmed in Charlotte, featured 4 legends of the comedy game, 3 of which had TV shows named after them. A few of them were recently called out by Katt Williams on the Club Shay Shay podcast.
What is the Original Kings of Comedy
Calvin Cordazor Broadus Jr. is better know to the world as...
Who is Snoop Dogg
A group of Civil Rights activists both African American and White who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals were know as?
Who are the Freedom Riders
He was the 1st black astronaut to live and work at the International Space Station for and extended stay.
Who is Victor J. Glover
This legendary artist plays the role of Davis McLean, lawyer to Tariq St. Patrick in the Starz hit series Ghost Power Book II.
Who is Method Man aka Clifford Smith Jr.
He is the only player in College Football History to win the Heisman Trophy twice.
Who is Archie Griffin
This state has the highest number of HBCU campuses.
What is Alabama
Barbara Johnson became the South's first African American to hold this political position.
What is Congresswoman
This former Charlotte City Council member and MIT graduate became the 1st African American student accepted at Clemson University. His architect company is credited with developing some of the city's most iconic landmarks: Charlotte Transportation Center, TransAmerica Square, ImaginOn, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church and Johnson C. Smith University Science Center. He was also elected as Charlotte's first African American Mayor in 1983. There is an Arts and Culture museum named after him in the city.
Who is Harvey Gantt
Released in 1980 by the Sugar Hill game this is the 1st rap song ever!
What is Rapper's Delight
Before converting to the Nation of Islam and becoming a major force in the African American fight against social injustice and inequality, what was Malcome X's last name?
What is Little
He was the 1st African American Senator in 1870.
Who is Hiram Revels
This Harvard grad founded a production company, Higher Grounds, with is wife. They recently released a Netflix movie starring Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali, where they decided to leave the world behind.
Who is Barack Obama
This is the year African Americans were 1st allowed to compete in the Olympic Games.
What is 1904
These are the only 2 all female HBCU campuses.
What are Bennett and Spellman College.
In 1872 this man was the 1st US Vice Presidential candidate running alongside Victoria Woodhurl, was nominated by the National Radical Reformers, as she was the 1st woman Presidential candidate.
Who is Frederick Douglas
Born in Charlotte NC in 2022. He began working as a caddy at the age of 13. He was the 1st African American to play on the PGA tour and has a golf course named after him here in Charlotte.
Who is Dr. Charles Sifford
After a young fan was killed after one of his concerts this hip hop legend started the Stop the Violence Movement and in 1989 led an all-star group of MC's in creating the hit song Self-Destruction.
Who is KRS-1
Before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, this brave 15 year old girl also refused to sit at the back of the bus in Montgomery, AL.
Who is Claudette Colvin