Black History Month
Black History Month is celebrated during this month in the United States.
What is February?
This artist is known as “Queen Bey” and was once part of Destiny’s Child.
Who is Beyoncé?
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This famous desert in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Ice Cube was one of the founding members of which hip-hop group?
N.W.A
He is known for his “I Have a Dream” speech and led the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This TV show follows a wealthy Black family in Bel-Air and stars a character named Will.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This activist and former NFL quarterback took a knee to protest police brutality.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Who is the first Black woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice?
Ketanji Brown
He created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which later became Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, became the highest-grossing Black-led superhero film.
What is Black Panther?
He founded the Tuskegee Institute and was a major voice for Black education in the late 1800s.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This river is the longest in Africa and runs through multiple countries, including Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
This holiday, created in 1966, celebrates African heritage and is observed from December 26 to January 1.
What is Kwanzaa?
Who was the first African American woman to receive a pilot’s license from the National Airmen Association of America in 1921?
Who is Bessie Coleman?
He voiced Simba in The Lion King remake and starred in the community TV show.
Who is Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino)?
A pioneer in science, she became the first Black woman to travel to space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
This African country gained global attention for a genocide that occurred in 1994.
What is Rwanda?
This U.S. city is known as the birthplace of Motown music.
What is Detroit?
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968 and later ran for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1990s sitcom, set at a fictional HBCU, was a spin-off of The Cosby Show.
What is A Different World?
She helped lead the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program and was one of its most influential women.
Who is Ericka Huggins?
The Ghanaian president was one of the first to lead an independent African country and pushed for continental unity.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
Who played Coach Carter in the 2005 film?
Samuel L. Jackson