What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?

Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm's aftermath affected African-Americans?

In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part harmony. In 1950 what singer joined this group?

Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English?

What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation‟s first highly popular Black art form?

Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what?

Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”?

After over forty years, who became the second black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

Who founded the DuSable Museum of African-American History, located in Chicago, Illinois?

Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?

Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?

Who founded the magazine Ebony ?

What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on Washington?

What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?

What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?

Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?

In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?

From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate?

Florida A & M University in this state capital is the only HBCU in the State University system of Florida

In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?

What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016?

In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is she?

Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”

Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”?

Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley High Harmony?

Who starred in the movie A Woman Called Moses ?

Eddie Murphy played an African prince in what motion picture?

Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year?

Portrayed by Diana Ross in the film Lady Sings the Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song “Strange Fruit” became her signature piece?

What performer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues?

Who was the star of the 1977 movie The Greatest?

Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal publication Harvard Law Review ?

On January 1, 1863 what significant declaration did President Lincoln issue?

During the 1960s, what erupted in Philadelphia, Chicago, and other major cities due to the turbulent social and political climate?

Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 after six years of planning?

Who founded the first major Black American nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa?

He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he?

What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harper‟s Ferry?

Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party?

Frederick Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights and fought for the ratification of what amendment that guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race?

Key provisions of what federal legislation include Equal Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation, Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of Public Education and Voting Rights?

What US President ended segregation in the US Armed Forces by issuing an Executive Order?

Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army?

Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War?

Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States". After initially being rejected by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This amendment was

In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for President of the United States?

How became the first black Vice President of the United States

In 1983 who became the first black mayor of Chicago, Illinois?

Who was the first Black American senator in Congress?

In 1996 Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative from what state?

Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what year?

These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?

George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what common food item?

The son of a slave and French pirate's mate, what Haitian frontier explorer became a wealthy businessman, owning a large home, stable, barn, smokehouse, workshop, dairy, and trading post?

Who invented the gas mask?

Rush Medical College in this city was the first to graduate a Black American student in 1847. Name the city.

Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what organization‟s blood bank?

Who predicted the eclipse on the sun in 1789?

Working alternately as a laundress and a manicurist in her early life, she started pursuing her passion for aviation after hearing about French female pilots in World War I. Name this aviatrix who became the first black person to earn an international flying license.

St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from what school in 1916?

What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones?

Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention patented by Alexander Graham Bell?

Who holds the record for most points scored in a single basketball game (100)?

At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May

The men‟s basketball team won a Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The team was known as what?

In 1956 Althea Gibson become the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what sport?

What female track star has held world records in the 100 meter and 200 meter dash since 1988?

Who is the only NBA player that had his jersey retired twice?

What Black American was once ranked as the number one tennis player in the world?

These two sisters denominated tennis over the last 20 years

Which Chicago Bulls player won both the MVP and the Defensive player of the year in 1988?

Which basketball player led his team back from a 3-1 NBA Finals defect?

Who was the first black MLB player?

Which NBA player has the most 3 pointers made?

Who became the first Black player to quarterback a Super Bowl team to victory?

In 1926, a group of former basketball players from Chicago’s Wendell Phillips High School reunited to play for the Giles Post American Legion basketball team that barnstormed around the Midwest.

A track and field athlete, won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.