Who made the stainless-steel sculpture of two wing like shapes framed by neon lights at the entrance of the Miami International Airport?

Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?

Pulitzer Prize winning Black American playwright, August Wilson was born with what name?

Who was the first Black American woman to have a full-length novel published?

What is the full title of the essay “for colored girls” that made its dramatic debut in 1974 and was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay)?

Who was the first Black American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer?

Who wrote the play All God’s Chillun Got Wings starring Paul Robeson?

Who was the Black American artist that created the Peanut Man character for Planters Peanuts?

Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a sculptress?

Who was the Black American cartoonist who became famous for the cartoon “Cuties”?

What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie in 1989?

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

What was the name of James Baldwin’s 1963 bestseller, frequently called The Fire Next Time?

Which Black American performer was depicted in a painting unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII and exhibited at the Paris Expo?

Who became the second Black actor after 40 years to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

Which opera singer sang at President George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2005?

Who is a dancer-choreographer, a director and producer; and was involved with the television show Fame?

Who wrote Appeal, a book of anti-slavery literature?

What was the name of the movie that was based on the life of South African Stephen Bantu Biko?

Who wrote The Lost Zoo, a classic children’s book?

What was the name of the first published novel written by a Black American, William Wells Brown?

Where was Claude McKay a writer during the Harlem Renaissance born?

What was the focus of Alice Walker’s Novel Meridian?

James W.C. Pennington was a slave narrator whose story shows the consequences of slavery on whom?

Who wrote The African Origin of Civilization in 1969?

Who was the first Black American couple was to perform in evening attire, in The Creole Show on Broadway?

Who is the author of “The Destruction of Black Civilization”?

Which Kentucky State University Museum became a major repository for the collection of artifacts, books, and records related to its history of educating black citizens in 1982?

Which 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award becoming the first Black actress nominated?

What subjects did Beauford Delaney liked to paint?

What was the subject of the first novel written by James Balwin in 1953 entitled Go Tell it on the Mountain?

Name three nationally renowned tap dancers of the 20th Century.

Who wrote the book Born to Rebel?

Who was a prolific writer published twenty-three articles, hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg Against Tide & Patterns in 2005?

In 1988 Black American author Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel?

Who was the Hopkinsville native that penned the children's books Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz?

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s?

Bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, graduated from what high school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky?

In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first professional all-black classical ballet company?

What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry written by Gwendolyn Brooks?

In 1982, Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film?

Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, what poet and playwright is nicknamed LeRoi Jones?

Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living poet," what controversial writer, college professor, and political commentator lost his position as New Jersey's poet laureate after fallout from his controversial 9/11-related poem?

Who was the dancer-choreographer who founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations, one of the best known, most often seen modern dance performances?

What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV miniseries Queen?

Who wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"?

Which writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven-generation family from West Africa in the story Roots?

In 1979, Katherine Dunham received what prestigious award?

What type of dance rhythm and movements did Katherine Dunham introduce in America?

Who became the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for a photo of Coretta Scott King and her daughter, Bernice, at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral?

What is the name of director Spike Lee's production company?

Edward Clayton was the first editor of what popular magazine?

How many published slave narratives in book length, newspapers, or transcribed from interviews are archived according to historians?

In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York?

In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first Black American singer at the Metropolitan Opera?

The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper, was founded in New Orleans in what year?

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in what year?

In what year was the first known slave narrative A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man published?

How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published?

How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write?

Miles Davis was a trumpeter of cool jazz, modal jazz, and jazz rock. He served as a bandleader for how many classic quintets in his career?

When was the historically black business North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company founded?

Who became the owner of the first black radio station in Detroit, in 1964?

Who built San Francisco's first hotel and opened California's first public school?

Who was the first Black American appointed to the executive board of the Hopkinsville Chamber of Commerce and also the first to chair the Area Development District in Kentucky?

What is the real name of Famous Amos?

What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans to be imported to the Americas?

What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted Poston, New York Post reporter/author?

What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed in Nicaragua?

While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily Black American newspapers?

In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded a radical monthly magazine called what?

Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded as journalism's "Father of Minorities"?

Who started Parker House Sausage Company in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, and the company celebrated 100 years in 2019?

Who was known as the "Dean of the Negro Newspapermen"?

Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company?

Who founded the record label Roc-A-Fella Records, the clothing line Rocawear, the 40/40 Club, and the sports management group Roc Nation Sports?

Who developed Urban One, one of the biggest Black-owned and operated broadcast organizations in the U.S. with 56 stations?

Who was the first Black woman to head the Fortune 500 company Xerox?

Which American businessman, investor, and television personality is the chief executive officer of FUBU?

Which term was used in the United States from the early 1900s through the early 1960s to express the notion that money spent with businesses hiring Blacks simultaneously purchased a commodity and advanced the race?

Who was the first Black American to become a certified public accountant?

Which privately held technology services provider has an annual revenue of $170 billion, is the 27th largest private company in the U.S., and is the largest Black-owned company in the U.S.?

Who was the first Black man to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc.?

Who was the chairman and founder of World Wide Technology?

Which individual’s list of partnerships reads like a who’s who of the biggest brands in America, from Coca‑Cola and Gatorade to Chevrolet and McDonald’s, and at the end of 2022 was the highest paid athlete of all time with inflation‑adjusted earnings of $3.3 billion?

Which Black American female is one of the most successful businesspeople of any race or gender in America today, whose firm the Act One Group is the first Black‑female‑led company to bring in more than $1 billion in annual revenue?

Who was the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and made national headlines in 2019 when he pledged to pay off student loans for the entire graduating class of Morehouse College?

Who was the first Black patent holder credited with the prototype of modern dry cleaning in 1821?

Who was the first known Black American to graduate from Harvard Business School in 1933?

Who established the first Black‑owned and operated air service in the U.S. in 1969?

Who became the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company when he took over Fannie Mae in 1999?

Who was sworn in as the 18th president of Brown University in 2001, becoming the first Black American president of an Ivy League school?

Who became the first Black American to develop and own a major luxury hotel?

Who is the playwright, actor, and director who created one of the largest major motion picture studios in the U.S. at Fort McPherson Army Base?

Which sisters became the first Black women to become part owners of a National Football League team when they purchased shares in the Miami Dolphins in 2009?

Which TV writer, producer, and creator established her own media company and produced Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton, and Inventing Anna?

What was Madame C. J. Walker’s real name?

Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance Corporation?

Who became the first Black American billionaire in 2001?

Whose career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET) began in 1997 with the launch of the first statewide minority affairs program and continues as producer of KET’s longest‑running public affairs program, Comment on Kentucky?

Who is the successful businessman who was also the founder of Negro Freemasonry?

Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the United States?

In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman was known as “The Richest Negro in the South”?

Patricia Garrison‑Corbin became the first Black American female founder, chair, and chief executive officer of which Wall Street financial services corporation?

Who became the first Black American female billionaire in 2004?

Who was the Hopkinsville native who was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a journalist for the Indianapolis Recorder and Hoosier Herald?

Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff?

What is the name of the first daily newspaper founded by Dr. Louis C. Roudanez in 1864?

Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication similar in form to Reader’s Digest was later replaced by Black World?

What was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson?

In 2002, how many black owned businesses generated revenues of over $88 billion dollars annually in the United States?

What was the name of the first Black American radio network?

What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?

What occupation does Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?

What company’s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?

Who was the first Black network television anchor?

Who was the first Black American woman bank president?

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

Who is the Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company?

Who published the first Black American women’s newspaper in the US?

Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?

Which company was established in 1945, published Ebony and Jet magazines and was the world’s largest black-owned publishing company?

Who was the former slave that founded Baltimore’s newspaper, the Afro-American?

Who founded The Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago in 1945?

Who founded Ebony magazine?

Freedom’s Journal, the first black newspaper published in America, was founded in 1827 in New York City by whom?

In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to control which mainstream daily publication?

Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?

Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed its name to what?

Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship?

During the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade?

What is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s TV production company?

What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door-to-door?

What type of business did Peter Postel Sr., a Union soldier open in Kentucky after the Civil War?

What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States?

The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?

What company was the largest slave-trading operation in the south?

What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?

What was the name of Bill Cosby’s first bestselling book?

What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s Black Woman”?

What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in 1713?

What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes?

What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?

Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970?

Who was the founder of the first Black American female owned Wall Street financial services corporation?

Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of what song in 1920?

From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?

What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music to a large audience?

Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station?