Rhythm and Roots
This artist’s 2018 song “This Is America” won both Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammys.
Who is Childish Gambino?
This author’s 2018 book became one of the best-selling memoirs in history.
Who is Michelle Obama's Becoming?
This Black agricultural scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts and helped promote crop rotation.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Before Insecure, this writer and actor made the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.
Who is Issa Rae?
This piece of writing marks the end of slavery in the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 2016 visual album includes “Formation” and “Hold Up.”
What is Lemonade?
This lawyer and activist founded the Equal Justice Initiative and wrote Just Mercy.
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
This pigment helps protect skin cells from some of the effects of ultraviolet radiation.
What is melanin?
This film became the first horror movie nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
What is Get Out?
This tennis star won the 2023 US Open, becoming the first American teenager to win it since Serena Williams.
Who is Coco Gauff?
This music genre began in the Bronx during the 1970s.
What is hip-hop?
This poet delivered “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This NASA mathematician was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This ABC show follows teachers at a Philadelphia public school.
What is Abbott Elementary?
This cultural movement celebrated Black art, literature, and music in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This jazz legend, nicknamed “Satchmo,” sang “What a Wonderful World.”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This journalist and activist co-founded the National Association of Colored Women in 1896.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This woman became one of the first major Black female millionaires through her scientifically curated hair-care business.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This director made Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
Who is Ryan Coogler?
What popular card game is centered on black pop culture and acronyms?
What are culture tags?
This rapper became the first person outside classical or jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
This activist co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.
Who is Patrisse Cullors?
This organization introduces girls of color to coding and computer science.
What is Black Girls Code?
This series centers on a high school football star from South Los Angeles who transfers to a wealthy Beverly Hills school.
What is All American?
In Coming to America, Prince Akeem travels to Queens from which fictional African kingdom?
What is Zamunda?