Black History
Rosa Parks’s arrest helped launch a bus boycott in this Alabama city.
What is Montgomery?
Russwurm House is located on this Brunswick street.
What is Maine Street?
This East African language, also called Kiswahili, is widely spoken in Kenya and Tanzania.
What is Swahili?
André 3000 and Big Boi formed this Atlanta hip-hop duo.
Who are Outkast?
his filmmaker directed the horror movies Get Out and Us.
Who is Jordan Peele?
Ratified in 1865, this constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This member of Bowdoin’s Class of 2007 became a nationally recognized activist in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Who is DeRay Mckesson?
Name all three colors of the Pan-African flag associated with Marcus Garvey’s movement.
What are red, black, and green?
Before Aretha Franklin made it an anthem, this soul singer wrote and originally recorded “Respect.”
Who is Otis Redding?
This 2016 film follows Chiron through three stages of his life as he navigates identity, sexuality, and growing up in Miami.
What is Moonlight?
After a white mob destroyed her Memphis newspaper office in 1892, this journalist continued exposing lynching through works including Southern Horrors.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This Bowdoin graduate from the Class of 1974 became a nationally recognized education advocate through his work with the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Who is Geoffrey Canada?
This Jamaican-born organizer founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, promoting Black solidarity across national borders.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This 1998 release became the first hip-hop album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year.
What is The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill?
This actor played Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is James Avery?
Name both men who founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
After graduating from Bowdoin, John Brown Russwurm helped publish this pioneering Black-owned newspaper in 1827.
What is Freedom’s Journal?
This Nigerian musician and activist pioneered Afrobeat by blending influences including jazz, funk, and Yoruba music.
Who is Fela Kuti?
Name all three members of Destiny’s Child’s final lineup.
Who are Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams?
He played FBI informant William O’Neal in Judas and the Black Messiah.
Who is LaKeith Stanfield?
In 1992, this physician and astronaut became the first Black woman to travel into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
In 1829, John Brown Russwurm emigrated to this West African country, where he later became governor of the Maryland colony.
What is Liberia?
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King traveled to this African country to attend its independence celebrations in 1957.
What is Ghana?
This Minnesota city was Prince’s birthplace and a major center of his musical career.
What is Minneapolis?
Before starring in The Matrix, this actor played the teenage soldier nicknamed “Mr. Clean” in Apocalypse Now.
Who is Laurence Fishburne?