Black Politics
Lloyd Austin is the first Black person to lead this Cabinet agency.
What is the Department of Defense? (Also acceptable: What is the Pentagon?)
“Black Fed Courts” Professor Fred Smith is visiting from this law school.
What is Emory University School of Law?
This popular rap artist’s name is Cornell Haynes.
Who is Nelly?
She was the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
Earlier this year, this artist became the first woman to debut her first eight albums at number one on the Billboard 200.
Who is Beyonce?
This bald Senator became the first African American elected from the South since the Reconstruction era.
Who is Tim Scott?
This YLS alum was chosen as the namesake of one of the newest residential colleges at Yale.
Who is Pauli Murray?
This “royal” celebrity, born Dana Elaine Owens, was the first hip-hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Who is Queen Latifah?
This Black woman was the first female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
His Monkeypaw Productions has produced popular psychological horror films including Candyman and Nope.
Who is Jordan Peele?
When she took office last year, she became the first Black LGBTQ member of the United States Senate.
Who is Laphonza Butler?
This YLS alum, currently an associate justice on the California Supreme Court, was included on the shortlist to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Leondra Kruger?
This is the name of Prince’s home and studio.
What is Paisley Park?
She was the first Black woman – and first woman – inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Born in Lorain, Ohio as Chloe Anthony Wofford, this Howard-educated writer became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Carol Mosley Braun made history when she became the first Black woman elected to the United States Senate. She represented this state – also the home of another future trailblazing Black politician – from 1993-1999.
What is Illinois?
In this year – the same one in which James Garfield was elected president – Edwin Randolph became the first African-American to graduate from Yale Law School and the first Black person to be admitted to the Connecticut bar.
What is 1880?
97-year Opal Lee is known as the “Godmother” of what US holiday?
What is Juneteenth?
This team hired Jason Wright as the NFL’s first Black team president in 2020 and Jennifer King as the NFL’s first Black woman full-time coach in 2021.
What is the Washington Commanders?
This character was the first Black mainstream superhero.
Who is The Falcon?
This civil rights icon and politician will forever be remembered as having declared in a speech at the 1988 DNC in Atlanta, “keep hope alive!”
Who is Jesse Jackson?
This Black YLS icon's portrait is the most recent to have been hung on the walls of YLS.
Who is Dean Mike Thompson?
Black billionaire Tope Awtona is known for founding this popular software company and scheduling tool.
What is Calendly?
This Black YLS grad is currently serving as the first Black US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Who is Damian Williams?
Drake’s record label OVO stands for this.
What is October’s Very Own?