African American Employee Resource Group (AAERG)
Resilience!
What is the theme for this year's series of BHM virtual events hosted by the AAERG?
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett of the National Institute of Health partnered with Moderna to produce this.
What is the COVID-19 vaccine?
Vice President Kamala Harris, Chadwick Boseman, Toni Morrison, Thurgood Marshall, and Sean John Combs are alumni of this University.
What is Howard University?
This Freedom Rider spoke at 1963's March on Washington, was elected to congress in 1986 and received the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2011.
Who is John Lewis?
Mr. Lewis led the demonstration that became known as "Bloody Sunday."
His paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
The most recent AAERG Steering Committee member to step down and the replacement.
Who are Yaw Ageyman and Miles Green (respectively)?
This aptly named mathematician is known for her contributions to Global Positioning System (GPS) and was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame by the United States Air Force in 2018.
Who is Gladys West?
The first African American Lawyer.
Note: he is the great uncle to Langston Hughes.
Who is John Mercer Langston?
In the past decade, this Fair Fight founder has worked to register 800,000 new Georgia voters through her two anti voter-suppression groups.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team.
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
The 4 Pillars of the AAERG.
What are Attract/Recruit, Retain, Empower, and Inspire?
Lonnie G. Johnson, a nuclear engineer and former research engineer at ORNL, and NASA, invented this "wet" toy in 1989.
What is the Super Soaker® water gun?
Johnson formed his own engineering firm and licensed his most famous invention to the Larami Corporation, which became the number one selling toy in America.
The state Hiram Rhodes Revels represented in 1870.
What is Mississippi?
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American Senator and was a Harvard graduate.
This landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
What is Brown vs. Board of education?
Court case originated in Topeka, KS.
The olympic sport which Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis competed in.
What is track and field?
Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 to 1996. He dominated in 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, 4 × 100 m relay.
The current Chair of the AAERG Steering Committee.
Who is LaTonja Wright?
The name of the organization Dr. Lloyd Noel Ferguson co-founded.
What is the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)?
Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Dr. Ferguson was the first Black person to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
The surgeon, researcher and inventor who invented the modern blood bank.
Who is Charles Drew?
Black students and educators first celebrated BHM at this University (in Jan & Feb of 1970).
What is Kent State University?
Often referred to as the "Father of Hip Hop," this Jamaican-American DJ is credited for originating hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s.
Who is Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell)?
One of the Berkeley Lab 'Living Legacies' who was featured at the AAERG's Celebration of BHM in 2019.
Who is Sarah Richardson, Founder, CEO, MicroByre OR Herbert Ferrer, Alameda County Firefighter/Paramedic OR Jessica Granderson, Staff Scientist, BTUS Division Deputy?
The NASA physicist who invented the Illusion Transmitter.
Who is Valerie Thomas?
The Illusion Transmitter is a device that simulates a real-time, 3-dimensional viewing of an object through optical illusions with parabolic mirrors.
In honor of BHM 2021, the AAERG is hosting a viewing of a movie which features this military power house group.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen? Movie title: "Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War"
This Montgomery department store seamstress made a stand by sitting down.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Name of Manu Dibango's 1972 track that provided the famous chant sample on Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin.’"
What is Soul Makossa? Manu Dibango passed away March 2020 of COVID complications.