Culture (Film and Literature)
This author died last year leaving behind titles such as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Song of Solomon. Lo, Playing in the Dark, amongst over 50 other titles.
Who is Toni Morrison
This city is known as the birthplace of hip hop
What is New York City
He was a prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement and in favor of the nonviolence
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This dance move is a simple gesture in which a person drops their head into the bent crook of a slanted, upwardly angled arm, while raising the opposite arm out straight in a parallel direction (Hint: trending in 2015)
A dish of cooked pasta and a cheese sauce, most commonly cheddar
What is Mac n' Cheese
Films Get Out and Us were created by this director
The city where Jazz was found
New Orleans
This African American woman is credited with spurring the Montgomery Bus Boycotts when she bravely refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
Who is Rosa Parks
In 2020, amid the pandemic, this song was popular on TikTok as a dance challenge was created by Keara “Keke” Wilson
What is "Savage" by Meg Thee Stallion
A quickbread often baked or made in a skillet, commonly made with buttermilk and seasoned with bacon fat; inspired by the great availability of corn in America
What is cornbread
This Oscar-winning actress played the role of Annalise Keating in the hit ABC series “How to Get Away with Murder”
Who is Viola Davis
This popular rap artist’s real name is Nayvadius Wilburn - Hint: he's the artist behind "Mask Off"
Who is Future
This organization was behind the Freedom Summer campaign in 1964 which attempted to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe
Viral Internet video trend which became popular in November 2016, in which people remain frozen in action while a moving camera films them (Hint: "Black Beatles" by Rae Sremmurd playing in the background)
What is the Mannequin Challenge
A staple vegetable of Southern U.S. cuisine, they are often prepared with other similar green leaf vegetables, such as kale, turnip greens, spinach, and mustard greens in "mixed greens"
What are collard greens
She was the first Black person to win an Academy Award
Who is Hattie McDaniel
The first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year
Who is Lauryn Hill
He was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University and become a U.S. senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels
This trend involved the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge
Often parboiled, sliced, then adorned with butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla or other spices, and baked; commonly called "candied sweets" or "candied yams"
What are sweet potatoes
Amid the pandemic, this film released through HBO and select theatres and depicted the FBI's role in the killing of Fred Hampton who was the Chairman of Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party
What is Judas and the Black Messiah
As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes
What are Ballet and poetry classes
He invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light
Who is Garret Morgan
The challenge required the performer to dance along with a moving car and then jump back into the car. It involves a slow-moving car, with the person jumping out of the car and dancing to the first few lines of Drake's track (Hint: "Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?")
What is the Kiki Challenge
A cooked coarsely ground cornmeal of Native American origin
What are grits