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Renowned Black musical artist Beyoncé found her original debut in this musical group
What is Destiny’s Child?
An cab driver in 2018 said to a Marvel producer of this widely circulated and popularized movie that he knew they were making a movie about black people as he had never driven so many to the cinema
What is Black Panther?
This hair cloth (oftentimes silk) popularized by African Americans in the 1960s is commonly used to protect hairstyles when sleeping and lounging
What is a durag?
The abbreviation BLM became the motto of protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd
What is Black Lives Matter?
She is known for returning to the antebellum South to emancipate over 300 slaves over 8 times
Who is Harriet Tubbman?
He is considered the “King of Pop”
Who is Michael Jackson?
This is the type of movie you would NEVER find a Black person in if they could help it
What is horror? OR What are horror movies?
This is a popular ingredient in black friendly skin products comes from a tree by the same name
What is Shea/ Shea Butter?
This term is also known as BIPOC works to include a number of ethnic communities by expanding the original term POC
What is Black, Indigenous and People of Color?
This is the first Disney movie to star a human African-American princess
What is the Princess and The Frog?
When gaining his freedom and eventually sailing for the US Navy fighting against Confederates he eventually bought his previous master’s house
Who is Robert Smalls?
Following a trend of 2020, when a white person earned a Black person’s respect they would say “They are invited to the-“ this
What is cookout/the cookout?
She became the first African-American woman millionaire after developing a hair growth formula
Who is Madam C J Walker?
This is what the abbreviation YMCA originally meant
What is the Young Men’s Christian Association?
Touissant Le’Overture led this revolution one of the first and most successful organized slave revolts
What is the Haitian Revolution?
She was the first African American woman to star in a motion picture and worked as a spy for the American government during WWII to boot.
Who is Josephine Baker?
This core class's lectures often invoke at least five sideways glances throughout the year from or directed at African students
What is US History?
The oldest depictions of black hairstyles such as braids, cornrows and Afros can be found in this country
What is Egypt?
This organization had notable members such as W E B DuBois and is known shorthand as the NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This is the number of Black Congressmen currently serving the US government
What is 26?
He is the inventor of the elevator
Who is Alexander Miles?
This trial was so infamous that it reached a number of views and very much became a racially charged debate and is still used in pop culture references and jokes today.
What is the OJ Simpson Trial?
A Greek and Roman goddess. Her nickname Melainis meaning “the Dark One” led some to consider whether it may have been referring to her skin rather than her disposition
Who is Aphrodite?
The identities also known as the LGBTQIA+ has a great overlap of members within the Black community
What are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual?
This is the oldest African language to date
What is Bantu?