You Better Sing!
Who made a concert film and named it Homecoming?
Beyonce
Finish this lyric by James Brown, Say it loud...
I'm black and I'm proud
What stimulated the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus
Who is the first woman of Black and Asian descent to be Vice President of the United States?
Kamala Harris
What actress played the character Cleo, in Set It Off?
Queen Latifah
Walter Hawkins launched gospel music into a completely different direction in 1967 when he remixed this "joyous" hymn?
Oh Happy Day
I'm starting with the man in the mirror...
I'm asking him to change his ways
Who was the first black MLB player?
Jackie Robinson
The first Black women to hold the position of Secretary of State was Condoleeza Rice during which presidential administration?
George W Bush
In 1985 film, The Color Purple, what did Celie tell Harpo to do to Sofia?
You told Harpo to beat me?
In 1956, Elvis Presley covered the song "Hound Dog" into an upbeat rock 'n' roll song, but this original singer took a more bluesy approach.
Big Mama Thornton
I got so much honey, the bees envy me, I've got a sweeter song ...
than the birds in the trees
Where did 5000 kids get arrested in order the state to be forced to pay house and feed them instead of making money by having them there.
Birmingham
This civil rights activist has been MIA since 1979 for first - degree murder of a state trooper.
Assata Shakur
In the hit comedy show Martin, what floor did Bruh-Man live on?
5th floor
This record label was created in Memphis 1959 as a more "soulful" counterpart to Motown.
Stax Records
Won't He do it, He said he would
Fight your battles for you/ they gon wonder how you sleep at night
The death of this 15 y/o and the beating of Rodney King sparked the 1992 Los Angeles protests
Latasha Harlins
Wangari Maathai was the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya. She was also the first African woman to win which international prize?
Nobel Peace Prize
In 1988, the TV A Different World was taken in a completely different direction when this person replaced Bill Cosby as the executive producer, who felt like the show was not an accurate description of HBCU life.
Debbie Allen
This genre of blues began to decline in 1928 with the introduction of microphones, making big, deep, booming voices less of a necessity to sing in large theaters.
Vaudeville Blues
Stony the road we trod/ Bitter the chastening rod/ Felt in the days when hope unborn has died
Yet with steady beat/ Have not our weary feet/ Come to the place for which our fathers sighed
Margaret Garner famously killed her own daughter in Cincinnati rather than her experience slavery. As a result of this, Toni Morrison argued that Cincinnati should be the site of which contemporary museum?
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
When Ariana Austin, 33, met lawyer Joel Makonnen, 35, at the pearl nightclub in Washington, D.C., she had no idea that a fairy tale was about to unfold and they later married and she became princess of what country.
Ethiopia
In the 1988 film Coming to America, Eddie Murphy plays the character Akeem Joffer, the crown prince of which fictional African Country?"
Zamunda