Sports
This team won the Superbowl this past NFL Season(2025).
Philadelphia Eagles
This jazz legend, known as “Satchmo,” popularized the trumpet and was a founding figure of swing music, releasing hits like What a Wonderful World
Louis Armstrong
In 1965, this civil rights leader delivered his famous “How Long, Not Long” speech after the Selma to Montgomery marches.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This 2016 film tells the true story of three African American women mathematicians at NASA who played key roles in launching John Glenn into orbit.
Hidden Figures
These two people were the president and vice president of NABA Villanova last year.
Dominic and Teni
LeBron James has won this many rings in his career so far.
4 Rings
This pioneering hip-hop artist released the 1986 album Raising Hell, which included the hit single Walk This Way with Aerosmith.
Run-D.M.C.
In 1926, this organization was founded to promote civil rights, education, and political activism for African Americans, later becoming a major force in the civil rights movement.
NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This 2018 Marvel film became the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Black Panther
In this year, NABA once again became an official club here on campus(Not original founding year).
2019
The Track and Field World Championships were held here this year.
Tokyo, Japan
Nicknamed the “Queen of Soul,” she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Aretha Franklin
In 1940, she became the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license in the United States.
Bessie Coleman
In 2002, she became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performance in Monster’s Ball.
Halle Berry
This individual is the richest black person in America
Richard Steward
This nation became the first African country to reach the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup, achieving the feat in 2022 after defeating Portugal.
Morocco
This singer and pianist, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” recorded over 1,000 songs in her career, including St. Louis Blues in 1925.
Bessie Smith
In 1896, this Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine, which wasn’t overturned until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This groundbreaking 1968 film, directed by Gordon Parks, was one of the first major studio movies directed by an African American, paving the way for the Blaxploitation era.
The Learning Tree
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY) This person is the founder of NABA.
Frank K. Ross
This is the number of career blocks Hakeem Olajuwon recorded, making him the all-time leader in blocked shots in NBA history. (+/- 100 blocks)
3,830 Blocks
This influential jazz trumpeter and composer, nicknamed “Bird,” helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s with complex improvisation and recordings like Ornithology.
Charlie Parker
In 1895, this African American educator gave the famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, advocating vocational education for Black Americans while accepting segregation as a temporary reality.
Booker T. Washington
In 1929, this filmmaker wrote, directed, and produced Within Our Gates, the oldest known surviving film directed by an African American, which challenged racist stereotypes in early cinema.
Oscar Micheaux
In 1968, he became the first African American to head a major U.S. bank, serving as president of the New Jersey-based Urban National Bank.
Joseph E. Lee