Black Innovators in Hematology
Women Making History
U.S. Pop Culture
Springing into the New Year
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This Black physician and public health leader helped make universal newborn screening for sickle cell disease a standard in the U.S. by showing that early penicillin treatment in infants greatly reduces deadly infections.
Who is Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston?
100
This month is celebrated annually as Women’s History Month.
What is March?
100
This Michael Jackson music video gets replayed more than any other music video at Halloween time.
What is Thriller?
100
Often held in March or April, this Christian holiday features chocolate bunnies, egg decorating, and egg hunts.
What is Easter?
200
By using methotrexate to treat leukemia and other blood cancers, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright helped prove that this type of systemic drug treatment could be effective in cancer care.
What is chemotherapy?
200
This Mexican artist was memorialized in the Barbie Inspiring Women series, but Mattel faced criticism when the doll did not include her signature unibrow.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
200
In this 2009 Disney film set in New Orleans, Tiana becomes the studio’s first Black princess and shows kids that hard work and big dreams can coexist.
What is The Princess and the Frog?
200
This holiday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Vernal or Spring Equinox?
300
Dr. Charles R. Drew showed that this liquid part of blood could be stored longer than whole blood and safely used in transfusions.
What is plasma?
300
In 1980, this President of the United States signed the first proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women's History Week.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
This professional athlete played basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers, and nicknamed the “Black Mamba”.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
300
This is the name of the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, a time of fasting.
What is Ramadan?
400
Dr. William Cardoza showed that sickle cell anemia runs in families in this way: a child must get the abnormal gene from both parents to have the disease.
What is recessive?
400
Internationally, this color is often associated with and worn on Women's Day.
What is Purple?
400
In this football film, an Alexandria, Virginia team that once couldn’t even sit together at lunch finally comes together through late‑night practices, emotional speeches, and very enthusiastic locker‑room singing of ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’.
What is Remember the Titans?
400
This 5-day Hindu "Festival of Colors" often occurs in March, celebrating the arrival of spring.
What is Holi?
500
Dr. Yvette Bonny performed eastern Canada’s first children’s transplant of this kind, helping kids with leukemia and other serious blood diseases.
What is Bone Marrow Transplant?
500
In 1981, she became the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O’Conner?
500
This movie tells the true story of how the U.S. Space Program really got off of the ground?
What is Hidden Figures?
500
This is the 3,000-year-old Persian new year holiday that is deemed a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and widely celebrated around the world, such as by the United States Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
What is Nowruz?