For the Culture
This annual HBCU tradition was introduced to many households by Queen Bey's Coachella performance.
What is Homecoming?
Note: Beyonce is the first Black woman to headline Coachella
In the year 1863, this executive order is issued which declared slaves in Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Note: It proclaimed the freedom of all slaves in the ten states in rebellion. However, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, the counties that would become West Virginia, Tennessee, lower Louisiana, and Southeast Virginia were excluded.
His debut studio album, Victory Lap, was released on February 16, 2018, premiering at number 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 53,000 album equivalent units in its first week.
Who is Ermias Joseph Asghedom AKA Nipsey Hussle?
Note: He earned the nickname “Neighborhood Nip” because of the positive impact he had on his community. As an entrepreneur & investor he generated an estimated $210,413,500 and hired/impacted at least 40,000 individuals (not related to music).
Henry Sampson was the inventor of the gamma-electric cell and was also a pioneer in developing the technology used in this popular hand-held electronic device.
Hint: If you have one, you won’t leave home without it.
What is a cell phone?
Roy Clay Senior was a Silicon Valley pioneer who served as the R&D director of this multinational computer company where he helped launch the careers of many other African Americans who pursued careers in video games.
Hint: This company is known for their printers.
What is Hewlett Packard?
This film was the first time Eddie Murphy played multiple characters in the same film, which become a trademark of his.
Hint: Let your soul gloooo!
What is Coming to America?
This is the holiday celebrating the end of slavery after the announcement of abolition was made in Galveston, Texas.
What is Juneteenth (June 19th)?
In November of 1968, she becomes the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Hint: In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Note: She was also the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and was the first woman to appear in a United States presidential debate.
Marc Dean held three of the nine original patents for this electronic device released in 1981 that evolved to be one of the most common platforms for video games.
Hint: Not an Apple, but a …
What is the IBM personal computer (PC)?
Ken Coleman, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and former captain in the U.S. Air Force, was the Vice President of Product Development for this American video game publishing company that created one of top FPS games in the 80s.
Hint: The makers of Call of Duty.
What is Activision?
The TV series “Martin” is based in this city.
What is Detroit?
This year will mark the 150th anniversary of black men gaining the right to vote from this amendment to the US constitution.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Note: 50 years later, the 19th Amendment gave black women (women in general) the right to vote.
Months before Rosa Parks, this 15-year old student remained in her seat. She was also one of the four main plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle: the court case that successfully overturned bus segregation laws in both Montgomery and Alabama.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Note: So why is she not a household name? At the time, the NAACP and other Black organizations felt Rosa Parks made a better icon for the movement than a teenager. As a well-known and respected adult with the right look, Rosa Parks was seen as someone that would attract more support for the cause. However the struggle to end segregation was often fought by young people, more than half of which were women.
On March 7, 1989, Kenneth J. Dunkley was granted a patent for this invention that spawned the creation of portable devices that offer enhanced viewing of dimensional entertainment in movie theaters.
Hint: Use these to watch Avatar.
What is 3D glasses?
High quality audio in games is captured using this electronic component that a 1962 invention by James West improved upon.
Hint: Something you drop for a dramatic finish.
What is a microphone?
Name that poet:
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Note: When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published in 1969,she was hailed as one of the first African-American women who were able to publicly discuss their personal lives. Up to that point, black female writers were marginalized to the point that they were unable to present themselves as central characters in the literature they wrote.
In the year 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes this novel about the horrors of slavery. It sold 300,000 copies in its first year, and ignited northern support of abolition.
Hint: A character in this novel also led to a derogatory term for a person regarded as betraying their cultural or social allegiance.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Note: Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. However, many critics believe the novel played a major role in permanently ingraining black stereotypes (like the “Mammy” character) into the American psyche.
In 1967, he is appointed the first black Supreme Court justice by President Lyndon Johnson and served on the court for 24 years.
Hint: In 2017, Reginald Hudlin directed a film focused on one of the first cases of this justice's career -- starring Chadwick Boseman.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Note: Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education.
Otis Boykin created this high precision electrical component used in early TVs and radios. Joy sticks today use a variable type of an electrical component with the same name.
Hint: This component impedes electrical flow.
What is the resistor?
Marc Regis Hannah was co-founder of this Silicon Valley company that developed the first commercially available 3D graphics computers in the world.
Hint: Makers of the Indy, Indigo, Octane and Onyx computers.
What is Silicon Graphics?
Multi-millionaire marketing mogul and ABC Shark Tank investor, Daymond John, created this clothing line in 1989.
Hint: It is For Us...
What is FUBU?
In the year 2000, Alabama became the last state to officially legalize this.
What is interracial marriage?
Note: In 1967, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a black woman, were married in the District of Columbia. When they returned home to Virginia, they were arrested and convicted of violating the state’s anti-miscegenation law. They each faced a year in jail and their case went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court found in favor of the Lovings in the famous trial Loving v. Virginia. They ruled that prohibiting interracial marriage on state and local levels was unconstitutional; this meant that marriages between the races were legal in the country for the first time since 1664.
He is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and the first black billionaire.
Who is Robert L. Johnson?
Born in 1940, this pioneer helped to build the Fairchild Channel F, the first home video game system with interchangeable games.
Hint: This inventor shares a first name with one of the writers of the Seinfeld television show.
Who is Jerry Lawson?
The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion and hundreds of other graphic adventure games were created using this object oriented scripting language created by John Henry Thompson.
Hint: An abbreviated way of saying language.
What is Lingo Programming Language?