African American First
She is the 1st African American to be ranked #1 in the world in Tennis.
Who is Venus Williams
These are the only 2 all female HBCU's.
What are Bennett and Spellman
He is the 44th President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama
This amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of color or previous conditions of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment
He is the leading rusher in NFL history.
In 1982 this group released the single "The Message".
Who are Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5
King T'Challa is from this mythical country in Africa.
What is Wakanda
He was a scientist and loved to study plants. He developed over 300 ways to use peanuts!
Who is George Washington Carver
This fashion designer is a Harlem couturier known as the king of “knockoffs”. Making a name for himself in the late 80s when opened his boutique in Harlem. Self-taught tailor provided rap culture with its signature style working with artist such as LL Cool J, James Jackson, Floyd Mayweather.
Who is Dapper Dan
These 2 Universities have a friendly fued about who the "real' HU is.
What are Howard and Hampton.
She is the 1st Vice President of African American decent.
Who is Kamala Harris
Who said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
What is golf great Tiger Woods given first name?
What is Eldrik
Nas released his debut album in 1994. The album was called.
What is Illmatic
This R&B group has not made an album in over 40 years but continue to sell out tours. They are known for cookout/party anthems, like “Before I Let Go”.
Who are Frankie Beverly and Maze
He received a patent for his invention of the mop.
Who is Stewart Thomas
Married to music mogul Russell Simmons, Kimora Lee Simmons created a brand to give women a much-needed voice in the booming streetwear industry. The brand offered short mini skirts, low rise jeans, slinky crop tops, and a bedazzled curvy car logo.
What is Baby Phat
Who was the 1st African American to be elected in to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
Who is Charlie Pride
This HBCU's homecoming has been given the title of GHOE (Greatest Homecoming on Earth).
What is North Carolina A&T State University! AGGIE PRIDE!!!!!!
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
This Civil Rights activist was also the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi. He as later murdered in his own driveway.
Who is Medgar Evers?
He is the only African American man to win a singles Wimbledon title.
Who is Arthur Ashe
Considered by many to be the greatest rapper of all time. How old was the Notorious BIG when he was tragically killed?
What is 24
A Different World was an iconic TV show that debuted in September of 1987. It was inspired by student life at historically black colleges and universities. The name of the fictitious HBCU that students on a Different World attended was?
What is Hillman
After accidentally slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
Who is George Crum
This artist was the first Black photographer hired by Life magazine. He was known for 20th century photography. His photojournalism during the 1940s to the 1970s reveals important aspects of Black American culture, focusing on issues of civil rights, poverty, race relations and urban life.
Who is Gordan Parks
He is the 1st African American quarterback to lead his team to victory in the SuperBowl.
Who is Doug Williams
What is Alabama?
He is a political activist, minister and politician who was a Democratic candidate for President in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
He was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
In the 1996 Olympic games, he became the 1st athlete to win both the 200 and 400 meter races.
Who is Michael Johnson
According to rapper Dres of the group Black Sheep, what should you do if your train falls of the track?
What is pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!
In the sitcom Martin, Martin had a huge crush on his former teacher played by Beverly Johnson. The teacher came on to Martin, which caused Gina to almost put hands on her! That teachers name was?
Who is Ms. Trinidad
She invented the folding cabinet bed.
Who is Sarah Goode
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His work in collage led the New York Times describe him as “the nation’s foremost collage artist”. He has a park named after him in Uptown Charlotte.
Who is Romare Bearden
He is the 1st African American Billionaire.
Who is Bob Johnson?
What is Tennessee State?
This long-term Congressman encouraged his followers to get into good trouble, necessary trouble, and help the soul of America.
Who is John Lewis?
A group of Civil Rights activist both African American and white who participated in bus trips through the American south in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals were known as?
Who were the Freedom Riders
The NBA Finals MVP award is named after this former NBA great.
Who is Bill Russell
Tupac Shakur began his career as a roadie, back up dancer, and MC for this hip hop group before eventually branching off to make it big as a solo artist.
Who is Digital Underground
In the sitcom Different Strokes, which ran from 1978 to 1984, what did Arnold (played by Gary Coleman) never know?
What is what Willis was talking bout
Name two inventions by Garret A. Morgan
What are the traffic signal and the gas mask
She played Dorothy in the Broadway musical The Wiz?
Who is Stephanie Mills
In 1997 she became the 1st African American model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Who is Tyra Banks?
This is the 1st HBCU ever established.
What is Cheyney University?
This NJ senator contributed to the economic growth of the state in ways that have not been experienced since the 1960’s. He helped with crime, affordable housing and green spaces.
Who is Corey Booker?
Before converting to the Nation of Islam and becoming a major force in the African American fight against injustice and inequality, Malcom X's last name was actually?
What is Little
This boxer was known as the Brown Bomber.
Who is Joe Louis
After a young fan was killed after one of his concerts, this hop hop legend started the Stop the Violence Movement and in 1989 led an all-star group of MCs in creating the hit song Self-Destruction
Who is KRS-ONE
She is known as the “Queen of Soul”.
Who is Aretha Franklin
He invented the railway telegraphy.
Who is Granville T. Woods
She was the 1st African American woman to sing with the Metropolitan Opera?
Who is Leontyne Price
She is the 1st African American woman to be a major party nominee for State Governor.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This state has the highest number of students enrolled in HBCU's.
What is North Carolina
Appointed by President Biden this retired general became the 1st Black Defense Secretary.
Who is Lloyd Austin?
These 2 gentlemen are the only 2 African American NFL head coaches to ever face each other in the SuperBowl.
The first hip hop artist to headline at the Glasonbury Festival in 2008
Who is Jay-Z
They got married in the Best Man: The Final Chapter.
Who are Quinton and Shelby
He invented a machine to make shoes quickly?
Who is Jan Ernest Matzeliger
This painting by Ernie Barnes was made famous as the cover of a Marvin Gaye album and appeared in the closing credits of the sitcom “Good Times.”
What is Sugar Shack
He is the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
This is the 1st Fraternity to be founded on an HBCU campus.
What is Omega Psi Phi?
He was the 1st African American in the United States to be elected Governor of a state.
Who is Lawrence Douglas Wilder?
What is the name of the bridge were the brutal “bloody Sunday” attacks occurred on civil rights marchers during the 1st march for voting rights?
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge
This Hall of Fame baseball player had the nickname of Mr. October.
Who is Reggie Jackson
His single Cop Killer was banned from many radio stations due to the violent lyrics
In the 1978 movie The Wiz, the evil witch Evilene did not want anybody to bring her?
He invented the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb.
Who is Lewis Latimer
This artist could read and write at the age of 4 and was already speaking 3 languages at the age of 8. By the age of 28 this artist had created 800 paintings and 1500 drawings.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is 10?
She made history when she became the 1st African American woman to win a seat in Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This Pan-Africanist civil rights activist was born in Massachusetts and was also a sociologist and historian. He taught and believed in a concept called the Talented 10th for the negro race.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
This baseball great finished his career with 755 homeruns.
Henry "Hank' Aaron
This is the 1st rap album to go platinum.
What is Raising Hell by Run-DMC
In the movie Friday, Craig was fired for?
He worked at NASA and built spacecrafts. He is also famous for inventing the super soaker water gun.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson
This dance company was founded in 1958 and remains one of the world’s premier modern dance companies to this day.
What is the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
In 1990, he became the 1st African American to be elected President of the Harvard Law Review.
Who is Barack Obama?
This HBCU is the number 1 producer of black aerospace engineers in the United States.
What is Tuskegee University?
In 1879, he became the 1st African American Senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Before Rosa Parks, this 15-year-old girl refused to sit at the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Claudette Colvin
Debi Thomas is known as a champion in which sport?
What is Figure Skating
In the early stages of hip hop, in addition to having a dope beat, a b-boy stance, and a fat gold chain, every MC had to have some fly back-up dancers. The back-up dancers for Big Daddy Kane were?
Who are Scoop and Scrap
Viola Davis recently joined the ranks of artists who have won these prestigious awards.
What is a an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT)
This internationally famous Dr. and member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. is known for inventing the blood bank.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
This dancer made history as the first African American female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland