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Terminology
A person of two or more racial backgrounds.
A: What is Biracial or Multiracial?
A custom in New Orleans led mourners from church to the cemetery.
What is a Jazz Funeral?
This US holiday in June is celebrated in many ways including cookouts, parades, church services, musical performances, and other public events.
What is Juneteenth
Regions in the world where you can find descendants of Africa.
Where is Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States of America?
Known as the only true American artform, invented by Black musicians.
What is Jazz?
The combination of ebony and phonics is now called African American Language (AAL).
What is Ebonics
What do the colors Red(the blood that unites all people of black African ancestry and shed for liberation), Green (the abundant and vibrant natural wealth of Africa, and Black (for the people who exist as a nation) represent?
What is the Pan-African Flag
Daily Double:
Who is the father of Pan-Africanism?
The celebration of this vibrant Holiday across the African Diaspora can be seen in areas such as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, New Orleans, Louisiana and Trinidad and Tobago.
What is Carnival?
The country where almost 800,000 Africans were brought as slaves, and the home of the world’s only successful slave revolution.
What is Haiti?
A hairstyle expressing Black pride and a rejection of assimilation which gained prominence in the 1960s.
What is the Afro?
A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, and language.
What is ethnicity?
A family tradition that could encompass food, dancing, games, and matching apparel started by Black people, which is now a custom celebrated throughout the United States.
What is a Family Reunion?
Daily Double:
Name 3 foods commonly eaten at a Family reunion.
The largest African-American Street Festival in the US which takes place each summer in Philadelphia.
What is Odunde?
African diaspora populations include but are not limited to?
Afro-Caribbean, Afro Laina Americans, Black Canadian
This style of music originated in Black American communities and combines elements of spirituals, work songs and the blues.
What is Gospel Music?
The person who coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw
This cloth is a symbol of African unity and Heritage.
What is a kente cloth?
The candle lit on the 3rd day of Kwanzaa.
What is Ujima?
This mass migration of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern US to the Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910-1970.
What is the Great Migration?
Daily Double
Name three states that folks migrated to:
The author of the 1851 speech “Ain’t I a Woman”.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
520 living languages are spoken in this country in Africa.
What is Nigeria?
A religion practiced by the Aja, Ewe and Fon peoples, now practiced in places of the African Diaspora like Haiti and Louisiana.
What is Voodoo or Hoodoo?
Aug. 6 is the independence day of this diasporic country located in the Caribbean.
What is Jamaica?
Over this many millions of people of African ancestry live outside of the continent of Africa.
What is 200 million?
Raising this specific fist symbolizes Black Power.
What is the Right fist?