Lauren Lore
Who introduced Lauren and Ron on a hot Sunday in June 2016
Aunt Mary Baker
This organization, formed in 1960 after student sit-ins, became known for grassroots organizing, Freedom Rides, and voter registration work.
What is SNCC / the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This abolitionist and women’s rights advocate gave the famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth
This Beyoncé solo hit had everybody saying “uh-oh” in 2003.
What is “Crazy in Love”
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “I, Too” and “Harlem.”
Who is Langston Hughes
Lauren's favorite color is...
Yellow
During Freedom Summer, volunteers helped create these alternative educational spaces for Black students in Mississippi.
What are Freedom Schools
This legal scholar coined the term “intersectionality.”
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw
This Usher album included “Yeah!,” “Burn,” and “Confessions Part II.”
What is Confessions
This author wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
Lauren's official title at work.
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
This 1965 march became known as “Bloody Sunday” after marchers were attacked while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
What is the Selma to Montgomery march
This journalist and activist led anti-lynching campaigns in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who is Ida B. Wells
This Mary J. Blige song from 2005 became an anthem about healing and joy.
What is “Be Without You”
This poet and author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou
The name of Lauren's podcast.
They're Trying To Kill Us
This NAACP field secretary was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers
This Black lesbian feminist poet wrote Sister Outsider.
Who is Audre Lorde
This 2001 song by Aaliyah was released after her death and became her first and only No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is “Try Again”
This author wrote The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Song of Solomon.
Who is Toni Morrison
Lauren's silly childhood nickname and the person who gave it to her.
"Scooter" - Dad
This Arkansas newspaper publisher and NAACP state president helped guide the Little Rock Nine during the school integration crisis.
Who is Daisy Bates
This activist and scholar wrote Women, Race & Class.
Who is Angela Davis
This producer collective, associated with Questlove, J Dilla, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, Bilal, and others, helped shape the sound of late-90s and early-2000s neo-soul.
Who are the Soulquarians
This poet became the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks