Afro-Asiatic Connection
This Caribbean island nation is known for having a long-standing Chinese immigrant community.
Jamaica
He improved the traffic light and invented an early gas mask.
Garrett Morgan
Known as the Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin
Birthplace of Hip Hop is:
a) Queens
b) the Bronx
c) Brooklyn
d) Harlem
b) the Bronx
"When you know better, you do better."
Maya Angelou
This recent movie, set in the 1930s, shows how Black and Asian shop owners supported each other through shared struggles.
Sinners by Ryan Coogler
He invented the Super Soaker water gun.
Lonnie Johnson
This jazz musician is known for his trumpet and song “What a Wonderful World.”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This group helped bring hip hop to the mainstream with songs like “Walk This Way.”
Run DMC
"Reclaiming my time."
Maxine Waters
Which famous athlete activist said this: "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?".
Muhammad Ali
This agricultural scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes.
George Washingtn Carver
She was the first Black woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
Ava Duvernay
Name 2 Historically Black Colleges and Universities ( HBCUS)
Howard, Hampton, Morgan State, Spellman, Morehouse
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.'
Barack Obama
Born in the United States to Chinese immigrant parents, she earned a PhD in philosophy and worked closely with Black leaders in Detroit. She partnered with labor, civil rights, and education movements and spent over 70 years organizing to strengthen schools, neighborhoods, and youth leadership.
Grace Lee Boggs
At age 7, this child activist participated in one of the earliest sit-ins in Oklahoma City.
Ayanna Najuma
He directed Do the Right Thing, a film about racial tension in Brooklyn.
Spike Lee
Most sampled artist in Hip hop is ______________.
James Brown
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisolm
Born in California to Japanese parents imprisoned in a World War II internment camp.became a civil rights organizer, and worked closely with Malcolm X. She spent decades supporting Black liberation and other justice movements.
Yuri Kochiyama
This person invented an automatic oiling system for engine, made trains and machines work better, inspired the phrase “the real McCoy”
ELijah McCoy
Why is Spike Lee's company called 40 Acres and a Mule?
“40 acres and a mule” was a real promise made in 1865 to formerly enslaved families. Some began receiving land and mules to farm, but later that year the program was canceled, and most of the land was returned to former slave owners. As a result, most Black families never received what they were promised.
Name one the most famous Black educator who founded a school for Black girls,advised U.S. presidents on education and civil rights, believed deeply in education as a path to freedom
Mary Mcleod Bethune
_________ said, "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically".
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.