Jams Black People Made
365 Black History
Black TV and Movies
Invented By Black Folks
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100

This singer of Doo-Wop (That Thing) is the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year (1999)


Lauryn Hill

100

This American Baptist minister and activist became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr.

100

In his directorial debut, Jordan Peele wrote and directed this 2017 American horror film

Get Out

100

This man is the inventor of the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that included the yellow light

Garrett Morgan

100

This NFL Rookie wide receiver was selected by the Buccaneers in a 5th round draft pick in 2020

Tyler Johnson

200

This popular rap artist’s real name is Dominique Jones

Lil Baby

200

He is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is is an American politician and attorney who will serve as the 46th vice president of the United States.

Barack Obama

and

Kamala Harris

200

James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power

Ghost

200

In the Stevie Wonder song "Black Man," the Motown marvel sings a lyric of a Black man making the first clock. Name the Black man Stevie mentions

Benjamin Banneker

200

In 2021, a blockbuster trade took place when this NBA three-time scoring champion was traded from the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets

James Harden

300

This song is the official #1 song in the Top 40 of 2020

Song: Blinding Lights

Artist: The Weekend

300

This African American cultural movement flourished in the 1920s with Harlem as its symbolic capital.

The Harlem Renaissance

300

Two classes rapper/actor Tupac Shakur took as a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts

Ballet and poetry

300

She created specialized hair products for African American hair care and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire

Madam C.J. Walker

300

He hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times

Barry Bonds

400

This is the earliest form of Black musical expression in America


Spirituals

400

In February 1926, this man sent out a press release announcing the first Negro History Week. Negro History Week was later named Black History Month in 1976.

Carter G. Woodson

400

This movie starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, tells the 12-hour experience of two LAPD narcotics officers over in the neighborhoods South Central Los Angeles.

Training Day

400

This agricultural scientist and inventor developed hundreds of products using peanuts (though not peanut butter, as is often claimed).  

George Washington Carver

400

After being introduced to gymnastics "by way of the cartwheel" as a child, she went on to be the first woman of color and the first Black gymnast in Olympic history to be the Individual All-Around Champion

Gabby Douglas

500

Lift ev'ry voice and sing

'Til earth and heaven ring

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty

500

Actress Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures.  Katherine Johnson is most known for this

Her calculations helped NASA’s space program and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space.

500

This movie stars Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, a new graduate of Harvard Law School, who heads to Alabama to defend Walter McMillan, a man who is sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence

Just Mercy

500

This American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur invented the Super Soaker water gun in 1990, which since has been among the world's best selling toys

Lonnie Johnson

500

These two historically black colleges played in the first college football game between black schools in 1892

Biddle University 

vs

Livingstone College