If You Know You Know
Advertising
Played the Pioneers
Bye Felicia
Fluid
200

This activity will inevitably break out at any Black (or country) event.

Line Dancing

200

Brands get criticized for simply changing their logo to this pattern in June.

Rainbow

200

Sean Penn won Best Actor for his turn in this role.

Harvey Milk

200
One of several U.S. sanctuary states.
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • District of Columbia
  • Illinois
  • Minnesota
  • Nevada
  • New York
  • Oregon
  • Rhode Island
  • Vermont
  • Washington
200

Pop music was buzzing when one of its stars sang her second act in a traditionally "white" genre with this album.

Cowboy Carter

400

"Where them ____ at?"

Fans

400

Everyone here has probably considered boycotting this store, known for its two-color ads.

Target

400

"I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me," is something Rami couldn't claim after portraying this musician in a 2018 film.

Freddy Mercury

400

Just married, this tennis pro spent time living in Paris.

Venus Williams

400

In olden times, a passionate kiss between these two pop stars at the MTV Awards made headlines.

Madonna and Britney Spears

600

This physical item kept African Americans safe while traveling in the mid-20th century.

The Negro Motorist Green Book / The Green Book

600

This magazine is the pinnacle of an industry that often excluded black models from its ads... until 2020, of course.

Vogue

600

One could say that this actor played one of the most important Black figures in cinematic history, even if that character and his country were fictional.

Chadwick Boseman

600

With a surge of COVID-era remote workers crossing the border, natives of this country protest U.S. immigrants as being "no bueno."

Mexico

600

These pronouns might express someone's non-identification with binary genders.

They/Them

800

One dance move is the equivalent of a mic drop in a vogue competition.

Death Drop

800

A legendary ad series for this product showed stars from all backgrounds wearing an unconventional moustache.

Milk

800

This playwright burst on the scene with a comedy that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a woman yearning for a life in cabaret.

Cole Escola

800

If Beale Street Could Talk, it would tell you this author is now living in the City of Light.

James Baldwin

800

The protagonist of this Oscar-winning film grapples with his identity and sexuality throughout childhood and adolescence, ultimately forming a deeply intimate bond with another man.

Moonlight

1000

This club was known as a "dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor."

Studio 54

1000

This brand is a fixture at many LGBTQ venues, and even had a special "borough" edition featuring Spike Lee at its launch party.

Absolut

1000

The protagonist of this Oscar-winning film grapples with his identity and sexuality throughout childhood and adolescence, ultimately forming a deeply intimate bond with another man.

Moonlight

1000

The "Year of Return" campaign cemented this country as a premier destination for Black American expats.

Ghana

1000

Cheerleaders on this pop music fueled television show grappled with their mutual attraction.

Glee

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