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The successful horror film, Get Out, made this actor and comedian the first black director to have a "debut film reach over $100 million at the box office."
Who is Jordan Peele?
200
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
Located in Auburn, visit this house and national historic landmark to see where this "Moses of her People" lived.
What is the Harriet Tubman Home or the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park?
200
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Who is Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)?
200
Since 1951, this woman's cells known as HeLa cells have continued to be widely used in medical research leading to invaluable medical discoveries.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
400
This recent documentary is based on an unfinished James Baldwin book.
What is I am not your Negro?
400
Since it's opening in 1857, this local public library has "shut out no person on account of their race, complexion, or condition" and "has had African-American patrons including prominent members of the Underground Railroad and the local community."
What is Oswego Public Library?
400
This museum established by an act of Congress in 2003 and opened to the public in 2016, is a part of the Smithsonian Institution.
What is The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture?
400
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
Who is Malcolm X?
400
With a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology, this scientist is the "scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health."
Who is Kizzmekia Corbett?
600
This film won Best Picture Oscar in 2017 and is an adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCarney’s In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
What is Moonlight?
600
This author of the ‘Broken Earth’ trilogy is the only person to have ever won three consecutive HUGO awards for best science fiction novel.
Who is N.K. Jemisin (2016, 2017, & 2018)?
600
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of this project which re-examines the narrative of the history of the descendants of enslaved Black people in America.
What is the 1619 Project?
600
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
600
Because of his race, this "Father of the Blood Bank" was barred from pursuing his interest in blood transfusions at the Mayo Clinic.
Who is Charles Drew?
800
This film starred Gaborey Sidebe and Monique. Its screenwriter, Geoffrey S. Fletcher, became the first African American to win an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
What is Precious?
800
She is the first woman and first African American to be sworn in as the nation's Librarian of Congress.
Who is Carla Hayden?
800
Part of the New York Public Library, this world-renowned research library is "devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences."
What is The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York.
800
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
800
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this HBCU is recognized as one as having the largest number of graduates go on to complete medical school.
What is Xavier University?
1000
This film made director Julie Dash the first African American woman to have a feature film receive general theatrical release in the U.S.
What is Daughters of the Dust?
1000
Octavia Butler wrote this popular novel about a young writer travelling back in time to meet her ancestors living on a plantation in the pre-Civil War south.
What is Kindred?
1000
W.E.B. Du Bois is a graduate of this institution. It is also the home of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research which "supports research on the history and culture of people of African descent."
What is Harvard University?
1000
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
1000
Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebruh are computer scientists working to raise awareness about the biases built into technologies powered by machine thinking.
What is artificial intelligence?