Black Youth
This 6 year old became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
In 2008 at this man was elected as the first Black president.
Who is Barack Obama?
This is the name for someone who mixes and plays music at a hip hop party.
What is a DJ?
Laila Edwards is the first Black woman to play for the U.S. Olympic team in this sport.
What is hockey?
This 2023 animated superhero movie features a Black/Latino teenager as its lead and explores multiverse themes.
What is Spider‑Man: Across the Spider‑Verse?
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
The March on Washington is where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech.
What is the I Have a Dream Speech?
Name two ways hip hop culture has influenced everyday life beyond music.
What is fashion, art, language, media, dance?
Vonetta Flowers, an athlete of this sport helped make the sport more visible to Black youth from her gold medal run at the 2002 winter olympics.
What is the bobsled?
Anika Noni Rose voiced this Disney princess.
Who is Tiana?
At age 15 she refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
In 2024 at the Paris Summer Olympics, this style of dance debuted as an olympic sport.
What is breaking?
This woman became the first hip hop artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys (1999). You might know her from her hit Doo Wop (That Thing).
Who is Lauryn Hill?
In 1988 Debi Thomas became the first Black American woman to win a medal in this sport, earning bronze at the Calgary Winter Olympics.
What is figure skating?
Pixar’s first feature with a Black lead character.
What is Soul?
The Little Rock Nine, a group of Black teenagers who in 1957 integrated Central High School in this state.
What is Arkansas?
White supremacists destroyed one of the most prosperous Black communities in the U.S., known as “Black Wall Street" in 1921.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
Hip Hop originated in this city. Extra points if you can name the borough.
What is New York? What is the Bronx?
Shani Davis’ gold medal in 2006 in this event made him the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual Winter Olympic event.
What is speed skating?
This person directed the 2018 hit film Black Panther.
Alena Morse, a young teen entrepreneur, created this kind of healthy alternative candy.
What is a lollipop?
The Voting Rights Act protected Black Americans’ right to votein this year.
What is 1965?
Hip hop culture includes these four foundational elements.
What is DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti art?
Jordan Greenway was the first Black man on U.S. men’s team for which sport?
What is hockey?
This 2025 movie by Ryan Coogler mixes horror, history, and blues music to explore the Black experience during segregation.
What is Sinners?