Black is the Blueprint
While this global music genre is proudly African, many artists draw heavily from Black American music and gospel traditions.
What is Afrobeats?
Home of go-go and Chocolate City pride
What is Washington DC?
Kid Fury and Crissle made this pop-culture commentary podcast go sold-out festival headliner and NAACP-nominated.
What is The Read?
This Christian theology was a major motivator in the Civil Rights Movement.
Black Liberation Theology
In 2017, this out Black transgender man became the first transmasculine person to be elected to office
Who is Phillipe Cunningham?
Since the 1980s, Black and Latinx queer youth have fused voguing, runway, and fashion in these underground scenes.
What is ballroom?
Home of the Black Panther Party.
What is Oakland?
Author of the groundbreaking choreopoem, "for colored girls..."
Who is Ntozake Shange?
A folk magic system created by enslaved Africans, combining herbal knowledge and Christian belief for protection and ancestral connection.
What is Hoodoo?
The first Black woman elected from the South to the U.S. House of Reps
Who is Barbara Jordan?
French and British youth used hip hop as a tool of expression and protest, leading to the rise of this U.K.-born genre with Caribbean and African roots.
What is grime?
Septima Clark's port city hometown and a key site for citizen education schools
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
This iconic Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "I, Too" and was the first Black student to attend Harvard.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This Afro-Caribbean faith blends Yoruba oricha worship with Catholic saints, drumming, spirit oracles, and trance states.
What is Santería?
Served in the OK House of Reps from 2020-24, this person became the first out nonbinary and Black state legislator and the first Muslim member of the OK legislature.
Who is Mauree Turner?
This DJ, often called the "Godfather of House," shaped the genre while in Chicago nightclubs in the 70s and 80s.
Frankie Knuckles
Located in the Mississippi Delta, this small town is renowned for its blues music, sharecropping resistance, and its role as the setting for Ryan Coogler's movie, "Sinner."
What is Clarksdale?
This long-running NPR-style show features in-depth interviews with Black icons from Ashe to King and Kerner.
What is In Black America?
A sacred dance-ritual still practiced by Gullah-Geechee communities — a moving prayer circle passed down among Black Christians since the 19th century.
What is the Ring Shout?
Who is Sherry Harris?
This Harlem designer pioneered streetwear luxury in the 1980s by repurposing European logos for the Black community.
Who is Dapper Dan?
Known for its Black cowboy history, this Texas city was home to the original chapter of the Southern Black Panther Party.
What is Dallas?
Born in 1760, he escaped slavery to found the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816.
Who is Richard Allen?
A powerful healer and the founder of the Temple of the Innocent Blood in the 1920s
Mother Catherine Seals
These two men became the first out gay Black men in Congress in 2021.
Who are Mondaire Jones and Richie Torress?