Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps star in this romantic drama about two next-door neighbors trying to pursue basketball careers.
What is Love and Basketball?
100
This inventor studied the problems farmers faced while growing crops and created a method known as the "Crop Rotational Method" which was used to grow crops such as peanuts, potatoes, and pecans.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
This actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, author, and songwriter has won critical praise for playing Madea.
Who is Tyler Perry?
100
This organization was founded in 1909 and is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
100
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
A 2012 war film produced by Lucasfilm and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American United States Army Air Force (USAAF) servicemen during World War II.
What is Red Tails?
200
This beauty mogul was a washerwoman turned entrepreneur who in 1905 invented a method to soften and smooth black women's hair.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
200
Youngest black male actor to win an Academy Award (age 29).
Who is Jamie Fox?
200
A nonprofit membership organization founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune with a mission to lead, develop and advocate for women of African descent as they support their families and communities
What is National Council of Negro Women?
200
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
300
This 1995 film is about two hip detectives trying to protect a murder witness while investigating a case of stolen heroin.
What is Bad Boys
300
He is one of the country's most successful inventors creating not only the gas mask but, the traffic signal as well.
Who is Garrett A. Morgan?
300
He is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
Who is James Earl Jones?
300
This organization's purpose is to promote activities of common interest, as well as cultural and educational benefits for the African American student body.
What is the Black Student Union (BSU)?
300
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Who is Booker T. Washingtion?
400
A 1975 experimental play by Ntozake Shange
What is For Colored Girls?
400
This man borrowed a pocket watch from a wealthy acquaintance, took the watch apart and studied its components. After returning the watch, he created a fully functioning clock entirely out of carved wooden pieces.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
400
She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby".
Who is Eartha Kitt?
400
This organization believes that people of African origin have an historic task to perform, that is to ensure that the truth of what happened to people of African American culture.
What is the African Reparation Movement?
400
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Who is Fredrick Douglass
500
This film is about a former slave who finds his old slave friend in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter, then a strange girl comes along and strange things begin to happen.
What is Beloved?
500
This woman invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.
Who is Dr. Patricia E. Bath?
500
He was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. He performed as the lead singer and musician in a rock band called Severance in 1975/1976 based in Venice, California.
Who is Gregory Hines?
500
This is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.
What is The National Urban League (NUL)?
500
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.