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The city known as the birthplace of hip hop
What is the Bronx, New York?
You can trace the modern traffic light back to Cleveland, Ohio, and the son of two freed slaves
What is Garrett Morgan?
This amendment abolished slavery "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment?
In 1980, Robert Johnson founded the TV station Black Entertainment Television, or BET. In 2001, he sold it and became the United States’ first Black
What is BILLIONAIRE?
first Black woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice
What is Ketanji Brown?
The first African American Major League Baseball player?
What is Jackie Robinson?
Mathematician Katherine J. Johnson, portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the film Hidden Figures, provided calculations crucial to the work of what organization
What is NASA?
the most well-known civil rights activist in America
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
the youngest self-made female billionaire, musician and owner of Fenty
What is Rihanna?
Author of the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
What is Maya Angelou?
Viola Davis became the first Black woman to win a Emmy Award for lead actress in a drama for her work on this killer hit
What is "How to Get Away with Murder?"
He was a scientist and loved to study plants. He developed over 300 ways to use peanuts!
What is George Washington Carver?
Name the anti-slavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass in the 19th century
What is the North Star?
one of the most powerful, wealthy people in show business and, arguably, one of the most influential women in America.
What is Oprah Winfrey?
Barack Obama was senator of this state before his presidency
What is Illinois?
Name Michael Jackson’s debut solo album
What is Off The Wall?
established the first sociology department in the U.S. as an educator and civil rights leader
What is W.E.B Du Bois?
President Abraham Lincoln signed this in 1863 declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The third Black American and the first NBA player to become a Billionaire. He is the first former NBA player and only the second Black American to be the majority owner of an NBA franchise
What is Michael Jordan?
Author and activist’s FBI file contained a whopping 1,884 pages – the biggest file the U.S. federal agency ever compiled on any writer
What is James Baldwin?
First African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year
What is Lauryn Hill?
an engineer who performed spacecraft system design for NASA. He also invented the Super Soaker water gun, the number one selling toy in America in 1991
What is Lonnie G. Johnson?
The black power political organization founded in 1966 to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality, provide civil education, etc
What is the Black Panther Party?
the richest black billionaire is Nigerian, with a net worth of $14 billion (11.5 in 2021).
What is Aliko Dangote?
The journal that gave black scholars the chance to publish articles examining African-American history and culture while also documenting the current black experience in the United States.
What is Journal of Negro History, 1916?