Umoja
Black History
Movies and Books
African Nations
90's Culture
100

Who serves as the Executive Director/CEO of the Umoja Community Education Foundation?

Dr. Eric Mayes

100

The founder of Negro History Week which would eventually become Black History Month.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson

100
In 2018 this movie made $1.3 Billion in the box office world wide.

Black Panther

100

This North African country is home to the Great Pyramids and the Nile River.

Egypt

100

This artist was the star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air".

Will Smith

200

This Umoja experience is meant to develop student leaders and increase their ability to advocate for resources on their campuses.

Student Leadership Summit

200

This revolution in 1791 played a large role in the French selling a large section of land to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.

The Haitian Revolution

200

This author wrote the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

Zora Neale Hurston

200

This West African country was formerly known as the Gold Coast before gaining independence in 1957.

Ghana

200
This artist is none for spreading "California Love" and was a star in "Poetic Justice".

Tupac Shakur

300

How many Umoja Practices are there?

18

300

This was a thriving Black Owned Community in Northern Tulsa, OK with a bus system, movie theater, restaurants, and more.

Greenwood aka Black Wall Street

300

This book by Alex Haley traces the author's lineage back to an African ancestor named Kunta Kinte.

Roots

300

This African Country is the most populous on the continent and is known for its rich oil resources.

Nigeria

300

This sitcom followed four Black women living in New York City.

Living Single

400

The Umoja Community movement began at the Umoja I conference held at Diablo Valley College in October of what year?

2006

400

The first African American Supreme Court Justice appointed in 1967.

Thurgood Marshall

400

This is the author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, and other brilliant Afrofuturist works

Octavia Butler

400

This East African country is known for never being colonized.

Ethiopia

400

This brand was started out of the trunk by shark tank investor Daymond John.

FUBU

500

This person is an Umoja Founder and is known to have embodied the Umoja Practice of "the Ethic of Love"

Dr. Donna Colondres

500

She was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States in 1972.

Shirley Chisholm
500

This person is considered the Father of Black Cinema and directed the first film with an all Black cast , "The Homesteader", in 1919.

Oscar Micheaux

500

This West African Empire was once ruled by Mansa Musa and was known for being rich in gold, salt, and culture.

The Mali Empire

500

This television network in 1980 became the first to primarily feature African American programming.

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