Film
This award-winning horror film about a Black photographer meeting his white girlfriend's family was Jordan Peele's directorial debut.
What is Get Out?
This Megan Thee Stallion remix featuring Beyonce became Stallion's first Top 10 hit in the US.
What is Savage?
This woman is the first Black VP of the US and is of African American and South Asian decent.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This comedian turned actor has been noted for playing multiple different characters in the same film. He was also an SNL cast member.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
This Black musician from the Barbados decided to take a break from music and start her own makeup company, Fenty.
Who is Rihanna?
He was the first African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court and is the namesake of UCSD's third college.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This author popularized the term "anti-racist" in 2020 with his best-seller "How to be an Anti-Racist."
Who is Ibram X Kendi?
This NASA mathematician calculated the trajectory for the first American in space and her story was documented in both the book and film Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 2015 rap/hip-hop biopic depicted the rise and fall of the gangsta rap group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre.
What is Straight Outta Compton?
Diana Ross is a part of this Motown female singing group.
Who are the Supremes?
This Supreme Court ruling declared racial segregation in American public schools unconstitutional, finding that "separate but equal" education is inherently unequal.
What is Brown v Board of Education of Topeka?
This Black activist was jailed in 1970 for over a year before being acquitted of all charges. She is now a professor at UC Santa Cruz, and grew up in Birmingham, AL.
Who is Angela Davis?
She is the 1st Black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
Ava Duvernay directed this Netflix documentary special focusing on the prison system, and won multiple critic's choice documentary awards.
What is 13th?
Considered a prodigy who rose to stardom despite not starting ballet until the age of 13 and became the first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Who is Misty Copeland?
This civil rights activist organized the 1963 March on Washington and served in the US House of Representatives as a Congressman from Georgia for 33 years.
Who is John Lewis?
Was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
This Black American astrophysicist is the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC and was awarded the Stephen Hawkin Medal for Science Communication in 2017.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
This comedian is the longest-tenured member of Saturday Night Live (and nominated for 4 Emmy's for this role) and host of the recurring sketch "Black Jeopardy"
Who is Kenan Thompson?
Ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President, and in 1968, became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This lawyer, activist, and philosopher coined the term "Intersectionality" (a way to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap) in 1989.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
She manufactured beauty products in the early 1900s for other African-American women using formulas she developed after working for a pharmacist who taught her chemistry.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?