AWARDS
First Black Person to win an Emmy Award
Who is Harry Belafonte?
This activist and leader of the Nation of Islam is known for his radical approach to Civil Rights before his assassination in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
The first Black Player to win NBA MVP
Who is Bill Russell?
The founder of the first HBCU. (leads to the first next question automatically)
Who is Richard Humphreys?
This person created the phrase "yolo"
Who is Drake?
This artist has won the most Grammys amongst Black People
Who is Beyonce?(with 35)
This was the nickname for Fredrick Douglas
What is Little Valentine?
This boxer shook up the world by defeating Sonny Liston in 1964 and later refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammed Ali?
The school was first called the African Institute, to later or now be called what
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
This actor starred in the Boondocks as the character Gin Rummy
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
As of now, the two Black individuals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music
Who are Kendrick Lamar and George Walker?
This Black woman's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bord Sings," became an essential part of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Maya Angelou?
This NFL quarterback became the firs Black player to start and win a Super Bowl in 1988.
Who is Doug Williams?
This HBCU, founded in 1867, has produced notable alumni like Kamala Harris and the late Chadwick Boseman
What is Howard University?
Most viewed Youtube video by a black creator
What is "SAD!" by XXXTentaction?
The First Black person to win an Academy Award
Who is Hattie McDaniel?(with best supporting actress with "Gone with the Wind")
This African American woman became the first to sit in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
In 2002, this U.S. Olympian became the first Black Woman to win gold in the Winter Olympics for her performance in bobsledding.
Who is Vonetta Flowers?
She founded Bethune-Cookman University and was an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Black Education
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This was the first black superhero in DC Comics.
Who is Black Lightning?
The First Black Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Who is Ralph Bunche?
This civil right leader wanted blacks to work hard and earn their equality from the whites.
Who is Booker T Washington?
Name one of the three Black players who have won the Ballon d'or.
This Nobel Prize winning author and professor if humanities at Princeton wrote "Beloved" and focused on Black identity in her novels
Who is Toni Morrison?
This former BMSE Board Member is now a D1 athlete at Howard University
Who is Joshua Strong?