Black excellence in business
This haircare entrepreneur became one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This actor portrayed T’Challa in Black Panther.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
This man became the first Black President of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This South Carolina city was home to one of the largest slave ports in North America.
What is Charleston?
This media mogul founded the popular network know as OWN
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This former First Lady is a Princeton and Harvard Law graduate and author of Becoming.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This 2025 supernatural thriller directed by Ryan Coogler stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as twin brothers returning to their hometown.
What is Sinners?
Who was the first African-American woman to be headlined at Coachella?
Who is Beyoncé?
This South Carolina college, founded in 1896 in Orangeburg, is one of the state’s public HBCUs.
What is South Carolina State University?
This Black-owned financial institution, founded in 1888, is one of the oldest Black banks still operating in the U.S
What is Capital City Bank?
He broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
A young man named Chiron grows up navigating identity and masculinity in Miami in this Oscar-winning film.
What is Moonlight?
This astronaut became the first Black American to travel to space in 1983 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Who is Guion Bluford?
This Beaufort-born Civil War hero escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and delivering it to Union forces.
Who is Robert Smalls?
This woman became the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2009.
Who is Ursula Burns?
This entrepreneur and rapper became hip-hop’s first billionaire in 2019.
Who is Jay-Z?
This 2016 film tells the true story of three Black women mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race.
What is Hidden Figures?
This woman became the first Black Vice President of the United States in 2021?
Who is Kamala Harris?
This historic Charleston church, founded in 1816, is one of the oldest Black congregations in the South.
What is Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?
This 1921 event in Oklahoma destroyed a thriving Black economic district known as “Black Wall Street.”
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This poet and activist wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou
In this 2018 film based on a novel by Angie Thomas, a teenage girl named Starr Carter witnesses the police shooting of her childhood best friend and must decide whether to speak out while balancing life between her Black neighborhood and her mostly white prep school.
What is The Hate U Give?
This HBCU became the first Black college founded in the South in 1865
What is Shaw University?
This student became the first Black undergraduate admitted to the College of Charleston after it desegregated in 1967
Who is Eddie Ganaway?