BLACK ENTERTAINMENT
WHAT SONG IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THE FIRST HIP HOP RECORD.
What is Rapper's Delight?
HIS CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, FOUNDED IN 1909, HAS BEEN CENTRAL IN LEGAL CHALLENGES TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
WHAT IS THE NAACP?
THIS BLACK WOMAN ESCAPED SLAVERY AND SUED FOR HER FREEDOM IN 1828—AND WON—BECOMING ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK WOMEN TO DO SO IN U.S. HISTORY.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DEVELOPED HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS FROM THIS CROP, INCLUDING INK, SOAP, AND PLASTIC.
What is the peanut?
THIS LEGENDARY BLACK ARTIST’S CROWN MOTIF AND GRAFFITI-INSPIRED STYLE HAVE BEEN FEATURED ON CLOTHING BY BRANDS LIKE SUPREME, COACH, AND COMME DES GARÇONS.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
THIS SINGER AND ACTRESS STARRED IN “CARMEN JONES” IN 1954, MAKING HER ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK WOMEN TO HEADLINE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM.
Who is Dorothy Dandridge?
SHE'S THE MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, MENTORING W.E.B DU BOIS AND THURGOOD MARSHALL.
WHO IS ELLA BAKER?
THIS BLACK STATESMAN AND EDUCATOR SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF MOREHOUSE COLLEGE FOR 27 YEARS AND TAUGHT A YOUNG MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Mays?
MADAM C.J. WALKER BECAME AMERICA’S FIRST FEMALE SELF-MADE MILLIONAIRE THANKS TO HER PRODUCTS FOR THIS.
What is Black hair care?
TRADITIONALLY WORN IN WEST AFRICA, THIS COLORFUL CLOTH IS A SYMBOL OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND IS OFTEN SEEN IN GRADUATION STOLES.
What is Kente cloth?
THIS RAPPER WON A PULITZER PRIZE FOR MUSIC IN 2018, A FIRST FOR THE GENRE.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
THIS HISTORIAN AND WRITER PRESERVED BLACK HISTORY IN TEXAS AND FOUGHT TO MAKE JUNETEENTH A STATE HOLIDAY.
THIS MAN DESIGNED THE JUNETEENTH FLAG IN 1997 TO SYMBOLIZE BLACK FREEDOM AND A NEW HORIZON FOR AMERICA.
Who is Ben Haith?
HE INVENTED THE THREE-POSITION TRAFFIC SIGNAL AFTER WITNESSING A COLLISION BETWEEN A HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE AND A CAR.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
THIS HARLEM DESIGNER MADE CUSTOM GUCCI-INSPIRED LOOKS FOR HIP-HOP ARTISTS IN THE 1980s BEFORE BEING OFFICIALLY COLLABORATED WITH DECADES LATER.
Who is Dapper Dan?
THIS MUSICIAN WORKED WITH DIZZY GLLIESPE, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, AND DUKE ELLINGTON. SHE SHATTERED GENDER AND RACIAL BARRIERS AND BECAME FIRST BLACK WOMAN SINGER TO WIN A GRAMMY.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
THIS CO-FOUNDER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY EARNED A PH.D. WHILE LIVING IN EXILE AND WAS KNOWN FOR HIS CRITICAL VIEWS ON POLICING AND POWER.
THIS PHYSICIAN PERFORMED SUCCESSFUL OPEN-HEART SURGERY IN 1893, DECADES BEFORE IT WAS COMMON PRACTICE.
Who is Dr. Daniel Halle Williams?
DR. SHIRLEY JACKSON’S RESEARCH IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR THIS WIDELY USED PHONE FEATURE.
What is caller ID?
THIS BLACK-LED FASHION MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s–70s EMBRACED NATURAL HAIR, KENTE CLOTH, AND DASHIKIS AS SYMBOLS OF CULTURAL PRIDE.
THIS PLACE WAS BUILT DURING THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, IS KNOWN FOR CULTURAL AND MUSICAL MECCA.
THIS BLACK WOMAN ABOLITIONIST, LECTURER, AND POET WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST TO PUBLISH WRITINGS THAT CONDEMNED BOTH RACISM AND SEXISM.
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
THIS BLACK MAN WAS A MATH GENIUS AND SURVEYOR WHO HELPED PLAN WASHINGTON, D.C.—BUT WAS LARGELY WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
HE HELPED DESIGN THE FIRST COLOR PC MONITOR AND HOLDS A PATENT ON THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND THE MODERN PERSONAL COMPUTER.
Who is Mark Dean?
THIS BLACK FEMALE DESIGNER BROKE BARRIERS IN 1973 AS ONE OF THE FIRST TO OWN A LUXURY BOUTIQUE ON NYC’S MADISON AVENUE.
Who is Ann Lowe?