Famous Black Women
In 2012, this black woman partnered with Pharrell to promote and fund the 2nd season her YouTube webseries: Awkward Black Girl.
Who is Issa Rae?
Before his life was cut short in 2020, due to a years long battle with colon cancer, this actor was known for playing famous black men in biopics, and for his performace as T'Challa in Black Panther.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
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?
The first Black woman elected to Congress, serving the first of seven terms beginning in 1969; and the first woman to seek the nomination for president of the U.S.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
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?
The 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?
This 1st-generation Brooklyn Born artists first achieved fame as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz during the late 1970s . He then became a solo artist who focused on dichotomies such as wealth vs poverty, integration vs. segregation and inner vs. outer experience.
Who is John Michel Basquiat?
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 Ujamaa.
What is cooperative economics?
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?