Diaspora
This country, established in 1804 was founded as a result of first successful slave rebellion in the Americas.
Haiti
This '90s sitcom featured six professional Black women navigating love and life in Brooklyn, and starred Queen Latifah
Living Single
This 1993 novel features a Black teenage prophet navigating climate collapse, a Trump-like figure and social breakdown in a near-future U.S.
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
The name of Craig's cousin and the actor who played the famous role in the 1995 movie Friday.
Smokey and Chris Tucker
The film starring Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg as stoner buddies premiered in the year 2012.
Mac and Devin Go to High School
The author of the 1961 book Wretched of the Earth, a foundational text in postcolonial studies.
Frantz Fanon
This radical health collective, active in the Bronx in the 1970s, offered free medical services and fought against urban neglect and racism.
The Young Lords
This Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated for Black economic independence and repatriation to Africa.
Marcus Garvey
This member of the Wu-Tang Clan frequently rapped about the Supreme Mathematics and the Five Percent Nation.
RZA
These two US states were the first to legalize recreational cannabis use.
California and Washington
This US Civil rights leader, born on the island of Trinidad before relocating to New York when he was 11, played a prominent role in both the Civil Rights & Black Power Movements of the 1950s, 60s, & 70s.
Kwame Ture or Stokely Carmichael
This predominantly Black community in Manhattan was cleared out in 1857 to make space for Central Park.
Seneca Village
The year the crime bill whose key features included tough on crime measures such as "Three Strikes" which led to the uptick in drug related arrests.
1994
This animated stoner romance movie came out in 2022 and starred a famous rapper who also directed and produced the film. What was his name and the name of the film?
Kid Cudi, Entergalactic
This fragrant set of chemical compounds, found in cannabis and other plants, gives strains their distinct smell and flavor.
Terpenes
This Brazilian martial art, born from enslaved Africans resisting colonial oppression, blends dance, music, and combat.
Capoeira
This player led the New York Knicks to their last NBA title, earning finals MVP in the process.
Willis Reed
The country that Malcolm X visited on his hajj to Mecca in 1964 where he met with other Muslim leaders to discuss how their struggles overlapped
Palestine
This Harlem-born legend flipped dance into a whole movement, founding a dance company in 1958 that’s still one of the most iconic in the world today.
Alvin Ailey
This critically acclaimed TV show focused on a drug dealer/rapper and his rap career alongside his three friends and their surreal experiences as African-Americans
Atlanta
Since his rise to power in 2022, this African leader has become a symbol of Pan Africanism by helping form the Alliance of Sahel States and is famous for surviving nearly 20 assassination attempts in the process.
Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso
This openly gay civil rights leader and labor organizer helped lead the 1963 March on Washington and spent his early years organizing in Harlem. *Hint a movie based on his life came out recently
Bayard Rustin
These Indigenous American tribes, pre-European colonialism, called home the land that is now the state of New York. (NAME TWO)
Lenape, Mohicans, Iroquois (Confederacy)
This HBO series which premiered in 2020 explores Black ancestral trauma, magic, and Afrofuturism within a Jim Crow-era setting.
Lovecraft Country
Followers of the Rastafari movement believe in a spiritual connection to cannabis and also look at this Ethiopian emperor as the divine figure of "Jah"
Emperor Haile Selassie