Who Said It?
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
First Black President
Barack Obama
This movie stars Gabrielle Union as cheerleader
Bring It On
Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
A popular side dish
Potato salad, mac and cheese, collard greens, cornbread, etc.
“Yes we can!”
Barack Obama
First Black Secretary of State
Colin Powell
This singer died tragically in June 2009
Michael Jackson
The Souls of Black Folk, The Negro
WEB DuBois
This game is commonly played at cookouts
Spades or Dominoes
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes
First Black woman elected to House of Representatives
Shirley Chisholm
In 2006, this show came out as a spin off to the show “Girlfriends”
The Game
Between the World and Me, The Water Dancer, Black Panther (comics)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Should you show up empty handed?
No
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it”
Toni Morrison
Candidate for Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988
Jesse Jackson
This sitcom follows the life of a high school teenager and his family
Everybody Hates Chris
Go Tell It On The Mountain, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Popular line dance done at cookouts
Electric slide, cupid shuffle, wobble
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
W.E.B. DuBois
First Black woman to be Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
Grammy for best rap album in 2005
College Drop Out – Kanye West
Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider
Richard Wright
When do most cookouts take place?
Labor Day weekend