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100
"Passengers" were transported on this "Gospel train" to the "Promised Land", i.e. Canada
The Underground Railroad
100
It took until 2015 for this country to fully pay off its slavery-era reparations -- to the slave owners
United Kingdom
100
Every year on April 15, everyone in the league wears #42, honoring this man who broke the MLB color line
Jackie Robinson
100
Known as "The Queen of" his chosen performance art, he holds 8 consecutive Emmy wins for Outstanding Reality TV Host
RuPaul
100
ومبي
Victor Wembanyama
200
It's not the guy who sculpted Mt. Rushmore. He's one of the most prominent Black scientists of the 20th century
George Washington Carver
Fun fact: his middle name wasn't actually Washington, he just picked the middle initial W at random
200
Yasuke was the first foreigner to achieve this title
Samurai
He was the first African man to appear in Japanese recorded history (1579)
200
His first professional loss came against Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa, before retiring, becoming a minister, and promoting a kitchen appliance
George Foreman
200
This man's 1993 Super Bowl halftime performance marked the first time in history where viewership increased after the first half
Michael Jackson
200
لون
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
300
In her landmark book "The New _______", Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in modern America has essentially replaced these segregationist policies
Jim Crow laws
300
Author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, his father was the first Black general in French History
Alexandre Dumas
300
"_____ me!" Alex would say while playing catch, after this Giants player's legendary 2014 catch
Odell Beckham Jr.
(New York Giants)
300
Name both the highest-grossing actor and actress of all time
Samuel L Jackson, Zoe Saldaña
300
كينيا
Kenya
400
In 1942, he was rejected by the Berkeley Mathematics Department due to his race.
In 1955, the Statistics Department branched off, and made him the first tenured Black professor at Cal.
Today, he is the namesake of an undergraduate residence hall.
David Blackwell
400
One superfan made headlines at AFCON last month for standing with his arm raised all game, dressed up as anticolonial revolutionary Patrice Lumumba. Which country was he supporting?
D.R. Congo
400
While still working at West Point, he competed in the 1968 US Open as an amateur, and became the first Black man to win it.
Today, the US Open main court stadium is named after him.
Arthur Ashe
400
In 2017 she became the first person in history to be named National Youth Poet Laureate
Amanda Gorman
400
دجاج
Jack Black
500
"if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last."
Who said this to Frederick Douglass, in opposition to the 15th Amendment?
Susan B. Anthony
500
This Biblical king / hunter is thought by some to be Black, due to being the son of Kush, father of the Ethiopians.
Unfortunately, today his name is slang for 'idiot', and you can blame Bugs Bunny
Nimrod
500
"I say he could be the greatest athlete of all-time. But for someone to run 10.03 one year and 9.69 the next, if you don't question that in a sport that has the reputation it has right now, you're a fool. Period."
Which legendary Black Olympian (four-time consecutive Gold medalist in Long Jump, 1984-1996) said this in 2008?
Carl Lewis
"I think a lot of these guys who sit and talk, especially Lewis, no-one really remembers who he is, so he is just looking for attention." - Bolt, 2012
500
Name a Black EGOT recipient
Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, James Earl Jones
+ Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones
500
كوانزا
Kwanzaa