Black Progress
Name the first African-American daily newspaper?
What is New Orleans Tribune
Me: Mama can I have some McDonalds
Mama:
What is "You got McDonald's money?”
Real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar
Who is Cardi B
First African American Woman Secretary of State
Who is Condoleezza Rice, 2005.
Located at the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony on April 4, 1968, this important museum is filled with Civil Rights history from Slavery in America to current issues today.
What is the Civil Rights Museum
Who is the founder of Tuskegee University?
Who is Booker T. Washington
“When we get in this store, don’t touch nothin’, don't ask for nothin' and don't run off no where.”
This female artist has the most Grammy wins in history winning her 28th in 2021
who is QUEEN BEY!! Beyonce
First African American Published Poet
Who is Phillis Wheatley, 1773.
In 1925, with the help of his tiny rowboat, this local African-American resident (who could not swim) braved the Mississippi River’s swirling currents to save 32 strangers from drowning when their excursion steamer sank
Who is Tom Lee
When did Carter G. Woodson start Black History Week (which eventually became Black History Month)?
What is 1926
Finish the statement: "Do I look like ______?"
What is "BooBoo the Fool"
Name 4 Black Billionaires in America
Who is David Steward, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Robert F. Smith and Tyler Perry.
First African American Woman U.S. Representative
Who is Shirley Chisholm, 1969.
What is the name of the plaza created to honor the sanitation workers who went on strike in 1968 demanding higher wages, time and a half overtime, safety measures, and pay for the rainy days when they were told to go home.
What is "I am a Man Plaza"
Who was the first African-American Rhodes scholar?
Who is Dr. Edwin Locke
If you don't stop crying, what will mama give you?
What is "something to cry about"
This artist and advocate founded Greenwood digital Bank for black people whose name references the historic Tulsa, Oklahoma-based business district "Greenwood" that was the heart of Black entrepreneurship. The district known as Black Wall Street was burned down and destroyed in 1921 by a white mob.
Who is Killer Mike
First African American Woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
Who is Toni Morrison, 1993.
The most famous Parkway in Memphis (to get credit you have to say it the appropriate way)
In what year was the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church founded?
What is 1787
What is the product of a hard head?
This Ohio philanthropist is building a model for advancing education and social assistance in the neighborhood where he was raised by investing$20M in A new school, three residential buildings and a sports-and-entertainment complex.
Who is Lebron James
First African American Woman to win a Grammy Award
Who is Ella Fitzgerald, 1958.
At This 19th-century-house-turned-museum Visitors can get up close to see the secret doors and dark cellars that once were used to hide escaping slaves at this local stop of the Underground Railroad
What is Slave Haven