Famous Black Women
The first Black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award, exclusively hires female directors.
Who is Ava DuVernay
Invented three-way traffic light and a protective 'smoke hood, used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. Also recognized for creating hair straitening product line, member of the NAACP,
Who is Garrett Morgan?
A worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporas of African ancestry.
What is pan-Africanism?
Maulana Karenga.
Who is the creator of Kwanzaa?
Umoja.
What is the first principle of Kwanzaa?
Civil rights activist, focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness, credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and African Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole. A part of the Divine Nine.
Who is Dorothy height?
This Black man served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; but before his career in politics, he was a renowned neurosurgeon known for being the first surgeon to successful sperate conjoined twins.
Who is Ben Carson?
Representation of blood that was shed for liberation; the people of the diaspora; and the abundance of the motherland.
What is the meaning of the colors (red, black, and green) of the pan-African flag?
Kinara.
What is the name of the candle holder used for Kwanzaa?
First Fruits.
What is the meaning of the word "Kwanzaa" in English?
Born, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, this famous singer and pianist studied at the Julliard school of music in the summer of 1950 before starting her professional career as a blues and jazz singer.
Who is Nina Simone?
This famous Arthur, born in Harlem, spent most of his adult life in Paris, due to the prejudices he experienced as a Black man in America. His publications include, Go to tell it to the Mountain, and The Fire Next Time.
Who is James Bladwin?
Born in 1887, this Jamaican-born political activist advanced the pan-African philosophy and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Faith.
What is the meaning of the principle Imani?
January 1st.
What date does the last day of Kwanzaa fall on?
Who is Nannie Helen Boroughs?
African American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award
Who is Quincy Jones?
This movement, which derived from pan-Africanist ideas in the 1970s-1980s, included modes of thought and culture as a corrective to the long tradition of European cultural and intellectual domination.
What is Afrocentrism?
The meaning of the principle Ujima.
What is collective work and responsibility?
California.
In what U.S state was Kwanzaa first celebrated?
This activist publicly supported the Soledad brothers (3 inmates accused of killing a prison guard at Soledad prison in California), and as a result was listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.
Who is Angela Davis?
This Virgo (09/06/1972), born to Sierra Leonean immigrants, is known for his career as a successful actor who can fool anyway with his American accent.
Who is Idris Elba?
This prominent Black speaker, author, and activist who coined the term, "the talented tenth", organized the pan-African Congress (a series of 8 conferences) in London in 1900.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
The language of the seven Kwanzaa principles.
What is Swahili?
The cultural inspiration behind Kwanzaa.
What are West African harvest celebrations?