Inventors
Responsible for inventing over 300 peanut products (and 118 sweet potato products, etc.).
What is George Washington Carver?
The name for cuisine cooked, eaten, and central to African-American culture.
What is soul food?
Marvin Gaye died this way.
What is he was murdered?
The year enslavement actually ended (The first Juneteeth).
Higher or Lower!
What is 1865?
The number of people who died in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
what was four?
(Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair)
The official name of "The Black National Anthem" and its inventor.
EXTRA 100 POINTS: The composer of music for the lyrics.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and what is N.A.A.C.P. leader James Weldon Johnson (1900, turn of the century)?
EXTRA 100 POINTS: What is James Weldon Johnson's Brother, John Rosamond Johnson?
The vegetable grits are made out of.
What is corn?
The year Hip Hop was invented.
Higher or Lower!
What is 1973?
Two hip-hop artists known for controversy due to affiliations with trump.
Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, etc.
The allegéd reason the three white murderers of Emmett Till gave for the violent attack.
What is "he was accused of whistling at, flirting with, or touching a white girl's hand"?
This person invented the traffic light.
A food created out of necessity because African Americans lacked access to food resources.
What is Ox tails, Chitlins, Chicken liver, hominy grits, crayfish, pigs misc. etc.?
The first three lines of "Lift Every Voice and Sing".
What is:
Lift every voice and sing,
'Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
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Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list'ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on 'til victory is won?
This amendment to the constitution legalizes enslavement.
What is the 13th Amendment?
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers violently attacked civil rights demonstrators at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
What is Bloody Sunday?
3 black women considered inventors.
What is Lyda D. Newman, Madame C.J. Walker, Robyn Fenty, Marie Van Brittan Brown, Clara C. Frye, Edna Adan Ismail, Patricia Bath, Alice H. Parker, Sarah E. Goode, Marjorie Joyner, Judy Woodford Reed, Madison Maxey, Janet Rita Emerson, Bessie Blount Griffin, etc.?
Three local African, Afro-American, or Caribbean restaurants.
Rhythm and Wraps, Slades, Suya Joint, Flames, etc.
The television show where the first televised inter-ethnic kiss (between someone of African descent and someone of European-descent) occured.
What is Star Trek?
This was O.J. Simpson's lawyer.
What is Johnnie Cochran or Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr.?
A revolutionary who inspired many members of the Black Panther Party.
What is Malcolm X or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz?
This was created by and for Afro- and Latin-descending femme queens, butch queens, and other LGBTQ+ members as a response to racism in drag spaces, evolving into "houses" as chosen families where houses "walk" categories from trophies, cash prizes, and esteem becoming notably most prominent in cities such as New York and Philidelphia.
EXTRA 100 POINTS: Explain or demonstrate all 5 elements of vogue.
What is Ball or Ballroom culture?
EXTRA 100 POINTS: What is Ball culture informed Madonna, it informed Beyonće, it informs everything. Especially vogue, of which the 5 elements are: Hands, Duckwalk, Catwalk, Floorwork or Floor performance, and Spins and Dips.
For Kwanzaa, the placemat and the bowl of fruits and vegetables placed on top serving as a symbolic foundation for the holiday (Swahili).
A. Mkeka and Mazao
B. bol and assiette
C. bakuli and sahani
D. jua and mwezi
What is the Mkeka (placemat) and the Mazao (bowl)?
The second largest movie industry in the world by volume and its year of creation.
What is Nollywood and the 1960s?
3 Islander (excluding Australia and East Asia), African, or Latin countries where the US has a military base.
What is Cuba, Aruba, curaçao, Honduras, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Somalia, Bahamans, Djibouti, Cameroon, or Egypt?
The first person of African American descent to run for U.S. president.
What is Shirley A. Chisholm?