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This woman became not only the first Black person but also the first woman in the U.S to receive recognition as a sculptor
Mary Edmonia Lewis
- Morgan H. to elaborate
This Black person’s cells are the first immortal cells – meaning that the cells can divide multiple times without dying.
Henrietta Lacks
-Brianna B. to elaborate
This conversational tactic is used to dismiss the legitimate ideas of Black Women/Men in racial discussions by focusing on how something was said instead of what was said.
Tone Policing
-Randall B. to elaborate
This Ivy Park fashion designer is better known as a groundbreaking singer, performer, and creator of “Brown Skinned Girls”.
Beyoncé
This is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable.
White Fragility
-Robin S. to elaborate
Carter Godwin Woodson is the founder of _____.
Black History Week OR Black History Month
-Donna P to elaborate
This experiment unethically studied the effects of syphilis in 399 African American men under false pretenses.
Tuskegee Experiment
-Brianna B. to elaborate
Pulse oximeters, which are used for at-home health monitoring during the COVID pandemic, are inaccurate for more than ___ in 10 Black people.
1 in 10 Black people
-Lauren B. to elaborate
This green, finger-shaped vegetable is often used as a symbol of Southern cooking.
Okra
-Donna P. to elaborate
The adoption or exploitation of another culture by a more dominant culture is called ___.
Culture Appropriation
-Morgan H. to elaborate
This legendary actress and author was still active and working into her 90s, and was known for groundbreaking performances in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “Roots.
Cicely Tyson
-Brianna B. to Elaborate
Black women are ___ times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
2.5%
-Lauren B. to elaborate
What New York Times journalism project reframes American history by placing slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the national narrative.
The 1619 Project[PW1]
- Donna P. to elaborate
This form of communication is most commonly used by deaf African Americans in the United States.
BASL or BSV
The idea that you do not see color or notice the differences in race is called ____.
Color Blindness
-Brianna B. to elaborate
This author was a civil rights activist and novelist who was the subject of a recent documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro”.
James Baldwin
-Denise H. to elaborate
Trauma that continues from generation to generation it's known as ____.
Historical Trauma
This is a specific kind of racial prejudice that devalues Blackness while systematically marginalizing Black people, the issues that affect Black people, and the institutions created to support Black people.
Anti-Blackness
-Payge to elaborate
This great playwright chronicled a century of Black life with his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle,” including “Jitney” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.
August Wilson
-Denise H. to elaborate
An invisible package of unearned assets which one can count on ‘cashing in’ each and every day but is largely oblivious to is called ____.
White Privilege
-Ashley S. to elaborate
This person became the first Black person and the first Black woman to be named a vice presidential running mate on a major American political party ticket.
Charlotta Bass
-Denise H. to elaborate
_______ is the process that explains how someone’s life events can change the way their DNA is expressed.
Epigenetics
A learning resource that reinforces white supremacy in American school systems.
Textbooks
-Robin S. to elaborate
He was one of the best-known painters of the Harlem Renaissance, and spent his later years in Seattle. Many of his works chronicling Black history can be seen in Microsoft buildings.
Jacob Lawrence
-Randall B. to elaborate
This type of Allyship only serves at the surface level to platform the ally but isn’t aimed at breaking down systems of power.
(Adjective)Optical Allyship; (also: Performative Allyship, Ally Theater)
-Robin S. to elaborate