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This song released February 17th, 1988 by DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince went on to win the first ever Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
What is Parents Just Don’t Understand
These are the only other countries that celebrate Black History Month in February - just like the US.
What are Canada and Germany
Born February 1818, this abolitionist later became the first African-American ever nominated for Vice President of the United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass
In 1947, not 42, he became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball’s modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson
This fictional African nation is the homeland of Prince Akeem in the 1988 film Coming to America.
What is Zamunda
This landmark decision, ruling that racial segregation in public schools violates the 14th amendment, was filed February 28th,1951
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
Reggae Month intentionally coincides with Black History Month in this Caribbean nation.
What is Jamaica
Outkast released a single named after this civil rights pioneer, who was born February 4, 1913.
Who is Rosa Parks
This tennis legend became the first player in the Open Era to claim 23 Grand Slam titles.
Who is Serena Williams
This 2000 film follows two student-athletes whose basketball journeys lead them to USC.
What is Love and Basketball
Formed February 12, 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice, this is the largest and oldest civil rights group in America.
What is the NAACP
It’s a treat, not a trick, that the U.K. celebrates Black History Month during this month in order to coincide with the start of the school year.
When is October
This reggae legend, born February 6 1945, released the iconic track "One Love" on his album debut with The Wailers.
Who is Bob Marley
This performer became the first Black person to achieve an EGOT. That’s an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
Who is Whoopi Goldberg
This 1993 film starring Janet Jackson shares its title with a hit Kendrick Lamar song.
What is Poetic Justice
After 27 years of incarceration this South African activist was released on February 11, 1990. You may be familiar with his effect.
Who is Nelson Mandela
In this country it’s known as “Blak History Month”, an intentionally different spelling which better aligns with the language of the Aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders.
What is Australia
Born February 13, 1131, this beloved author can claim both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize in literature as well as a National Humanities Award among her 50 awards and honors.
Who is Toni Morrison
After co-founding this golden city, William Alexander Leidesdorff became the first black U.S. millionaire in 1841 with an estimated wealth equivalent to $62M today.
What is San Francisco
We've all had them, and so did Keke Palmer and SZA in this aptly named 2025 comedy film where everything goes wrong.
What is One of Them Days
On Feb 3, 2009 - less than a year after being named one of the “Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Past 30 Years” this man was sworn in as the first African-American Attorney General in the U.S.
Who is Eric Holder
In October, long after tulip season has ended, this European nation celebrates BAM - Black Achievement Month.
What is The Netherlands
In 1983, this author became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple - just a few months before her 40th birthday on February 9.
Who is Alice Walker
After being the first black man to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee, he then went on to be the first black person to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the TV show Severance.
Who is Tramell Tillman
They called him Mr. Tibbs in this groundbreaking movie based on a book that then became a TV series of the same name.
What is In the Heat of the Night