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What is "You Smell Like Outside"?
Anytime you come back inside from playing, somebody always says...
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What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What movement in the 1920's to mid 30's was the most essential to exploring & exhibiting Black art?
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Who is James Baldwin?
Which activist and novelist is known for producing this famous quote: “ To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in rage almost all the time” ?
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What is Love and Basketball?
This film has the famous quote, “Double or Nothing” & "I'll play for your heart"
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What is break dancing?
This form of dance originated in the early 1970s and is a.k.a. Breaking, b-girling, or b-boying.
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What is "McDonald's Money"?
Driving in the car & you past a certain fast food restaurant
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What is Ernie Barnes?
Who is the illustrator or artist that created the legendary piece ‘The Sugar Shack’ that is in the opening of Good Times?
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Who is Angela Davis?
Which Black activist is the author of Women, Race & Class?
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What is Cadillac Records?
This film has actors depicting real life stories of people like Muddy Waters, Etta James, and Little Walter
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What is Crip Walking?
This dance is a.k.a. C-Walk and originates from Compton, California. It evolved over the years and transformed into a popular hip-hop dance.
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What is "respek"?
You better put this on my name...
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Who is Kara Walker?
What artist/silhouettist is famous or known for their modern twist on older mediums from the civil rights movement?
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Who is Audre Lorde?
Who is the author of the collection of essays and speeches in a book called Sister Outsider?
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Who is Morgan Freeman?
This actor is often depicted as God and never seems to age.
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Who is Fela Kuti?
This Nigerian pioneer developed the genre of Afrobeat around the 1960-70s.
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What is “money is coming your way”?
If your right hand begins to itch, that means…
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Who is Jean-Michele Basquiat?
He is best-known as the street-smart graffiti artist who rose from New York's punk scene. He gained notoriety during the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo known as SAMO,
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What is Frank B. Wilderson III?
Which writer and dramatist is known for their works in the philosophy of Blackness and the theory of ‘Afro-Pessimism’?
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Who is Barry Jenkins?
Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Flint Strong, and Charm City Kings were all directed by this famous director.
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Who is Alvin Alley?
This choreographer popularized modern dance and is most famous for dance of Revelations.
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What is "One of your lil friends"?
Your mama is not one of these.
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Who is Kehinde Wiley?
This notable painter is known most famous for an official presidental portrait of Barack Obama.
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Who is Claude M. Steele?
Which psychology professor and social scientist is best known for their creation of the concept known as “Stereotype Threat”?
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Who is Ava DuVernay?
A Wrinkle in Time, When They See Us, 13th, and Selma were all directed by the famous director.
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Who are the Nicholas Brothers?
These two young men specialized in Tap Dance and were known as Two of the World’s Greatest Dancers.
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