Education
Which HBCU was the first to create a law school as an professional school for their institution? This college/university is also the founding place of a few black fraternities and sororities.
Howard University created Howard University School of Law in 1869.
Alpha Kappa Alpha (1908), Omega Psi Phi (1911), Delta Sigma Theta (1913), Phi Beta Sigma (1914), and Zeta Phi Beta(1920) were established on Howard's campus.
He was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. He was the Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education. (extra 200 points if you tell me where a school is name after him)
This coming of age film was based on a boy growing up in rural Atlanta on the verge of adulthood with the experiences of his friends to help.
ATL (2006)
What are cracklins/skins?
Fried skin of a pig/hog
If you a child, what you need to stay out of?
Grown folks bidness (and trouble)
This institution was founded with the purpose of providing opportunities regarding medical and health care studies to African American students around the world but mainly the south.
Meharry Medical College formerly known as Medical Department of Central Tennessee College (1876).
Centered in Nashville, Tennessee
Although she was an enslaved person, she was the abolitionists’ illustrative testimony that blacks could be both artistic and intellectual. She wrote many poems about her experience --impossible to link her to just one.
Phillis Wheatley
Known for her hit single, "Santa Baby," this African American singer, actress, dancer, and activist was the first black cat woman.
Eartha Kitt
If you have NOT done this by the time your parents got home, it will be a problem.
A preacher in his earlier years of life then turned to writing before moving to Europe. He was known for his novel "Giovanni's Room."
James Baldwin
What form of need-based federal financial aid that typically does not have to be repaid, which makes it highly desirable. It is awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to help eligible low-income students pay for college costs, including tuition, fees, room and board, and other educational expenses.
Pell Grant
This was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. This event killed how many young women?
4. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair.
The only African American woman to have 3 Diamond certified albums on the American charts. (extra 100 points if you can name the 3 albums.)
Whitney Houston
The Bodyguard (1992), Whitney Houston (1985), Whitney (1987)
At grandma house, this food is SUPPOSE to put some meat on ya bones. Give at least 2
collard greens, cornbread, red beans and rice, macaroni, and neck bones.
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. He is also a member of Omega Psi Phi, becoming a member at Lincoln University.
Langston Hughes
She was a civil rights advocate who helped register black people to vote in Mississippi?
Fannie Lou Hammer
Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi and later freed during the Civil War. One of the founders of the NAACP was an investigative journalist and leader in the civil rights and women's suffrage movement. This individual attended Rust College and Fisk University.
Ida B. Wells
Name a Rasheeda (Shawty Lo) song.
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After church, in the fellowship hall, what is on the menu?
Which town in MS is known as the crossroads and which MS artist allegedly sold his soul to the devil for a talent in guitar?
Clarksdale, Ms
Robert Johnson
This educational show teaches kids reading skills, habits, and attitudes. The magazine-style format takes kids on real-life journeys with celebrity guest readers and "Kid on the Street" book recommendations.
Extra 100 points if you name the narrator of the show and another 100 points if you name what black culture show he acted in.
Reading Rainbow
LeVar Burton
Roots
What event transported African people from their original homeland to America from the 16th to 19th century?
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
He played a driver to a rich old white women in Atlanta Georgia and they became best friends and is known for his dialect.
Morgan Freeman
In the summer, what did we eat outside while playing?
Popsicles , watermelon, frozen ice cups, finger sandwiches, chips, pizza, hot dogs..
First African-American woman to appear on U.S. currency.
Maya Angelou