Black History
Harlem Renaissance poet from Lynchburg, VA
Anne Spencer
“The Queen of Soul”
Aretha Franklin
The highest-paid female athlete in the world
Naomi Osaka
The word “Christ” comes from the Greek word khristos which means
The Anointed (One)
Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris
The wealthiest black woman in the USA
Oprah Winfrey
The first woman to win 5 Grammys in one night
Lauryn Hill
She went on to be the first woman of color and the first Black gymnast in Olympic history to be the Individual All-Around Champion
Gabby Douglas
This country is the largest producer of bibles
China
The mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Keisha Bottoms
The oldest black female greek organization
Alpha Kappa Alpha
She wrote the song “God Bless the Child” after she got into argument with her mom
Billie Holiday
The first woman to sign with the WNBA
Sheryl Swoopes
The bible was written in these 3 languages
Hebrew, Arabic and Amaharic
First African American woman in congress in 1968
Shirley Chisholm
The first woman to refuse to give up her seat on the bus
Claudette Colvin
She first sang “Killing Me Softly” in 1973
Roberta Flack
An American tennis player who revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and who won more Grand Slam singles titles (23) than any other woman or man during the open era
Serena Williams
The bible takes place across these 3 continents
Asia, Africa and Europe
First African American Secretary of State
Condelezza Rice
The first black university in the USA
Lincoln University
A singer, songwriter and pianist who excelled at everything from jazz and classical to blues and pop, she penned the rousing “Mississippi Goddam” as a reaction to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a Black Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The most striking protest song of the ’60s. “The name of this tune is ‘Mississippi Goddam.’” Simone tells the crowd by way of introduction. “And I mean every word of it.”
Nina Simone
In 1951, she was the first Black tennis player to get invited to Wimbledon, and in 1956, she became the first Black tennis player to ever win a Grand Slam at the French Open
Althea Gibson
This is the last word in the bible
Amen
She is now 47. She has been a state legislator but never mayor. She is a moderately successful author: eight romance novels, written under the pen name Selena Montgomery have sold more than 100,000 copies. But she has become one of the most influential unelected politicians in America, despite narrowly losing the 2018 race for governor of Georgia
Stacey Abrams