Food
This classic dessert layers bananas, vanilla wafers, and creamy pudding.
What is banana pudding?
Over 6 million Black people left the South for urban areas in the North, Midwest, and West, escaping systemic violence and seeking economic opportunity.
What is The Great Migration?
This 1992 romantic drama starred Whitney Houston in her film debut alongside Kevin Costner.
What is The Bodyguard?
This Benjamin Banneker invention is the reason we can tell time
What is a clock?
This sitcom follows the Huxtable family and was one of the most popular shows of the 1980s.
What is The Cosby Show?
This versatile orange vegetable can be a candied side on Thanksgiving, fried French fries, or even a pie.
What are sweet potatoes?
This movement of the 1950s and 1960s aimed to end racial discrimination and secure equal rights for Black Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This 2018 Marvel film celebrated African culture and became the highest-grossing film by a Black director.
What is Black Panther?
She invented the hot comb and built one of the first Black-owned million-dollar businesses.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
A group of college students navigate life at a historically Black college, Hillman.
What is A Different World?
This side dish is eaten on New Years Day and is believed to bring good luck, prosperity, and financial fortune in the coming year.
What are black-eyed peas?
This cultural explosion in a New York city celebrated Black art, literature, music (jazz and blues), and intellectualism.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This director is known for films like Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Spike Lee?
This inventor discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes
Who is George Washington Carver?
This sitcom starred a Philadelphia teenager who moves to Los Angeles to live with his wealthy aunt and uncle
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This soup is made with a dark roux, vegetables, chicken, sausage, and shrimp all served over rice.
What is gumbo?
This 1863 document issued by President Abraham Lincoln declared enslaved people free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
She became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002.
Who is Halle Berry?
This inventor created the prototypes for the traffic signal and gas masks.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This Black family "moved on up" into a luxury apartment building
What is the Jeffersons?
This dish often pairs sautéed shrimp with a buttery, cheesy cornmeal porridge.
What is shrimp and grits?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg.
What is The Color Purple?
Lonnie G. Johnson invented this water toy which became one of the best-selling toys in history.
What is the water gun?
This sitcom features a group of dedicated, passionate, Philadelphia elementary school teachers
What is Abbott Elementary?