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WorksheetsBlack Excellence in Arts
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who was perhaps the most famous name associated with the renaissance, believed that black artists should focus on the folk and create distinctive ‘Negro’ art?
Countess Vaugn
Savion Glover
Langston Hughes
Curtis Mayfield
What dance form developed from black folk dance was associated with jazz and became an international craze?
Charleston
Cupid Shuffle
Ragtime
Running Man
What style of African American music became a worldwide sensation and amplified the renaissance?
Reggae
Jazz
Blues
R&B
Who founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
Hubert Harrison
Counte Bassie
Ella Fitzgerald
What is the name of the magazine that the NAACP launched in 1910 which published the work of many young African-American writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
The Defender
The Voice
The Suntimes
The Crisis
Which group was one of the greatest female singing groups of all time that released an astonishing 12 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100?
Ella Fitzgerald
Envogue
The Supremes
Destiny's Child
Who was the most important woman in the history of popular music, the “Queen of Soul,” and one of the defining voices of the last 100 years?
Diana Ross
Aretha Franklin
Anita Baker
Gladys Knight
Who combined blues, gospel and R&B?
Beyonce
Jimmy Hendrix
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles
Who evolved as an artist, which took him from basic jazz principles to cool jazz to rock, funk and even hip hop, representing the ever-changing musical landscape of America?
Miles Davis
Billy Dee Williams
Curtis Mayfield
James Baldwin
Who was the biggest pop star and greatest performer of all time not named Elvis Presley?
Michael Jackson
Jackson 5
Curtis Mayfield
Ella Fitzgerald
Who posted dance videos on Vine, which went viral.
Les Twins
Ciara
Beyonce
Leon “Kida” Burns
Who are the identical brothers of French descent that grabbed several hip-hop awards, including the World of Dance in 2010?
Les Twins
Savion Glover
Miles Davis
Paula Abdul
Who is a choreographer and a hip-hop dancer that organized dance routines for famous performers like Janet Jackson and The Jackson’s?
Savion Glover
Michael Jackson
Janet Collins
Paula Abdul
Who co-founded Complexions Contemporary Ballet in 1994?
Curtis Mayfiels
Desmond Richardson
Savion Glover
Kirk Frankly
Who has performed in and choreographed multiple Tony award-winning Broadway shows, and has worked on choreography for a few major films?
Ebony Williams
Kida thed Great
Les Twins
Savion Glover
Who directed the movie “Barbershop”?
Terry Perry
Tim Story
Denzel Washington
Ice Cube
Who was the first African American to publish a book of poems?
Savion Griver
Tina Turner
Analisse
Phillis Wheatley
Who was an author and poet during the Harlem Renaissance. The literary editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis as well as the editor of the children's magazine The Brownies' Book?
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Robert Abbot
Joshua Jonson
Dwayne Johnson
Who was the playwright who won two Pulitzer Prizes for the10 plays he wrote?
Colson Whitehead
Augusta Savage
Curtis Mayfield
August Wilson
Who is the author of the book “The Underground Railroad?”
August Wilson
Colson Whitehead
Anna Duvernay
Augusta Savage
Who was a journalist, poet, and activist?
Frank Marshall Davis
Langston Hughes
Ida B. Wells
Robbert Abbout
Whose artwork was inspired by his experiences with the Civil Rights movement, Watts riots, and the American experience?
Kerry James Marshall
Janet Collins
Faith Ringgold
Charles Henry Alston
Who is the recipient of more than 75 awards including 22 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees?
Faith Ringgold
Bisa Bulter
Sargent Johnson
Charles Henry Alston
Who was committed to creating positive representations of African Americans through cravings?
Miles Davis
Sargent Johnson
Spike Lee
Robert Abbot
Who supervised the WPA murals created at Harlem Hospital, and taught at both the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Students League?
Toni Morrison
Tim Story
Charles Henry Alston
Gwendolyn Brooks
Who is a Brooklyn-based artist that creates contemporary quilts that are life-sized historical portraits of unknown Black people?
Billie Holiday
Bisa Butler
Ella Fitzgerald
Janet Collins
Who was the first black woman director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award?
Ava Duvernay
Janet Collins
Toni Braxton
Aretha Franklin
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Ava Duvernay
Halle Berry
Sidney Poitier
Toni Braxton
Who is the star of Akeelah and the Bee?
Anita Baker
Ava Duvernay
Bisa Butler
Keke Palmer
What horror film won Jordan Peele an Oscar for best
screenplay?
“ Get Out”
"Barbershop"
"Training Day"
"Love and Basketball"
