Black Music
Black Movies
Black Literature
Black Art
100
The 2025 Superbowl Halftime Show viewed by over 130 million U.S., the highest ever in Superbowl history, featured this artist.
Kendrick Lamar
100
As of January 2025, this Black actor is the highest-grossing actor of all time, with a total of $27.7 billion in box office revenue. He's known for his roles in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises.
Samuel L. Jackson
100
Playwright, August Wilson's award-winning work was adapted to film in 2016 with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis as the leads.
Fences
100
This spoken word artist performed his first live open mic feature since the Pandemic at Lift Every Voice on November 23, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rainmaker
200
She was the first female rapper to go platinum with her 1994 debut album Funkdafied.
Da Brat
BONUS: Who is the highest-selling female rapper of all-time?
200
Halle Berry made history as the first Black woman to win Best Actress in 2002 for this movie.
Monster's Ball
200
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for this Award–winning play.
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
200
This artist often uses an alias WAK. His work (see below) is world renowned yet his roots are in Chicago, IL.
The Pamper Party
Kevin A. Williams
300
This famous singer/activist was the first African American singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Marian Anderson
300
Though nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, this actor/director's work BlacKKKlansman won the 2019 Best Adapted Screenplay.
Spike Lee
300
This was the first newspaper that was owned and operated by Black people in the United States. It was published in New York City from 1827 to 1829.
Freedom's Journal,1827-1829
300
This American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score.
Gordon A. Parks
400
Beyonce is added to the list of Black artists taking the Grammy for Album of the Year. How many Black artists did the same in previous years?
A. 3
B. 11
C. 22
B. 11
400
According to Forbes list in 2023, this living legend was one of the highest paid actors and the only Black actor on the list. With such works as Fences, Glory, and St. Elsewhere, his career spans almost 5 decades.
Denzel Washington
400
Commonly considered the “foremost Black woman in sci-fi literature,” this is the author of “Bloodchild” and "Kindred."
Octavia Butler
400
The first exhibition of a Black artist's work in a major museum was The Sculpture of William Edmondson, which opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in what year?
A. 1974
B. 1912
C. 1937
C. 1937
500
Name two of the six black artists included in the first group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees in 1986.
James Brown, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke,
500
This 2016 film was the first with an all-Black cast to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was also the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture.
Moonlight
500
This Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his essay in Runner’s World about the life and death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mitchell S. Jackson
500
The most expensive artwork by an American artist ever sold at auction was painted by a black man. A large-scale canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat was the top lot at Sotheby's contemporary art auction for this amount.
Sold for over $110,000,000.