Music
This artist is known as the “Queen of Music”
Who is Beyonce?
This fried chicken, greens, and cornbread style of cooking is called this.
What is Soul food?
The leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech 1963.
Who is MLK Jr.
The Marvel movie features Wakanda and King T’Challa.
What is Black Panther?
This West African country is known as the “Gateway to Africa” and has Cape Coast Castle.
What is Ghana?
This artist, known as the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul,” released What’s the 411? in 1992.
Who is Mary J. Blige?
This Caribbean cooking method involves slow-cooking meat over pimento wood and originated with the Taíno and enslaved Africans.
What is Jerk
This 1921 event, sometimes called “Black Wall Street’s destruction,” occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
What is Tulsa Race Massacre
In Get Out, this director blends horror with racial satire to critique liberal racism.
Who is Jordan Peele?
Addis Ababa is the capital of this East African country that was never fully colonized by European powers.
What is Ethiopia?
This Nigerian artist’s album African Giant earned a Grammy nomination and helped globalize Afrobeats.
Who is Burna Boy?
This staple West African dish made from pounded yam or cassava is often served with egusi or okra soup.
What is Fufu?
This Pan-African leader founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and promoted Black economic independence.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This 1997 film starring Denzel Washington depicts the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
What is The Hurricane?
This country became the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence from colonial rule in 1957.
What is Ghana?
This 1970 album by Marvin Gaye addressed social issues like war and environmentalism.
What is What’s Going On?
This Ethiopian dish consists of sourdough flatbread used both as a plate and utensil.
What is Injera?
This 1966 organization, founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, advocated armed self-defense against police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This filmmaker directed Do the Right Thing, a film centered on racial tensions in Brooklyn.
Who is Spike Lee?
This North African country was the site of the ancient city of Carthage, a major rival to Rome.
What is Tunisia?
This genre, pioneered by Fela Kuti, blends jazz, funk, and traditional African rhythms with political messages.
What is Afrobeat?
What is Tanzania?
What is Thieboudienne?
This 1791–1804 revolution led to the first Black republic and was led in part by Toussaint Louverture.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This 1975 film, starring Diana Ross, tells the story of Billie Holiday.
What is Lady Sings the Blues?
This lusophone African country gained independence from Portugal in 1975 and includes the island of Zanzibar in its union.
What is Tanzania?