Classic Black Movies
This musical film follows the adventures of Dorothy, a shy, twenty-four-year-old Harlem schoolteacher.
What is the Wiz?
This show centers on the lives of the couple George and Louise
What is the Jeffersons?
The first African American actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
This actress had her breakthrough with her portrayal of singer Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to Do with It.
Who is Angela Bassett?
Hits such as "Respect", "A Natural Woman",and "I Say a Little Prayer", propelled this artist's musical career.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey
What is The Color Purple?
Two African-American boys from Harlem taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower
What is Different Strokes?
This actor's first film role was in Bright Road, in which he appeared alongside Dorothy Dandridge.
Who is Harry Belafonte?
The first Black woman to win a Tony award for Best Actress in a Musical, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings.
Who is Diahann Carroll?
This pianist suffered glaucoma during his early life causing him to eventually lose his sight.
Who is Ray Charles?
This film's title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name.
What is Lean on Me?
This series followed the lives of people in a middle-class apartment building in Northeast, Washington, D.C.
What is 227?
This actor's prominent film roles include New Jack City & White Men Can't Jump
Who is Wesley Snipes?
Referred to as the “Black Marilyn Monroe” this actress became famous in 1954, in the title-role of Carmen Jones.
Who is Dorothy Dandridge?
The "First Lady of Gospel Music", has won 12 Grammys, but her first was for "Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man"
Who is Shirley Caesar?
This musical drama's plot follows the three decade career of a rhythm and blues vocal group
What is The Five Heartbeats?
In this show, Roger "Raj" Thomas is a teenager living in Watts with his divorced mother Mabel and his younger sister Dee.
What is What's Happening?
Known for his role in the movie “Boomerang,” & the television series “The Wayans Bros.,” and “The Boondocks.”
Who is John Witherspoon?
This actress starred as Catwoman in the third and final season of the television series Batman in 1967.
Who is Eartha Kitt?
This genre of music originated from black American music such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues as well as country music.
What is rock & roll?
This film explores a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension between its African-American residents and the Italian-American owners of a local pizzeria
What is Do the Right Thing?
This show depicts the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia.
What is A Different World?
This actor was the lead in the biographical drama Lean on Me
Who is Morgan Freeman?
This actress has won three Primetime Emmy Awards & received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
Who is Cicely Tyson?
Finish the lyrics:
A chair is still a chair, even when there's no one sitting there
But a chair is not a house and a house is not a home