Love & Relationships
This holiday celebration love every February 14th.
What is Valentin’s Day?
He gave the “I Have A Dream“ speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This Motown founder created the label that launched artists like the Supremes and Marvin Gaye.
Who is Berry Gordy?
First Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Sweet treats often given on Valentine’s Day in heart-shaped boxes.
What is chocolate?
In Ancient Rome, this God of love shot arrows to make people fall in love?
Who is Cupid?
She refused to give up her seat to a white woman on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
Who is Claudette Colvin.
This 1979 rap song by The Sugarhill Gang is often credited with bringing hip-hop into the mainstream.
What is “Rapper’s Delight”?
First Black woman to travel to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Paper love messages exchanged in classrooms.
What are valentines/cards?
Shakespeare wrote about these two famous young lovers from rival families.
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
What was the first newspaper owned and operated by African Americans in the U.S.?
What is the Freedom’s Journal.
This jazz legend recorded the famous 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Who is Miles Davis?
First Black Major League Baseball player in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Giving chocolates became common after this 19th-century British company sold heart-shaped boxes in 1861.
What is Cadbury?
The red rose symbolizes this feelin.
What is love/romance.
Who was the first Black woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in the U.S. (1921)?
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This holiday celebrates freedom from slavery on June 19.
What is Juneteenth?
First Black woman elected Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The tiny candy hearts often have short sayings like “Be Mine” printed on them and are known by this name.
Conversation Hearts
This term means “love at first sight”
What is infatuation?
Which black woman, known as “Baby Esther,” was the inspiration be Betty Boop?
Who is Esther Jones?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “Dreams” and “Harlem.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
First Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (2002).
Who is Halle Berry?
Flowers most commonly given on Valentine’s Day.
What are roses?