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What is when the street lights come on
The time you better be home by
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What is buy them a pair of shoes
You don't do this for someone because if you do it means they'll leave you
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What is Celle from the Color Purple
poor black and maybe ugly but dear God they still here
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What is Detroit Red
Before he was called Malcolm X a nickname/street name was
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What is Reggae
this music form originated on the Island of Jamaica
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What is mama says she dreamt of fish last night
How mama knows somebody pregnant
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What is put your purse n the floor
If you do this it means you'll stay broke
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Cash Money Brothers or CMB
According to Gee Money this group in New Jack City this group is all we got
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What is Montgomery Alabama
The city where Rosa Parks refused to move the back o of the bus.
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What is YAMS
While the american version of this are called sweet potatoes the african version called nyami led to this thanksgiving staple being called
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What is my ears be itchin
How mama say you somebody must be talking about you
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What is black eyes peas
you eat this on new year's day for good luck
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What is Denzel Washington
King Kong aint got nothin on this actor
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What is 1967
The year interracial marriage was legalized in the United States
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What is Nollywood
A nickname for the Nigerian Film Industry
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What is go on outside and get me a switch
Mama says when you done messed up
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What is if you crack a mirror
you gonna have 7 years of bad luck
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What is SHAFT
He's a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman
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What is April 15
On this day in 1954 Jackie Robinson made his major league debut
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What is Rio De Janiero/Brazil
Both Copacabana and Ipanema names familiarized in great songs are here
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What is what's his/her name or whosamacallit
The name Mama calls your significant other
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What is step on a crack
this breaks your mother back
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What is All her life
how long Sophia had to fight
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What is the glass ceiling
On January 20th 2021 this Vice President Kamala Harris shattered it
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What is Caribana or the Toronto Carribean Carnival
this summer canadian cultural festival
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What is Misty Copeland
In 2015 the American Ballet Theater name her the first black principal dancer
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