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This animated series follows The Freeman family, based on Aaron McGruder's comic strip.
What is "The Boondocks"?
As a child this is the time you had to be back in the house.
When the street lights came on.
This tennis legend won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams?
This 2000 comedy starred Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a sassy, larger-than-life Southern grandmother to protect a witness.
What is "Big Momma's House"?
This word describes something or someone that's fake, cheap, or of low quality.
What does "janky" mean?
This 90s sitcom centered on the Winslow family and their next-door neighbor, an awkward nerd named Steve Urkel.
What is "Family Matters"?
This satin or silk item is worn over your hair at night to protect your style while sleeping.
What is a bonnet or durag?
This activist and orator, born into slavery, published the "North Star" newspaper and wrote a famous autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 90s R&B girl group sang "No Scrubs" and "Waterfalls."
Who is TLC?
This term, meaning to embarrass or expose someone publicly, comes from the act of physically dragging something.
What does it mean to "drag" someone?
This sitcom starred Jackée Harry as Sandra Clark, a sassy, glamorous neighbor who often clashed with the more reserved Mary Jenkins.
What is "227"?
This holiday, celebrated June 19th, commemorates the day enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom.
What is Juneteenth?
This woman, known as "Moses," led dozens of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This line dance is set to the reggae song "Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths (though it's also famously danced to Cameo's "Candy").
What is the Electric Slide?
This phrase, meaning to fully commit or go all in on something, is often shortened to just the first word.
What does it mean to go "finna" do something? (accept: fixing to)
This semi-autobiographical sitcom, created by Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi, follows a teenage Chris in 1980s Brooklyn, with Chris Rock narrating.
What is "Everybody Hates Chris"?
When you asked "why" one too many times, this was the classic shutdown response.
What is "Because I said so"?
This activist, a member of the Black Panther Party, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list and later became a professor.
Who is Angela Davis?
This Chicago-style dance, a fast-footwork street dance born on the city's South and West Sides, is core to the juke/footwork music scene.
What is footwork (Chicago footwork)?
This word, an AAVE term describing a stylish, put-together appearance, predates its mainstream 2010s pop culture usage by decades.
What does it mean to be "fresh" (or "clean")?
This UPN sitcom, created by Yvette Lee Bowser, followed two estranged half-sisters who become neighbors and roommates.
What is "Half & Half"?
If you got hurt doing something you were told not to do, this was the unsympathetic response.
What is "I told you so" (or "That's what you get")?
This poet wrote "I know why the caged bird sings" and read a poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This author's choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide" was later adapted into a Tyler Perry film.
Who is Ntozake Shange?
This term, meaning to understand or "get" something, was used decades before its 2020s TikTok revival.
What does it mean to "catch it" (as in "you feel me" / "you dig")?