Black TV
Father and Son run a junkyard business
Sanford and Son
Based in New Jersey, at the lowest ranking High School, this principal has the task of whipping the students into shape
Lean on Me
Which Tyler Perry play introduced Madea to the world?
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Something a black mother tells a child that’s crying for no reason.
“Keep crying and umma give you something to cry for“
Are commonly known as “The First Ladies of Gospel”
The Clark Sisters
The main character runs a radio show called, “Word on the Street”
MARTIN
An African Prince visits Queens looking for a woman to marry
Coming to America
What was Tyler Perry’s first feature film released in theaters?
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The number 1 rule when going into the store
“Don’t touch nothing!”
Edwin Hawkins made this gospel hymn famous
Oh Happy Day
This show is set at a fictional HBCU named Hillman College.
A Different World
What movie begins with a wedding, continues with family drama and ends with them reconciling at Sunday dinner?
Soul Food
Tyler Perry’s first tv show
House of Payne
What your mother always say when she wanted to kill you?
“I brought you in this world, I’ll take you out“
The first gospel artist to be known as “The Queen of Gospel“
Mahalia Jackson
In this show, the Lyon Family is known as the “First Family of Music“
EMPIRE
4 friends who are in need of money, all for different reasons become bank robbers
Set It Off
TV series set in Savannah, GA and highlights the contrast between privilege and poverty?
The Haves and the Have Nots
The answer you got as a child if you asked to go to McDonald’s
“Do you have McDonald’s money?”
The first gospel artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Yolanda Adams
What classic sitcom features the unforgettable friends: Raj the writer, Dwayne the cool friend and Rerun the dancer?
What’s Happening
Released in 1995, in this movie: a fight, robbery, someone getting fired, someone getting bit by a dog, and a drive by all happened in one day
FRIDAY!
What was the first Tyler Perry stage that did not feature Madea after she became a hit?
Why Did I Get Married?
What black mamas say because they truly believe age ain’t nothing but a number
“I don’t care how old you get, you still my child”
“You still my baby”
Which early spiritual was known as the “anthem” of enslaved African Americans?
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot