Black Pop Culture
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February:
Black History Month
Black History Month
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In 2009, Disney finally debuted the studios first animated black princess: this young woman lives in New Orleans and dreams of one day opening her own restaurant
Tiana
100
This lawyer became the first black US President
Obama
100
In 1955, this woman in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus
Rosa Parks
100
Millennials are known for expressing laughter in this way
LOL
100
In this 1996 movie, this basketball player gets sucked into Looney Toon Land by Bugs Bunny
(name the movie and the basketball player)
Space Jam and Michael Jordan
100
This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products
Butterfly
200
This 2018 film featured the first black superhero to lead a Marvel movie
Black Panther
200
This movie features an icon in pink, Elle Woods, as she pursues a law degree
Legally Blonde
200
This woman, celebrated for her work within the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom, also served as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union Army
Harriet Tubman
200
BRB stands for
Be right back
200
This second single from Taylor Swift's 1989 album features a pen click as one of it's creative elements in the song, contributing to its unique atmosphere and style
Blank Space
200
She's working late 'cause she's a singer
Sabrina Carpenter
300
The first black artist to headline Coachella
Beyonce
300
It is illegal to bring a lion to a movie theater in this state on the east coast
Maryland
300
The first black writer to win a Nobel Peace Prize:
(A) James Baldwin
(B) Tori Morrison
(C) Langston Hughes
(B) Tori Morrison
300
This singer made the term YOLO (you only live once) popular
Drake
300
This is the widest key on the keyboard, designed for easy access by both thumbs
Space bar
300
In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston shares his muscle-building diet: as a lad, he ate this many eggs per day
Four dozen
400
This man was the first African American player in the MLB
Jackie Robinson
400
This 1967 landmark civil rights decision of the US Supreme Court ruled that interracial marriage was legal nationwide
Loving v. Virginia
400
Martin Luther King Jr., American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who championed nonviolent resistance to end racial segregation and injustice, gave his famous "I have a dream" speech here
Washington, DC
400
These two toy characters have an amazing story of being BFFL
Woody & Buzz Lightyear
400
Due to a runaway greenhouse effect, this planet is the hottest in our solar system
Venus
400
An early name for this social media app was Picaboo - the ghost of the old name still haunts their current logo
Snapchat
500
'Respect' this singer known as the "Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin
500
In this court case in 1954, the US Supreme Court ended what was previously legal segregation in public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
500
Known as the "peanut man", this agricultural scientist and inventor sought to improve the lives of poor farmers in the post-Civil War South by promoting alternative crops to cotton which helped improve farming practices and increase sustainable agriculture
George Washington Carver
500
This acronym describes a US higher learning institution established before 1964 that historically provided primarily African Americans with college and university education opportunities since they were largely excluded from other colleges due to racial discrimination
HBCU
500
Portrayed in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, this woman is described as an American human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent US crewed spaceflights; the space agency noted her as one of the first African American women to work as a NASA scientist
Katherine Johnson
(born as Creola Katherine Johnson)
500
This US state is the only one to grow coffee
Hawaii