Historical Figures
Country-Specific
Media & Pop Culture
Hair & Beauty
Yale & New Haven
100
This civil rights leader delivered the 'I Have A Dream' speech.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This Caribbean nation was the first Black republic in the world.
What is Haiti?
100
This streaming platform launched by Tyler Perry focuses on Black storytelling.
What is BET+?
100
This beauty brand, launched in 2017 by Rihanna, disreupted the cosmetics industry by debuting with 40 foundation shades.
What is Fenty Beauty?
100
This historically Black neighborhood in New Haven has long served as a center for Black culture, activism and community organizing.
What is Dixwell?
200
W.E.B Du Bois, an activist and sociology scholar, co-founded this grassroots organization in 1909 which is now the oldest, largest, most widely recognized grassroots civil rights organization. 
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
200
Nelson Mandela served as president of this country after apartheid ended.
What is South Africa?
200
Shonda Rhimes is known for producing this Netflix series on English high society.
What is Bridgerton?
200
This haircare brand, founded by Richelieu Dennis, uses shea butter as its signature ingredient and traces its origins to his grandmother's recipes in Sierra Leone.
What is SheaMoisture?
200
This Yale cultural center, founded in 1969 after student activism, supports Black student life and community programming.
What is the Afro-American Cultural Center (The House)?
300
Thurgood Marshall is the first African-American to hold to this position.
What is a Supreme Court Justice?
300
Reggae music originated in this country.
What is Jamaica?
300
Issa Rae created and starred in this HBO series about love and friendship in Los Angeles.
What is Insecure?
300
This term refers to the natural curl pattern classification system ranging from straight to tightly coiled textures.
What is the Hair Typing System?
300
This New Haven-born activist co-founded the Black Panther party in 1966.
Who is Bobby Seale?
400
This prominent educator also founded the Tuskegee Institute, with the goal of producing teachers of farming and trades that could empower the Black South.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
This country is home to the Ashanti Kingdom and kente cloth traditions.
What is Ghana?
400
This 1980s cultural movement, rooted in Black and Latino LGBTQ+ communities in New York, introduced terms like 'voguing,' 'houses,' and 'ball culture' into mainstream pop culture decades later.
What is the Ballroom scene (or Ballroom culture)?
400
This California law prohibits discrimination based on hair style and texture.
What is the CROWN (Creating A Respectful and Natural World for Hair) Act?
400
This Yale residential college was renamed in 2017 to honor a pioneering Black computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral.
What is Grace Hopper College?
500
Bayard Rustin, though often kept out of the spotlightt due to his political affiliations and personal relationships, organized this massive protest in Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. which was attended by 250,000 people.
What is the 1963 March on Washington?
500
This country has the largest population of people of African descent outside Africa.
What is Brazil?
500
This pioneering Black-owned film studio, founded in 1916, produced race films for Black audiences during segregation and helped launch early careers of Black actors excluded from Hollywood.
What is the Lincoln Motion Picture Company?
500
The entrepreneur created a line of haircare products and became one of the self-made Black women millionaires.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
500
In 1839, New Haven became the site of a major abolitionist legal battle when Africans from this ship were jailed and later defended in a landmark case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is the Amistad?