Georgetown & BGSA History
Current Georgetown Basketball Coach
Patrick Ewing
"It's Friday You Ain't Got No Job. You Ain't Got Sxxx To Do."
FRIDAY
Creator of Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson
Highest Paid hip hop artist
Who was kicked out of the group in Dream Girls?
Effie/Jennifer Hudson
What colors are in the BGSA logo?
Black, brown, yellow, red, and green
"I'm going up this mountain to save my marriage!"
Tyler Perry's: Why did I Get Married
First Black person to publish a book in the United States
Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in 1773.
Attended Howard University and propelled to super stardom after portraying Marvel comic hero.
Chadwick Boseman
Wrote "If Beale Street Could Talk", "Go Tell it to the Mountain", "Giovanni's Room" and others
James Baldwin
What was BGSA's first instagram post?
"The call me NU NU, cause I always wear the New New"
ATL
Created over 500 products made from peanuts and sweet potatoes
George Washington Carver
Highest Paid Athlete in 2022
LeBron James
Quincy's father from Love & Basketball played for which NBA team?
LA Clippers
What year was BGSA founded?
2018
"Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble."
First Black American in space
Guion Bluford
First Black Person to win a Grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson
Who were the BGSA founding Co-Presidents?
Tyra Beamen and Koya Ferrell
"Ain’t nobody coming to see you, Otis!"
The Temptations
Wealthiest Black person in the United States
Robert Smith, owner of Vista Equity Partners
First Black Person to win an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind
First American colony to ban slavery
Vermont