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Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States in this year
What is 2008
This show follows Will Smith after his "life got flipped-turned upside down" when he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a more affluent neighbourhood
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
This month is Black History Month
What is February
In 2013, this rapper was named the Toronto Raptor's Global Ambassador
Who is Drake
This inventor and botanical researcher shares almost the same name as the first President of the United States. He is known for discovering hundreds of uses for previously useless vegetables and fruits, principally the peanut
Who is George Washington Carver
He became the first Black U.S. Secretary of State during the first term of the W. Bush administration
Who is Colin Powell
This is the title of Martin Lawrence's television sitcom
What is Martin
This popular form of Southern Black cuisine consists of foods such as fried chicken, collard greens, and cornbread
What is Soul Food
She was a civil rights activist who is often compared to Rosa Parks for refusing to leave her seat at a movie theatre in Nova Scotia. Her image is currently on the Canadian $10 bill
Who is Viola Desmond
This 2016 films tells the little known history of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson's important contributions to NASA during the early years of the space program
What is Hidden Figures
The racist Jim Crows laws, by definition, ended in this decade when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act
What is 1960s
This sketch comedy show helped launch the careers of Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Jamie Foxx, Shawn Wayans, as well as fly girls Carrie Ann Inaba and Jennifer Lopez
What is In Living Color
She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin
Caribana, or the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, was started in this decade
What is the 1960s (1967)
She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire and made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women. Octavia Spencer plays her in a 2020 Netflix series
Who is Madam C. J. Walker
Interracial marriage was outlawed until 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the law in this famous trial known as (Blank) v. Virginia
What is Loving
He was the first Black late night talk show host
Who is Arsenio Hall
What does the acronym HBCUs refer to in reference to education
What is Historically black colleges and universities
He was the first Black player in the National Hockey League having played for the Boston Bruins in the 1957-58 season
Who is Willie O'Ree
This physician and chemical engineer became the first black woman in space in 1992
Who is Mae Jemison
In 1954, this Supreme Court decision ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This decision was (Blank) v. Board of Education
What is Brown
This television series was a spin-off of The Cosby Show and originally followed Denise Huxtable as she went to a historically black college
What is A Different World
(Daily Double) How many Black majority owners are there in the National Basketball League
What is one (Michael Jordan)
This African-Canadian Nova Scotia community was founded in the mid-18th century, but the residents were forcefully evicted and their homes demolished in the 1960s
What is Africville
Her cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. These cells were taken without her permission and her children did not find out this until over twenty years later and have not received compensation
Who is Henrietta Lacks