Food of African Descent
At the beginning of each year, some black families eat this food for good luck for the rest of the year. What is that food?
What is black-eyed peas?
Who was the first American-African president?
Who is Barack Obama?
Which Disney movie featured the first black princess?
What is "The Princess and the Frog"?
Who Founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Harlem in 1965?
Who is Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)?
Who was the first Black woman to win the best country album at the Grammys ?
Who is Beyonce?
Which southern black food has roots from West Africa, Native Americans, France, Spain, and the Caribbean?
What is gumbo?
As a symbol of Black American Heritage, Melvin Charles and Gleason T. Jackson created this red and black flag representing soul. What is the name of the flag?
What is the Soulaan Flag?
Netflix spin-off based on the book “Forever” by Judy Blume, which actors play “Keisha” and “Justin”?
Who are Lovie Simone and Micheal Cooper Jr?
This Black painter made the famously known Barack Obama's presidential portrait. Who are they?
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
Who was the famous Black artist with the most watched Super Bowl halftime show in history?
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Every holiday, Black families debate whether there should be turkey, pork, or chicken in this vegetable's broth. What is it?
What are green beans or collard greens?
This now 18 year old has multiple college degrees and became the youngest teacher ever at 16. Who is she?
Shania Muhammad
Who was the first Black woman to win an Emmy award for outstanding lead actress?
Who is Viola Davis?
This painting featured “Good Times” and Marvin Gaye's “I Want You” cover about a segregated club in North Carolina. What is the name and artist of this painting?
What is the "Sugar Shack by Ernie Barnes"
In 2017 this Emmy nominee award winner quoted they were “Rooting for everybody Black” in response to critics? Who are they?
Who is Issa Rae?
What was the name of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef that introduced foods like french fries and macaroni and cheese to America?
Who is James Hemmings?
Which Black doctor led the NIH team that created the design of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine?
Who is Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett?
Who became the first Black woman to host her own nationally syndicated talk show in 1986?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Which official fashion designer created the first Black Barbie for Mattel?
Who is Kitty Black-Perkins?
Recently it was reported that a movie earned 368 million dollars in box offices. What is the movie?
What is Sinners?
What foods did enslaved Africans introduce to the Americas?
What is okra, Yams, black-eyed peas, watermelon, rice, sesame seed/benne, peanuts, gumbo, the method of smoking or barbecuing, and grits?
After hearing upsetting news from the death and injustice of Trayvon Martin, who are the people who started the hashtag “#BlackLivesMatter”?
Who are Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Ayo Tometi (formally known as Opal Tometi)?
Who is credited with being the first African American to write, produce, and direct a feature-length film
Hint (1919's The Homesteader)?
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
Who is referred to as “theater's poet of Black America"?
Who is August Wilson?
What special event was named in 2025 the blackest in its entire 77 year run?
What is The Met Gala?