Music
TLC’s 1995 hit, that shares the name of Niagara's most popular cascading attraction.
Waterfalls
This African American golf champion was the first to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) Circuit.
Tiger Woods
The Thurgood Marshall Center in NW, DC holds a NAACP General Body Meeting every 2nd Thursday of the month.
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This man is responsible for finding over 300 uses for the peanut, but not peanut butter.
George Washington Carver
The DC HBCU where biologist and science writer, Ernest E. Just taught biology.
Howard University
Tina K-Lawson’s daughter formerly belonged to this group.
Destiny's Child
The number of Grand Slam (singles) titles that Serena Williams has won.
Hint: This math equation will give you the same number:
(14x22+33)-25/4
23
The Divine 9 organization that Kamala Harris belongs to.
Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA)
In this popular TV series (which just aired its last season), the protagonist often raps to herself in front of her bathroom mirror.
Insecure
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go where?
Outer Space
This inspirational gospel singer performed at President Barack Obama’s first presidential inauguration in 2009. This person is also known as the “Queen of Soul”
Aretha Franklin
A graduate of UNC and principal owner/chairman of the Charlotte Hornets, he was the first NBA player to earn over $30 million a season.
Michael Jordan
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Grandad from the Boondocks was voiced by this late actor, who often referenced his role in the hit movie “Friday”
John Witherspoon
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician nicknamed the “human computer” was essential in launching John Glenn into orbit and restored America’s prestige in the Space Race around the world.
This 2016 movie told the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Three black women essential in the launch.
Hidden Figures
This was the only group to collaborate with both Tupac and Biggie.
Bone Thugs 'N Harmony
This fighter was the first to win the world heavyweight championship on 3 separate occasions, and refused to participate in the 1960’s Vietnam War.
Muhammad Ali
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Henry O Flipper was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point and the first nonwhite officer to command regular troops in what branch of the U.S. military?
US Army
This man said “It is not possible to be in favor for justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people”.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Born and raised in Virginia, Gladys West leveraged her mathematical and programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth which was used as the foundation for the creation of this system that is utilized in most modern smartphones today.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Motown Music derives its name from this famous Detroit nickname.
Motor City
The surname of our 32nd President and the Middle name of Jackie Robinson.
Roosevelt
This black mathematician, scholar, and astronomer was instrumental in designing our capital city in 1792.
Benjamin Banneker
The emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. is commemorated by this holiday marking the date federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and and ensure all enslaved people be freed. The troops arrival came in 1865, two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth
Developed by Charles R. Drew in 1941, this life-saving storage discovery is still utilized in the modern medical world.
Blood Bank