Screen Legends
This actor portrayed a choir director with a complicated past in The Preacher’s Wife.
Denzel Washington
This Motown legend’s version of "Someday at Christmas" is considered one of the most powerful holiday protest songs ever recorded.
Stevie Wonder
Many families celebrate this pan-African holiday that begins on December 26th and lasts for seven days.
Kwanzaa
While many Americans serve pumpkin pie, this vibrant orange tuber is the base for a staple dessert in many Black households during the holidays.
Sweet Potato Pie
This Motown group featured Michael Jackson as its youngest member.
The Jackson 5
In the classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947), a young Natalie Wood plays Susan Walker, a girl who doesn't believe in this figure (and neither do we!)
Santa Claus
This genre often dominates Christmas playlists in Black households.
Gospel Music
This relative always asks personal questions at the wrong time.
The Auntie
This baked dish is often judged hardest at Black holiday dinners.
Mac & Cheese
This 1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teenager from West Philadelphia.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
This 2013 film stars Taye Diggs, Nia Long, and Morris Chestnut as a group of college friends reuniting for a dramatic Christmas dinner.
The Best Man Holiday
This 1970 Jackson 5 hit features a young Michael Jackson warning his siblings that he saw someone kissing their mother.
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Founded in 1914 at Howard University, this fraternity is known for its principles of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service.
What is Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
In many Southern and Black families, eating these "eyed" legumes on New Year’s is said to bring good luck and prosperity.
Black-eyed peas
This artist is known as the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.”
Mary J. Blige
This actress and singer starred as an angel named Julia alongside Denzel Washington in the 1996 hit The Preacher’s Wife.
Whitney Houston
Nat King Cole’s iconic 1946 recording of "The Christmas Song" begins with these four famous words.
"Chestnuts roasting on an open..."
The colors red, black, and green are commonly associated with this cultural movement.
Pan-Africanism
This British holiday dish involves a sausage wrapped in bacon; the name suggests a cozy animal.
Pigs in a Blanket
This classic film features the line, “Bye, Felicia.”
Friday
Eartha Kitt famously purred her way through this 1953 holiday hit, asking for a sable, a light blue convertible, and a yacht
Santa Baby
T or F: Chris Brown's 1970 track "This Christmas" has become known as the "Black National Anthem" of Christmas music.
False:
Donny Hathaway's
CBreezy was born May 5, 1989
This New Year’s Eve tradition traces back to the Emancipation Proclamation taking effect on January 1, 1863.
Watch Night service
This iconic Southern "trifle" descendant reached its modern form in the 1920s only after a specific Nabisco brand began printing the recipe on its yellow boxes.
Banana Pudding
Despite differences in style, technology, and sound, both Old School and New School artists have used this as a primary tool for storytelling and cultural expression.
Music