Inventors
This Queen is a physicist and Ph.D. Her experiments with theoretical physics helped to create the portable fax, caller ID, call waiting, and the fiber-optic cable.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson
This country in East Africa known for its vast wilderness areas and big game hunting. Home to the Serengeti and Kilimanjaro National Parks.
What is Tanzania?
This comedian recently won a Federal District Court trial that ruled in favor for $10 billion lawsuit against Charter Communications for racial discrimination.
Who is Byron Allen?
This King was an African American general surgeon who was one of the first physicians in the U.S. to perform open-heart surgery.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
This Queen holds over 135 patents, primarily in voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP). She currently has over 100 patents under review.
Who is Marian Croak
This country is a multinational state inhabited by more than 250 ethnic groups speaking 500 distinct languages, all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.
What is Nigeria?
This black owned business Founded in 1947 has over 300 full-time and part-time staff members.
In 2004, Wal-Mart recognized this company as their top vendor of the year in their annual report.
Who are the Bronner Bros?
A brilliant chemist who was known for developing an injectable oil extract that treated leprosy until the 1940s.
Who is Alice Augusta Ball?
This Queen created the animated GIF technology. She also played a major role in the emergency of online video, later serving on the senior management team at Hulu.
Who is Lisa Gelobter?
Once home to the richest man in History this country is now the 8th largest country on the continent of Africa
What is Mali
This doctor of law wrote in his book "I read everything that I could find about Thurgood Marshall and confirmed that a single dedicated man could use the law to change society"
Who is Johnnie Cochran?
This King developed the Belzer kidney perfusion machine that preserves a kidney for up to 50 hours from the time it is removed from a donor’s body
Who is Samuel Kountz?
This Queen is an ophthalmologist and laser scientist, invented laserphaco—a device and technique used to remove cataracts and revive patients' eyesight. It is now used internationally
Who is Patricia Bath?
This country was once known as The Akan empire and kingdom from 1701 to 1957, where they were known for having 1 of the strongest Armys in world.
What is Ghana
This private equity fund manager and philanthropist has given away $20,000,000 to the African American National Museum, is helping pretrial detainees that can’t afford bail, he gave $2,500,000 to prostate cancer research for African-American men.
Who is Robert F Smith?
A neurosurgeon who is one of the few surgeons in the U.S. to specialize in brain tumor surgery. He is also known as a prolific campaigner for the funding of cancer treatment.
Who is Keith Black?
This nurse invented the home security system.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
This country has several local calendars. The most widely known is the Ge'ez calendar. It is based on the older Alexandrian or Coptic calendar, which in turn derives from the Egyptian calendar
What is Ethiopia?
The Ceo of Loop is also a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree built and sold a million-dollar business at 21, went on to create Harlem’s first nonprofit business incubator by 24, and then co-founded a venture capital firm that raised over $40 million for minority-owned small businesses.
Who is John Henry?
The first female African-American neurosurgeon in the U.S. In 1981 She was specialized in pediatric neurosurgery and was chief of neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital in Michigan
Who is Alexa Canady?