Contemporary Black Writers
This Black author's book, The Hate U Give, was published in 2017 and was number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list for 50 weeks! A movie of the same title and based on the book was released in 2018.
Who is Angie Thomas?
This Black woman is the 49th Vice President of the United States and the first woman, Black person, and Asian to hold the office.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Martin Luther King, Jr is a graduate of this all-male HBCU in Atlanta, GA.
What is Morehouse College?
This Black former NFL quarterback for the 49ers began kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice and police brutality during the 2016 preseason.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
Within the realm of DEI, this phrase is used to describe someone who builds relationships with people of color and other white people to confront and eradicate racism.
What is White Ally?
This Black author won the National Book Award in 2014 for her best-known novel, Brown Girl Dreaming.
Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
This Black woman ran for governor in GA in 2018 and in the same year founded Fair Fight to combat voter suppression.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This all female HBCU is part of the Atlanta University Center Consortium along with Morehouse College, the Morehouse School of Medicine and Clark Atlanta.
What is Spelman College?
Giving an inaccurate perspective of a culture, reinforcing stereotypes and/or not giving credit or compensation from the original creators of a cultural element may be examples of this.
What is Cultural Appropriation?
These are common examples of health disparities based on social factors, including race/ethnicity.
What are mortality, life expectancy, chronic illnesses, lack of access to care and uninsured/underinsured?
This Black author wrote the 2019 bestselling novel, The Water Dancer, and won the 2015 National Book Award for his nonfiction work, Between the World and Me.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
This Black woman was the first female to run for president on the Democratic ticket back in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The National Science Foundation has ranked this HBCU in Washington, DC the top producer of African-American undergraduates who later earn science and engineering doctoral degrees. Mrs. Douglas is a graduate of this school.
What is Howard University?
This framework for legal analysis of systemic racism was created in the late 1970s and early 1980s by legal scholars of color, Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Richard Delgado and is now considered a highly controversial academic study in K-12 education.
What is Critical Race Theory?
In the realm of DEI, this term is used to describe overlapping identities and the impact of those multiple identities on one's day-to-day life experiences.
What is Intersectionality?
This Black author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice! First for The Underground Railroad in 2017 and again for The Nickel Boys in 2020.
Who is Colson Whitehead?
These Black women: London Breed, Lori Lightfoot, Muriel Bowser, and LaToya Cantrell, share an important role in politics.
Who are mayors of major cities/districts in the United States?
London Breed - San Francisco
Lori Lightfoot - Chicago
Muriel Bowser - Washington, DC
LaToya Cantrell - New Orleans
This HBCU in Louisiana is top ranked for academics and for having the largest non-Black student population, with 10% of its student body identifying as Asian, 4% as White, and a little over 2% as Hispanic.
What is Xavier University?
On March 2, 1955 at the age of 15, this virtually unknown Black, female civil rights activist was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, 9 months before Rosa Parks did.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This piece of legislation, signed into law in NYS on July 3, 2019, makes Black hair discrimination illegal and prohibits schools from enforcing grooming policies that restrict natural hair styles.
What is the C.R.O.W.N. Act?
This Black author won the Stonewall Book Award in 2019 for their debut novel, Hurricane Child. Their 2020 YA novel, Felix Ever After, tells the story of a Black, queer, transgender teen.
Who is Kacen Callender?
This Black woman represented Utah's 4th Congressional District from 2015 to 2019 and is the first Black person from Utah and the only Black, Republican female ever to hold a seat in Congress.
Who is Mia Love?
Number one ranked high school recruit, Travis Hunter, committed to play football under Deion Sanders at this HBCU in Mississippi.
What is Jackson State University?
The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was created in 2015 by this Black, female activist to bring awareness to longstanding inequities in Hollywood overall, and specifically the lack of diversity within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Who is April Reign?
Although still possibly the most taboo word to say in the United States, within certain communities of color, particularly hip hop, this two letter to one letter change in the N-Word has reappropriated the word from a racial slur to a term of endearment.
What is "er" to "a"?