Intellectual Foundations
This 1903 text introduced "double consciousness" as a framework for understanding Black Identity in America
What is: The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B Du Bois)
This region of Africa is home to jollow warriors and party people.
What is West Africa
This is the percentage of African-Americans who have African heritage;)
What is 100%
This African countries were never colonized
What is Ethiopia & Liberia?
This artist’s “Brenda’s Got a Baby” examined poverty, systemic neglect, and generational trauma in urban America.
Who is: Tupac Shakur?
This political philosophy, articulated in 1966 by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, emphasized self-determination and institutional control.
What is / Who is: Black Power?
This is the most common phrase said to black person who is being assertive or defending themselves.
What is ''aggressive'
This is the percentage of African-Americans who have a bachelor's degree or higher?
What is 26.2%
This country had the first female president on the African continent
What is Liberia?
This former N.W.A member’s early solo work critiqued policing, media narratives, and structural inequities in Los Angeles.
Who is: Ice Cube?
This 1966 organization’s platform included community self-defense and “survival programs” like free breakfast for children.
What is / Who is: The Black Panther Party?
The media often describes the African Continent in this way.
What is "no water", "starving", "poor", and "huts"?
This is the number of Africans who immigrated to the US in 2024
What is 2.5 million?
This Ghanaian leader was one of the founding fathers of the African Union and a promoter of Pan-Africanism.
Who is: Dr.Kwame Nkrumah?
This Pulitzer Prize–winning artist’s To Pimp a Butterfly interrogates racial capitalism, survivor’s guilt, and institutional racism.
Who is: Kendrick Lamar?
This concept describes overlapping systems of oppression (race, gender, class) and was formally theorized in 1989.
What is / Who is: Intersectionality (Kimberlé Crenshaw)?
Black girls do this to get rid of the itch in their hair.
What is patting it?
This is the percentage of African Americans in the Midwest.
What is 17%?
This African country was the last to gain independence, but from another African country!
What is South Sudan?
This artist’s 1998 album critiqued consumerism, misogyny, and miseducation while blending neo-soul and hip-hop.
Who is: Lauryn Hill?
This 1935 work reframed Reconstruction as a period of democratic possibility undermined by white supremacy and capital.
What is / Who is: Black Reconstruction in America (W.E.B. Du Bois)?
These jobs are the only ones people believe black people can do.
What is athlete or rapper?
This is the percentage of African Americans who earn $100k or more in 2021.
What is 6%?
This resource is Africa's largest export as a continent, and in almost everything!
What is Crude Oil/Oil/Petroleum?
This artist’s “Be Free” emerged after Michael Brown’s killing and directly addressed police brutality and state violence.
Who is: J. Cole?