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100
Kunta Kinte's real name
LeVar Burton
Best known for Roots (1977), Star Trek, and Reading Rainbow
100
First African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress
Halle Berry
Monster's Ball (Marc Forester, 2002)
100
Filmmaker known for Precious (2009) and The Butler (2013)
Lee Daniels
100
This amendment abolished slavery "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The 13th Amendment
100
Black Panther actress who became a global symbol of representation
Lupita Nyong'o
200
First Black billionaire in the United States
Oprah Winfrey
200
"Bye, Felicia" movie title
Friday (F. Gary Gray, 1995)
200
The character "Mars Blackmon" first appears in an early film by this filmmaker
Spike Lee
(She's Gotta Have It, 1986)
200
America's first female, self-made millionaire
Madam C. J. Walker
200
The first African American actor to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
Hattie McDaniel
300
James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power
Ghost
300
The name of the otherworld state where people were trapped, in Jordan Peele's Get Out (Peele, 2017)
The Sunken Place
300
The first Latin American director to win an Oscar for Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Won for Gravity (2019)
300
The first African American to serve on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall (served 1967-1991)
300
City known as the birthplace of hip hop
The Bronx, New York
400
First African American woman to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Viola Davis
400
The first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Sidney Poitier
Lillies of the Field (Ralph Nelson, 1964)
400
1920 American silent race drama film, often called the response to The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)
400
First Black woman to run for president in 1972
Shirley Chisholm
400
First African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year
Lauren Hill
500
Television’s First Black Broadcaster
Mal Goode
Pittsburgh, PA (ABC television, 1962-1973)
500
The first Latina to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
Rita Moreno
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1962)
500
First Black director to win the Academy Award for Best Director
Jane Campion
The Power of the Dog (2022)
500
First state to elect a Black governor in 1989
Virginia
500
Rapper who became the first African American billionaire in 2019
Jay-Z