Political Firsts
The 44th President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
The continent where humanity originated.
What is Africa?
She was a talk show host for 25 years and has her own TV network (OWN).
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The movement against police brutality founded in 2013: #BLM.
What is Black Lives Matter?
A classic novel by Anna Sewell about a horse.
What is Black Beauty?
The first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This NYC neighborhood was the center of a 1920s cultural renaissance.
What is Harlem?
This rap mogul founded Roc-A-Fella records and is married to Beyoncé.
Who is Jay-Z?
This 19th-century network of secret routes helped enslaved people escape North.
What is The Underground Railroad?
A Netflix sci-fi anthology series exploring technology's dark side.
What is Black Mirror?
The first Black Secretary of State (General)
Who is Colin Powell?
The first independent Black republic in the world (1804).
What is Haiti?
He is the wealthiest Black man in America, known for tech equity investing.
Who is Robert F. Smith?
The celebration of the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865.
What is Juneteenth?
A Marvel superhero movie starring Chadwick Boseman.
What is Black Panther?
The first Black woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The capital city of Ethiopia, home to the African Union headquarters.
What is Addis Ababa?
She is the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance (as of 2021), a rare Black female Fortune 500 CEO.
Who is Roz Brewer?
The period after the Civil War intended to rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves.
What is Reconstruction?
This 2018 film by Spike Lee is about a Black cop infiltrating the KKK.
What is BlacKkKlansman?
The current U.S. House Minority Leader (from New York).
Who is Hakeem Jeffries?
This West African country was founded by freed American slaves; its capital is Monrovia.
What is Liberia?
He founded Black Enterprise magazine.
Who is Earl Graves Sr.?
The name of the bus ride protests in 1961 to challenge segregation in the South.
What are the Freedom Rides?
A DC Comics superhero who controls electricity.
Who is Black Lightning?