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Who is Vaughn Williams
He was the first black partner at Skadden.
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What is Jurassic Park.
Computer graphics designer Marc Hannah is known for the creation of computer programs that were used to create effects in this 1993 Steven Spielberg directed blockbuster.
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Who is Rihanna
This artist has had the most number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Who is Malcolm Little
Name Malcolm X’s birth name.
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What is 5
Kobe won this many NBA championships.
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What is President of the United States.
Shirley Chisholm was the first African American, major-party candidate to run for this office in 1972.
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What is GPS (or the Global Positioning System).
Mathematician Gladys Mae West's computer programs in the 1970s and 1980s which delivered increasingly precise models of the shape of the Earth led to this indispensable technology.
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What is Aladdin.
This 2019 surpassed Independence Day as Will Smith's worldwide highest grossing film.
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Who is Frederick Douglass.
The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper, was founded by this famed abolitionist.
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What is 2
Kobe won this many gold medals.
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Who is Thurgood Marshall.
Charles Hamilton Houston earned the title “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow” for crafting the legal strategy to end legalized racial segregation in the U.S., and is credited for having trained and mentored a generation of black attorneys, including this future Supreme Court Justice.
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What is IBM.
Mark Dean helped design the personal computer and holds three of this company's original nine patents.
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What is Vogue.
Beverly Johnson was the first black model to be on the cover of this magazine.
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Who is Booker T. Washington
Born into slavery in 1856, this founding member of the National Negro Business League was the first African American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.
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What is 60
Kobe, ranked fourth on the NBA all-time scoring list, scored this many points in his last game in the NBA.
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What is bus segregation.
Claudette Colvin was one of five plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the case that ended this practice in Alabama.
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What is the 1960s (1966).
Marie Von Brittan Brown invented the first home security system in this decade.
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Who is Toni Morrison
This author was the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Who is Harriet Tubman.
She was the first American woman to lead an armed expedition in war.
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What is an Oscar (or Academy Award).
Kobe won this aware for his short animated film Dear Basketball.
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Who is Condoleezza Rice.
This woman was the first Black American female national security advisor.
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What is Atari.
Self-taught engineer Gerald "Jerry" Lawson invented a video game system that allowed users to play a variety of games using interchangeable cartridges, which was popularized by this video game system manufacturer’s 1977 console.
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What is Howard University.
Name the university that Chadwick Boseman, known for his acting portrayals of Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Black Panther, attended.
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What is Pennsylvania.
Lincoln University, the first university founded for African Americans, is located in this state.
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What is 18.
Kobe made the NBA All-Star Game this many times, second only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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