Black History
This woman is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” for refusing to give up her bus seat.
Who is Rosa Parks
This artist is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Aretha Franklin
This show starred Will Smith as a teen from Philly living with rich relatives in Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Double or nothing
Love & Basketball
This poet wrote “Still I Rise.”
Maya Angelou
“This is how we...”
We do it
What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black College or University
This formerly enslaved man became a famous abolitionist, speaker, and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass
This New Orleans musician helped make jazz famous around the world
Louis Armstrong
This show starred Robert Townsend as a father trying to raise talented children
The Parent ‘Hood
Ricky!
Boyz n the Hood
This author wrote The Color Purple.
Alice Walker
Im every woman
It's all in me
This North Carolina HBCU is often called the number one HBCU
North Carolina A&T State University
This amendment gave citizenship rights to formerly enslaved people.
The 14th Amendment
This record label was founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit
Motown Records
This sitcom starred Mark Curry as a teacher and former NBA player.
Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper
Who said It’s Friday, you ain’t got no job
Smokey from Friday
This author wrote Native Son.
Richard Wright
Before I let
go
This HBCU in Washington, D.C. was founded in 1867.
Howard University
DD: This activist said, “We are not fighting racism with racism. We are fighting racism with solidarity
Fred Hampton
DD: This singer and activist performed “Mississippi Goddam.”
Nina Simone
This show starred LL Cool J as an ex-football player living with his family.
In the House
I’m the pappy!
Ray Gibson / Eddie Murphy
This author wrote Kindred, a novel involving slavery and time travel.
Octavia Butler
Back that
Thang up
This HBCU is known for research and is working toward R1 status.
Morgan State University
This Reconstruction-era agency helped formerly enslaved people with schools, labor contracts, and family reunification.
The Freedmens
DD: This hip-hop group released “Fight the Power,” which was featured in Do the Right Thing.
Public Enemy
DD: This Spike Lee movie takes place on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn
Do the Right Thing
You are my queen
Coming to America
This activist and scholar wrote Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism.
bell hooks
I got I got
Loyalty, got royalty
This HBCU is famous for its “Marching 100” band.
Florida A&M University
This poet became the first National Youth Poet Laureate and performed at a presidential inauguration.
Amanda Gorman
This DJ is often credited as one of the founding fathers of hip-hop
DJ Kool Herc
This horror movie features the legend of a hook-handed man summoned by saying his name
Candyman
DD Message
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood ....The mailman / Keenen Ivory Wayans
This author wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
W. E. B. Du Bois
You remind me
This HBCU is known as “Home by the Sea.”
Hampton University
This movement in the 1920s celebrated Black art, music, literature, and racial pride.
The Harlem Renaissance
This group had one of the first rap songs to become a major commercial hit
The Sugarhill Gang
This anthology horror film includes stories about racism, police violence, gangs, and supernatural revenge.
Tales from the Hood
Sit your five-dollar self down
New Jack City
This writer wrote Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington
The boy
Is mine
This HBCU is the only Catholic HBCU in the United States.
Xavier University of Louisiana
This Black woman became the first Black person to win an EGOT
Whoopi Goldberg
This genre developed in New Orleans and blended blues, ragtime, brass band music, and African American musical traditions
This horror-comedy sequel puts the Leprechaun in an urban setting
Leprechaun in the Hood
King Kong ain’t got nothing on me
Training Day
DD: This enslaved poet became one of the first published Black poets in America.
Phillis Wheatley
You down with
O.P.P
This HBCU began as a teacher-training school in 1900.
Coppin State University
This West African king is often remembered as one of the richest people in history.
Mansa Musa
This jazz pianist and bandleader led one of the most famous orchestras in American music history.
Duke Ellington
This movie stars Snoop Dogg as a murdered man who returns for revenge
Bones
Soul Food
This scholar wrote Black Feminist Thought.
Patricia Hill Collins
Mack
Which schools does this HBCU rivalry is known as the “Aggie-Eagle Classic.
North Carolina A&T vs. North Carolina Central
This ancient African civilization built pyramids and became one of the world’s earliest great civilizations.
Kemet
This gospel singer was known as the “Queen of Gospel.”
Mahalia Jackson
This vampire film stars Aaliyah as Queen Akasha.
Queen of the Damned
You gotta coordinate.
Boomerang
Not Paved for Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
Camika Royal
A change is
Gonna come
This Black fraternity was founded at Morgan State University in 1963.
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.