Music
She gave Barry Gordy his 1st hit in 1964, a song referencing one's significant male other.
Who is Mary Wells and My Guy?
The fastest land animal.
What is a Cheetah (at 68 MPH)?
This Law is expressed in the bible as "you reap what you sow."
What is the Law of Attraction?
Who was the first black woman to own a TV studio?
Oprah Winfrey
This 1954 romantic tragedy based on the 1875 Bizet opera starred a well-known Jamaican-American singer and an actress who would go on to star as the lead in Porgy and Bess.
What is Carmen, starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge?
Voted the greatest Jazz artist of all time, he recorded what is likely the biggest selling Jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue.
Who is Miles Davis?
The most popular pet in America.
What are dogs (33%)? (27% have cats.)
How scientist George Washington Carver was able to make over 300 hundred products from peanuts.
What is his belief that “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough”?
His first novel was Go Tell It on the Mountain, and he is NOT your Negro.
Who is James Baldwin?
This riveting 1962 tale of racial injustice starred Gregory Peck, Brock Peters, and an unknown Robert Duvall as Boo Radley.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
This Reggae song was a major hit for Eric Clapton in 1974, penned and recorded by an artist more popular today than when he was alive over 40 years ago.
What is I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley?
The most intelligent animal after humans.
What are great apes?
Einstein's dictum about energy that confirms we will be here in some form throughout eternity.
What is Einstein's finding that energy can only be transformed, never destroyed.
He asked, in his poetry, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
This 1972 film starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield concerns an African-American sharecropper family in the Deep South, who struggle with hardships during the Great Depression.
What is Sounder?
Which video by a Black artist was the first to receive heavy rotation on MTV, and opened the doors for other Black artists?
What is Billie Jean by Michael Jackson?
Considered the most intelligent birds.
What are parrots and the corvid family of crows, ravens, and jays?
Two practices recommended by metaphysicians and psychologists to cultivate inner peace and well-being.
What are Gratitude and Forgiveness?
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization?
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
This "invaluable" 1990 documentary chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.
What is Paris Is Burning?
Widely heard as an ode to African American women, this Fleetwood Mac song became a huge hit in 1971 for a new band out of California lead by a Mexican American on an album titled with a word believed to have magical qualities.
What is Black Magic Woman, by Santana, on the album Abraxas?
Known collectively in South Africa as The Big Five.
What are the lion, leopard, black rhinoceros, African bush elephant, and the African buffalo.
In Mathew 8:13 in the Bible, what words are uttered by Jesus that suggest our thinking is a direct determinant of what we experience in life?
What is "As you have believed, let it be done for you."
Who became the first woman candidate for president?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This paean to battered women everywhere details the love affair, marriage, and professional success of a legendary singer, who despite her talent and renown, is abused until she fights back.
What is What's Love Got to Do With It?