Film
This show business family is responsible for notable Black classics such as Little Man, Major Payne, and White Chicks.
The Wayans
Kendrick Lamar sampled Bruno Mars' "24K Magic" in this song
Loyalty
This man is known as "the father of African American Art"
Aaron Douglas
This is one of several line dance is almost guaranteed to be played at the cookouts. Everybody clap your hands!
Cha-Cha Slide
This writer was one of the first to use jazz rhythms in his works, becoming an early innovator of the literary art form jazz poetry.
Langston Hughes
This Oscar- and Emmy- award winning director, actor, writer, and producer founded Monkeypaw Productions.
Jordan Peele
This artists has been nominated for 99 Grammys, has won 32, but has never won "Album of the Year"
Queen Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter
This Atlanta based artists and former Ink Master contestant is credited with creating the tattoo art style "Afro Americana"
Aaron Davis-Holloway
This style of dance is known as one of the five elements of hip hop, and started in New York City during the Bronx fires.
Breakdancing
This acclaimed American poet, author and activist was often referred to as a spokesman for African Americans and women through her many works
Maya Angelou
This Black actress of nearly 40 years and at least 54 films has only received one honorary Academy Award and only been nominated twice.
Angela Bassett
This rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer is also a flutist.
Andre 3000
This was a Black nationalism movement that focused on music, literature, drama, and the visual arts made up of Black artists and intellectuals, from 1965-1975.
The Black Arts Movement
This woman made history as the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.
Misty Copeland
This comic book writer, film director and producer is famous for writing "Black Panther" from 2005 - 2009. They were also the first President of Entertainment for BET.
Reginald "Reggie" Hudlin
Upon being hired in 1957, this person became the first African American artist at The Walt Disney Company. This figure worked on films such as Sleeping Beauty, Mulan, and The Jungle Book.
Floyd Norman
Pharrell Williams was a member of this American rock and hip hop band of the 90s and 2000s.
N.E.R.D
This figure was the first professional African American and Native American sculptor.
Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis
This American-born French dancer and singer was also a WWII spy and an activist.
Josephine Baker
This era was the blossoming of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history.
The Harlem Renaissance
This person, born into slavery, is known as the first major African American filmmaker, directing and producing 44 films between 1919 and 1948.
Oscar Micheaux
This Jamaican immigrant is credited as being the founder of hip-hop.
DJ Kool Herc
Jay-Z and Beyoncé spent 4.47 million dollars to purchase a painting by this famous Black artist, who also briefly dated Madonna.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
This “matriarch” of Black dance, was a dancer and choreographer and the first to open a Black dance company in the 1930s that performed all over the world.
Katherine Dunham
This author is best known for his reflections on his experience as an openly gay Black man in white America.
James Baldwin