History
What amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Founded in the 1800s by formerly enslaved people from the United States, this African country became a home for freed African Americans.
What is Liberia?
This holiday, celebrated for December 26 to January 1 was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 to honor African heritage and culture
What is Kwanzaa?
This Kenyan-Mexican actress won an Academy Award for her role in 12 Years a Slave (2013) and advocates for representation, self-love, and colorism awareness in Hollywood.
Who is Lupita Nyong’o?
This 2024 album by Beyoncé highlights Black roots of country music.
What is Cowboy Carter?
This movement was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer, whose mission is to highlight discrimination experienced by Black people.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This staple food, made from ground corn, has roots in West African cooking and became a key dish in Southern African American cuisine.
What is cornbread?
This city is known for its rich Creole culture, unique cuisine like gumbo and po’ boys, and historic French Quarter.
What is New Orleans?
She became the first African American woman to travel in space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This Afrobeats star, managed by Jonzing World and Mavin Records, reached a global milestone by landing on the Billboard Global 200 with “Calm Down.”
Who is Rema?
What is the name of the novel that earned Alice Walker a Pulitzer Prize? (Also a movie)
What is The Color Purple?
A religion created from blending African, Native American, and Christian traditions.
What is Voodoo or Santería?
This style of cooking originated during slavery as enslaved Africans created meals from limited ingredients, turning them into meaningful cultural dishes.
What is soul food?
He directed Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther, shaping modern African American storytelling in film.
Who is Ryan Coogler?
This music genre emerged in the 1960s, blending ska, rocksteady, R&B, jazz, and calypso.
What is reggae?
This Black women often called the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” co founded the NAACP and worked tirelessly against lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This term describes the blending of African, European, and indigenous cultures in diaspora societies.
What is creolization?
This traditional hairstyle, featuring small coiled knots twisted close to the scalp, originated with the Zulu people of Southern Africa and symbolizes status, cultural identity, and heritage in Black communities.
What are Bantu knots?
In 1966, this revolutionary activist co-founded the Black Panther Party to confront police brutality and challenge systemic racism.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
Thomas Dorsey is considered the father of this kind of music.
What is gospel?
Who started Black History Month?
Who was Dr. Carter Woodson?
This linguistic style evolved from interactions between enslaved Africans who spoke diverse African languages and English.
What is AAVE (African American Vernacular English) or Ebonics?
This phonetic, spelled-out language allowed enslaved African Americans to communicate secretly by substituting consonants with code words while speaking normally.
What is Tutnese?
She became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968 and famously declared she was “unbought and unbossed.”
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Nicknamed “Satchmo,” this jazz musician transformed the role of the trumpet, popularized scat singing, and helped bring New Orleans jazz to the world.
Who is Louis Armstrong?