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100
This African-American actor was best known for his role as T'Challa in Marvel's Black Panther.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
100
This Black revolutionary party patrolled neighborhoods to protect African-American neighborhoods from acts of police brutality.
Who are the Black Panthers?
100
Today, these are the two most well known Black political leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
100
This form of speech, known by the abbreviation AAVE, is employed by Black Americans and Canadians as the more informal and casual end of a sociolinguistic continuum.
What is African American Vernacular English?
100
This myth perpetuates the idea that you can be racist towards white people.
What is reverse racism?
200
This American talk show host has accumulated a net worth of over 2.5 billion dollars.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
A segregated African-American division of this group worked secretly in WWII to break the commercial codes of Germany and Japan to to find out which companies were doing business with Adolf Hitler and the Japanese corporation Mitsubishi.
Who are the Code Breakers (or Code Girls)?
200
This Black, queer female activist studied French and philosophy at Brandeis University before becoming one of the most influential political and social activists of the modern era.
Who is Angela Davis?
200
This is the sign language equivalent of AAVE.
What is Black American Sign Language?
200
Black children are 5x more likely to die during this athletic/recreational activity—not because of ability, but because of the historic segregation of municipal facilities after the Civil War.
What is swimming?
300
This Kenyan-Mexican actress was featured in Beyonce's musical film "Black is King" for the line in the song "Brown Skin Girl" that said "Pretty like ____ when the cameras close in."
Who is Lupita Nyong'o?
300
This organization was created by leaders including W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people of color and eliminate discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
300
This black congressman and civil rights activist died in 2020. He is considered one of the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is John Lewis?
300
Regional differences within the same language are called this.
What is "dialect?"
300
This term perpetuates the myth that intraracial violence is specific to the Black community.
What is "Black-on-Black crime?"
400
This sixteen year old actress broke the Guiness World Record for the youngest Hollywood executive producer. She's most famously known for her role as Dianne Johnson in ABC's Black-ish.
Who is Marsai Martin?
400
This term is used to describe the dispersal of a population from their original homeland across a larger geopolitical area.
What is "diaspora?"
400
This influential figure fathered Critical Race Theory and coined the term Double Consciousness.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
This is the process of changing the way one speaks depending on the social context.
What is "code-switching?"
400
This term justified the segregation and oppression of Black Americans during the Jim Crow era, but was found unconstitutional in Brown vs Board of Education.
What is "separate but equal?"
500
This actor, comedian, and filmmaker has received Emmy, Academy, and Golden Globe awards for his directing of movies such as "Us" and "Get Out".
Who is Jordan Peele?
500
These three female African-American mathematicians worked at NASA doing the calculations that made it possible for John Glenn to successfully put a US spacecraft into orbit around the earth for the first time. (Name any one of the three!)
Who are Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan?
500
This Black Panther Party Leader is considered by many to have been assassinated by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI for his effectiveness at building a multicultural political organization—including the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, the Young Lords, and an alliance of major Chicago street gangs—that worked to end infighting and mobilize for social change. (As portrayed in the movie forthcoming movie Judas and the Black Messiah out February 12 on HBO Max!)
Who is Fred Hampton?
500
This is the process by which native speakers of different languages create a makeshift communication bridge that eventually develops enough of its own characteristics to become its own language—such as AAVE.
What is the pidgin-creole or creolization process?
500
This man created the myth that race is a biological reality.
Who is Johann Friedrich Blumenbach?