Black History Month

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Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?

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Lauryn Hill

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Which Fortune 500 company recently pledged to move $100 million of its assets to a Black-owned bank? Options: Apple, Netflix, General Motors, Verizon

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Netflix

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__ % of Black Americans start a business

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20

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True or false: there are more female Black-owned businesses than female-owned businesses in the general population.

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True

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Which civil rights activist gained notoriety in the late nineteenth century for her scathing editorials denouncing racial injustice?

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Ida B. Wells

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Who was Coretta Scott Kings' alleged "side piece"?

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Harry Belafonte

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On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy ordered the National Guard to ensure the enrollment of two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, at which university?

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University of Alabama

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Born a slave, she nonetheless became the first published black poet in America.

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Phillis Wheatley

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The Roaring Twenties introduced an unprecedented outpouring of black art, literature and music. What was this period known as?

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Harlem Renaissance

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Famously said on live national television "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

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Kanye West