Black Music
Actor Jamie Foxx won an Academy Award for his portrayal of this legendary artist in a biographical film
Who is Ray Charles?
This actor won an Academy award in 2001 for Training Day.
Who is Denzel Washington?
This athlete played for the Los Angeles Lakers his entire professional career.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
In the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as leader of the civil rights movement bringing increased prominence to this city.
What is Atlanta?
This author's memoir is titled Becoming.
Who is Michelle Obama?
The youngest solo artist to ever have a number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This person won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Dreamgirls.
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
The first woman to headline a pay-per-view boxing event
Who is Laila Ali?
In the 1920s and 1930s, this city emerged as a flourishing center of black culture, art and music.
What is Harlem?
This author's first book was Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Who is James Baldwin?
The first Black artist to win a Grammy
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The first Black woman to win Best Actress
Who is Halle Berry?
The first African American Woman to win 3 Gold medals in a single Olympic Game
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
A true melting pot of cultures, this city has a wealth of unique heritage and proud traditions. It is best known for its music, vibrant nightlife, numerous festivals, food, and colonial architecture.
What is New Orleans?
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
These women are the highest-selling female gospel group in history
Who are The Clark Sisters?
Daniel Kaluuya won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for this film.
What is Judas and the Black Messiah?
This tennis player was only 20 years old when she won the U.S. Open.
Who is Naomi Osaka?
A major stop for runaway Southern slaves, this city attracted large numbers of Black people after the Civil War. Today it is one of the largest and most prominent Black communities in the United States.
What is Washington, DC?
This author wrote Things Fall Apart.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin?
First African American to win and be nominated for an Academy Award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started playing for this team.
Who are Brooklyn Dodgers?
This city was known as the "Promised Land" — jobs with good wages, homes with running water, and basic freedoms denied to Black people in the South were offered here.
What is Chicago?
The author of The Warmth of Other Suns
Who is Isabel Wilkerson?