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The first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
Who is Lauren Hill?
One of those Grammys was for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' considered by some people as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.
What player hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times?
Who is Barry Bonds. But there's much controversy around his home-run record because in 2001 when he set it, it was widely believed he taking some kind of performance-enhancing drugs.
SINCE THE GOOD BOOK STATES THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, WHAT NATION IN THE BIBLE HELD THE FIRST BLACK MILLION MAN MARCH?
ETHIOPIA INVASION OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL WITH 1,000,000 BLACK TROOPS
The first African-American to graduate from Harvard University and become a U.S. senator
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
a Republican senator from Mississippi who later became president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is now Alcorn State University.
In 1939, she wasn't able to perform at Constitution Hall because of a "white performers only” policy but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt protested and the singer eventually performed at Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson.
She was was a civil rights pioneer in her own right because she was the first African-American to perform at the White House, Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera.
James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power?
What is Ghost.
Omari Hardwick plays the ruthless drug dealer Ghost in the hit series in Starz.
What was the first historically black college in America?
What is Cheyney University.
Cheyney was founded as the African Institute in February 1837.
WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE BLACK RACES ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE?
Who is Ham, Noah's son.
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
Who is entrepreneur and businessman Garrett Morgan.
He also the inventor of the gas mask. He came up with the stoplight after seeing cars, buggies and people collide at intersections
What is #BlackLivesMatter?
A 21st century U.S. human rights movement centered on legacies of state-sanctioned violence against black people in the U.S. and abroad.
As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes...
What is ballet and poetry
Here's a clue _ Poetic Justice. He studied ballet, too, though he auditioned as a theater major after moving to Baltimore in 1985. If you didn't know, Jada Pinkett Smith attended the school when he did.
These two historically black colleges played in the first college football game between black schools in 1892.
Biddle University, now Johnson C. Smith University, beat Livingstone College 5-0 on Dec. 27, 1892.
WHICH BOOK OF THE BIBLE IS SOLELY DEDICATED TO A BLACK WOMAN?
What is Song of Solomon
In 1996, Kofi Annan became the first black African Secretary Generation of which international organization?
United Nations
BlackLivesMatter has sometimes been referred to as an abolitionist movement. Which of the following statements best describes the role of U.S. abolitionist movements, historically?
Abolitionist movements are not typically focused exclusively on the dismantling of corrupt institutions, but also in building new worlds and equitable alternatives. In other words, abolitionism is as much about creating new systems—as it is about tearing down existing ones.
Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?
What is her calculations that helped NASA’s space program.
Britain first passed an official act to outlaw the institution of slavery in which year?
1833
Who is described as the epitome of beauty and power
Queen Makeda - Queen of Sheba
Which pioneer of hair products became the first black female millionaire in the U.S.?
Sarah Breedlove
In the US, memorials to the Confederacy have been among those targeted. A number of statues of Jefferson Davis have been removed or vandalised. Who was he?
He was the president of the Confederacy. The Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the US Civil War. They formed a new government called the Confederate States of America and chose Jefferson Davis, a senator from Mississippi, to be their president. He decreed the enslavement of “all free Negroes in the Southern Confederacy” and ordered that any African-American soldiers from the Union army who were captured should be returned to slavery. Some see the memorials as an offensive reminder of the country’s history of slavery and racial oppression, while others argue they are markers of US history.
Tommy's job on the martin sitcom.
What is a counselor at the Boys & Girls Club.
Who was one of the greatest African queens in the 15th century?
Queen Amina. Queen of Zaria, Nigeria
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ONLY BLACK APOSTLE OF JESUS CHRIST?
IT WAS A DESCENDENT OF CANAAN THE CURSED, AND HIS NAME WAS SIMON THE CANAANITE WHO CONVERTED TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL TO BECOME A JEW THROUGH THE ARTICLE OF CIRCUMCISION.
Who won his second Grammy Award for best spoken-word album, for the audiobook version of his book "The Audacity of Hope"; other nominees in the same category that year included Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
President Barack Obama
In what way is Black Lives Matter trying to reform Black communities?
Black Lives Matter also has its own internal focus. By providing training and resources to activists, they encourage a reform to Black activism to be more inclusive of all Black people, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or economic status.