In this novel, Calpurnia serves as the "colored" housekeeper to Finch household, and plays a pivotal role in bridging the "white world" and her own black community for Scout
What is To Kill a Mockingbird
100
Lil Kim was regarding this artist in this particular statement:
"If you have to make a song called 'Stupid Hoe,' you must be a stupid hoe,"
Who is Nicki Minaj
100
After an 1839 slave revolt, this slave ship ended up in the Long Island Sound. It eventually docked in New Haven, as the rights of ownership of the ship and slaves played out in court.
What is The Amistad (La Amistad)
100
After its infamous natural disaster, many inhabitants of this city moved to the cities of Atlanta and Houston for economic stability.
What is New Orleans
100
Phylicia Rashad as Claire Huxtable
What is The Cosby Show
200
In a 2010 New York Times Bestseller, this woman's life and her immortal cell line, that came from her cancer cells in 1951, is documented.
Who is Henrietta Lacks
200
In January 2016, Janet Hubert aka Aunt Viv, smashed this former co-star's wife for wanting viewers to boycott the 2016 Oscars.
Who is Jada Pinkett Smith
200
This author and Hartford resident, played a large part in energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking wide spread anger in the South, after the release her best known novel.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
4,000 National Guardsmen were sent to this city to enforce the law, after the acquittal of policemen on trial in the beating of Rodney King.
What is Los Angeles
200
Tichina Arnold as Rochelle Rock
What is Everybody Hates Chris
300
This book focuses on the downward spiral of Winter Santiaga as she struggles with relationship and homelessness in Brooklyn, New York.
What is The Coldest Winter Ever
300
At the 2014 White House's Women of Soul concert, Aretha Franklin made a grand entrance and greeted everyone except for this artist, in which their beef goes back into the 1970s.
Who is Patti Labelle
300
After World War II, many workers from this nation came to the Greater Hartford area to work seasonally in tobacco fields, soon after many families and friends followed.
What is Jamaica
300
This coastal Creole language, with influences from many African Languages, once stretched from Kitty Hawk, NC all the way to Jacksonville,FL.
What is Gullah or Geechee
300
Jo Marie Payton as Harriet Winslow
What is Family Matters
400
This novel ends with two sisters embracing each other and introducing their respective families, after not having seen each other in 30 years.
What is The Color Purple
400
This Actress/Comedian stated that she was offered the role of Cookie Lyon on Empire and would have taken it if she hadn't been blackballed by the producer Lee Daniels.
Who is Monique
400
This famous best friend and news anchor, spent 18 years at WFSB (Channel 3) before going into magazine editing.
Who is Gayle King
400
After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, this "Say It Loud" artist brought peace to Boston after nights of rioting.
Who is James Brown
400
Sheryl Lee Ralph as Dee Mitchell
What is Moesha
500
This play, set in the author's hometown of Chicago, is based off of a poem by Langston Hughes
What is A Raisin in the Sun
500
During the 2015 BET Awards, Patti Labelle brought together these two artists to reconcile on stage, after one stated that the other "looked like a Muppet"
Who is K. Michelle and Tamar Braxton
500
This Civil Rights Activist spent the summer of 1944 picking tobacco in Simsbury. This job led him to explore the integration in the Greater Hartford Area, inspiring him to want changes in his own community.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
500
This West African city was a pivotal center of trade and commerce for Trans-Saharan caravans.