Print culture + Social Media
Black Faces/Black Performances
Radio,Sitcoms, and Television
Film
Music
100

Dubbed the first social media president.

Who is Barack Obama?


100

Notable for her 1991 rendition of the Star Spangled Banner?

Who is Whitney Houston?

100

First Black sitcom

Amos and Andy


100

Genre of 1970s films that featured Black (often male) protagonists as (anti)-heroes in urban settings.

What is 'blaxploitation'?

100

Female rapper who released Pink Friday in 2010?

Who is Nicki Minaj?

200

Hashtag created by Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin.

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What is #blacklivesmatter?

200

Michael Jackson debuted this signature dance move at the Motown 25 television event.

What is the 'moonwalk'?

200

Network that debuted the Cosby Show.

What is NBC?

200

Director and main star of this 1989 film set on the hottest day in Brooklyn?

Who is Spike Lee?

200

First rapper to win album of the year?

Lauryn Hill

300

Popular form of early photography used by Fredrick Douglas and Sojourner Truth.

What is the daguerreotype?  

300

Famous minstrel figure that also names a practice of segregation

Who is 'Jim Crow'?

300

Name three Black sitcoms

What are Julia, Amos and Andy, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Beulah...?


300

Film that garnered Sidney Poitier an Oscar.

What is Lilies of the Field?

300

Southern rap group based in Atlanta that includes Cee-Lo Green?

What is Goodie Mob?

400

I well my _______ to support the ______.

What is "shadow" and "substance"?

400

First Black person to win an academy award for best lead actor or actress?

Who is Sidney Poitier? OR Who is Halle Berry?

400

"Sitcom" derives from these two words.

What is situation comedy?

400

Rap group whose song appears in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."

Who is Public Enemy?

400

Nelly Music video that prompted the creation of the term "misogynoir."

What is Tip Drill?

500
Comic strip created by Aaron McGruder that later becomes a television show on Adult Swim.

What is the Boondocks?

500

________ politics describes performances of dominant culture value, norms, or aesthetics by marginalized or minoritized groups to gain acceptance.

What is "respectability"?

500

Original name of Amos and Andy radio show

Sam and Henry

500

Name a Motown film.

What is The Wiz, Mahogany, Lady Sings the Blues, or Last Dragon?

500

This is a subset of rap music popularized by rapper T.I.?

What is 'trap' music?