Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (754 results returned)

#9042, aired 2024-02-20TAKING FLIGHT $1600: The first African-American woman in space, on her first shuttle mission in 1992, she carried with her a photo of pilot Bessie Coleman Jemison
#9040, aired 2024-02-16NOTABLE NAMES $1600: "Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
#25, aired 2024-01-16IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $400: The mythic Annie Christmas was near 7 feet tall & kept bullies in line on the docks of New Orleans by this river the Mississippi
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $800: The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event a wedding
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $1200: This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature Henry Louis Gates
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $1600: In 1895 the exploits of a mack daddy in St. Louis by the name of "Lee" Shelton gave birth to this oft-recorded blues song "Stagger Lee"
#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $2000: This language also known as Geechee is spoken along the southeastern coast of the United States Gullah
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CAROLS $2000: In 1992, this Democrat from Illinois became the first African-American woman elected to the Senate Carol Moseley Braun
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression
#22, aired 2023-12-06THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1500: Known as the Dean of the Renaissance, Alain Locke was the first African American awarded this scholarship to Oxford University the Rhodes Scholarship
#8932, aired 2023-09-19SUPER TROUPERS $800: This Chicago comedy institution awards a fellowship named for Bob Curry, its first African-American mainstage performer Second City
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones
#8917, aired 2023-07-18AFRICAN FILMS $1600: "Sankofa" features an American transported back in time at Cape Coast Castle near Accra in this West African country Ghana
#8915, aired 2023-07-14TV SHOWS $1200: The original of this series focused on Kevin Arnold; in the reboot, it's an African-American youth named Dean Williams The Wonder Years
#8903, aired 2023-06-28PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He made history in November 2008 when, as the New York Times reported, he swept away "the last racial barrier in American politics" Barack Obama
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: Ruth Simmons, the first African-American Ivy League president, led this Rhode Island school from 2001 to 2012 Brown
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: The first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke was later hailed as "the father of" this NYC creative movement the Harlem Renaissance
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: For her supporting role in "Gone with the Wind", she was the first African-American performer to win an Oscar Hattie McDaniel
#8900, aired 2023-06-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: Inspired by Nichelle Nichols & her "Star Trek" character, she became the first African-American woman in space (Mae) Jemison
#17, aired 2023-05-23BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $800: Seen here are these heroic aviators, the first African-American combat pilots who served during World War II the Tuskegee Airmen
#11, aired 2023-05-16CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $400: Wes Moore was Johns Hopkins' first black Rhodes scholar & in 2022, was elected this state's first African-American governor Maryland
#8868, aired 2023-05-10CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood
#8857, aired 2023-04-25STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass
#8807, aired 2023-02-14COME ON GET HOPPY $600: Commonly associated with African-American weddings is the ritual of "jumping" this cleaning aid broom
#8783, aired 2023-01-11THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY $200: In 1991 Clarence Thomas, the second African American on the Supreme Court, replaced this justice who had been the first (Thurgood) Marshall
#8779, aired 2023-01-05THE LIFE OF RILEY $2000: Mortally wounded in action in Vietnam in 1967, Captain Riley Pitts became the first African-American officer to receive this the Medal of Honor
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison
#8, aired 2022-11-13AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1200: William the this ruled England; High John the this is a figure of liberation in African-American folklore Conqueror
#8732, aired 2022-11-01PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway (Lorraine) Hansberry
#8730, aired 2022-10-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: In 1947 he broke the color barrier & became the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball (Jackie) Robinson
#8730, aired 2022-10-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: The American Ballet Theater's first black female principal dancer, she was also the first to dance "Swan Lake" for the ABT (Misty) Copeland
#8730, aired 2022-10-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: He was the first African American to serve as National Security Advisor & as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Colin) Powell
#8730, aired 2022-10-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A-tisket a-tasket, in 1959 she won a Grammy for her basket, the first African-American woman to do so Fitzgerald
#8730, aired 2022-10-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: A Florida educator & college founder, she is the first African American to represent a state in Statuary Hall McLeod Bethune
#8725, aired 2022-10-21SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $2000: After getting KO'd by Max Schmeling in 1936, this African-American heavyweight took just 2 minutes & 4 seconds to win the rematch Joe Louis
#8716, aired 2022-10-10NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $1200: The first African American honored by the U.S. with a national monument was this botanist in 1943 Carver
#3, aired 2022-10-091992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1200: This Terry McMillan bestseller centers on 4 African-American women living in Phoenix & their challenges with men & life Waiting to Exhale
#8714, aired 2022-10-06WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In 2015 this African-American prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town" Misty Copeland
#8714, aired 2022-10-06INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS $2000: This alliterative phrase for a negligible sum of money began as African-American slang chump change
#8705, aired 2022-09-23TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $400: In 2022, Charles McGee, who flew 130+ missions for this elite African-American group in WWII, passed away at 102 the Tuskegee Airmen
#8701, aired 2022-09-19JACK $2000: In 1908 he defeated Tommy Burns to become the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson
#8697, aired 2022-09-131960s AMERICA $1000: In 1962 James Meredith became the first African-American student at this Southern university the University of Mississippi
#8660, aired 2022-06-10NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $400: George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s the Pony Express
#8659, aired 2022-06-09WORDS OF COMFORT $2000: Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto copacetic
#8657, aired 2022-06-07THE CABINET $400: In 1966 Robert C. Weaver became the first African-American cabinet member, heading this department known by a 3-letter acronym the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
#8653, aired 2022-06-01U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $200: In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell
#8652, aired 2022-05-31MAYORS $800: London Breed is this California city's first African-American woman mayor San Francisco
#8645, aired 2022-05-20DISEASES $1600: Mary Styles Harris helped lead the fight against this type of anemia; its trait is in about 8% of African-American births sickle cell anemia
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night
#8618, aired 2022-04-13BOOK 'EM $800: African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this a Sandwich
#8611, aired 2022-04-04BIRTH OF A WRITER $3,400 (Daily Double): Georgia was the birthplace of this 1980s Pulitzer Prize winner, the 8th child of African-American sharecroppers Alice Walker
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $200: Giving dap began among soldiers in this war when the Black power salute was banned; some say the greeting stands for dignity & pride the Vietnam War
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: The tradition of Black women wearing beautiful, decorated these to church is partly rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:5 a hat
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $600: Making up the Natl. Pan-Hellenic Council, the "Divine Nine" consists of these 2 types of group, the oldest dating to 1906 fraternities & sororities
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Watch Night is a New Year's Eve tradition dating back to the eve of January 1, 1863, the date this took effect the Emancipation Proclamation
#8607, aired 2022-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1000: An online ancestry project is named for this, a West African storyteller who maintains a family's oral history a griot
#8583, aired 2022-02-23BROOM SERVICE $1000: This African-American wedding tradition was featured in the miniseries "Roots" jumping the broom
#7, aired 2022-02-11COMMENCEMENT $400: In 1907 Harvard grad Alain Locke became the first African-American recipient of one of these Oxford awards the Rhodes Scholarship
#8567, aired 2022-02-01READ IT OR EAT IT? $1600: Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood A Raisin in the Sun
#8566, aired 2022-01-31BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $200: A Wesleyan residence is named for this African-American leader; a cultural center at Mount Holyoke, for his wife Betty Shabazz Malcolm X
#8566, aired 2022-01-31BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University
#8560, aired 2022-01-21EXPLORERS $800: African-American explorer Matthew Henson was co-discoverer of the North Pole, along with this man (Robert) Peary
#8560, aired 2022-01-21WHO "E" $1000: The first African American to hold the post of U.S. Surgeon General, she served in 1993 & 1994 (Joycelyn) Elders
#8556, aired 2022-01-17HOLMES & WATSON $400: At Jarama in 1937 anti-fascist Alonzo Watson became the first African American killed in this country's Civil War Spain
#8548, aired 2022-01-05YOUR PARADE $400: In August 1929 this city's Defender newspaper began its Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African-American parade in the United States Chicago
#8546, aired 2022-01-03AMERICAN POETRY $800: In 1987 Gwendolyn Brooks wrote "Winnie" about this South African woman Winnie Mandela
#8544, aired 2021-12-30THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $400: Lawyer admitted to practice before this body was John S. Rock on Feb. 1, 1865 the Supreme Court
#8544, aired 2021-12-30THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $800: New York Yankee, Elston Howard was also one of the first to model for this men's magazine now known by just 2 letters GQ
#8544, aired 2021-12-30THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $1200: General in this service was Benjamin O. Davis Jr., son of the first African-American U.S. Army general the Air Force
#8544, aired 2021-12-30THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $1600: To manage the campaign of a major party presidential nominee, was this woman seen here Donna Brazile
#8544, aired 2021-12-30THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $2000: To sing at this music festival was Grace Bumbry, as Venus in "Tannhauser" Bayreuth
#8543, aired 2021-12-29I AM WOMAN $1200: In 2020 this trailblazing African-American ballerina published a book for kids called "Bunheads" Misty Copeland
#8542, aired 2021-12-28THE SPACE PROGRAM $1000: It was "Mae" in September 1992 when she became the first African-American woman in space onboard the Endeavour (Mae) Jemison
#8536, aired 2021-12-20O HOLY KNIGHT $1000: Minister Thomas W. Stringer formed the African-American version of the "Knights of" him, Damon's friend Pythias
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: James McBride got the title of this bestseller from his mother, whom he once asked, "What color is God's spirit?" The Color of Water
#8526, aired 2021-12-06MAGAZINES $1000: "Lifestyle, fashion & beauty" is the nature of this "magazine for African-American women" Essence
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: "While Justice Sleeps" is the first novel under her own name by this Georgia voting rights activist & romance novelist Stacey Abrams
#8526, aired 2021-12-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: After killing off this private detective in "Blonde Faith", Walter Mosley resurrected him in "Little Green" Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins
#8516, aired 2021-11-22TV COMEDY SKETCHES $2000: Him as blind African-American white supremacist Clayton Bigsby Dave Chappelle
#8494, aired 2021-10-21SPORTS BOOKS $600: "Levels of the Game" is John McPhee's book about one 1968 tennis match between Clark Graebner & this African-American champion Arthur Ashe
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Nichelle Nichols, who shared one of TV's first interracial kisses with William Shatner, & who would later help NASA recruit more women & minorities for the space program, wore this uniform as Lieutenant Uhura on this series Star Trek
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys The Wiz
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) You can't miss the 1973 Cadillac convertible, owned by this rock pioneer, who influenced so many early performers, including The Beatles, & he drove the car in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll", a documentary that celebrated his 60th birthday Chuck Berry
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) This costume was worn by Diana Ross in her Oscar-nominated role as jazz great Billie Holiday in this film based on Holiday's autobiography of the same name Lady Sings the Blues
#8477, aired 2021-09-28ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The 1943 film, "Stormy Weather", featured some of the greatest Black entertainers of the day, including Bill Robinson, Dooley Wilson, & of course, this beloved actress & singer, then in her 20s, who wore this green velvet dress & sang the title song (Lena) Horne
#8476, aired 2021-09-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $400: This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half" passing
#8476, aired 2021-09-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $800: "Singin' and Swingin and "Gettin' Merry like Christmas" is the title of her third autobiography Maya Angelou
#8476, aired 2021-09-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois
#8476, aired 2021-09-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison
#8476, aired 2021-09-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $2000: The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, this Chicago poet was featured on a 2012 stamp Gwendolyn Brooks
#8472, aired 2021-09-21AWARDS & PRIZES $1600: Given to persons of African descent & American citizenship, it's the NAACP's highest honor Spingarn (the Spingarn Medal)
#8461, aired 2021-08-09HISTORIC NAMES $2000: An astronomer & mathematician, this African-American with an alliterative name helped survey they area that became Washington, D.C. (Benjamin) Banneker
#8455, aired 2021-07-30AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Established to help 4 million African Americans transition out of slavery, this bureau lasted from 1865 to 1872 the Freedmen's Bureau
#8437, aired 2021-07-06AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1200: The first African American to fight in this corps, John Martin helped capture 5 ships in a Revolutionary War attack the Marine Corps
#8435, aired 2021-07-02ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE $800: The double-vowel spelling of this African-American festival matches the 7 principles it's based on Kwanzaa
#8419, aired 2021-06-10FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man" Alvin Ailey
#8415, aired 2021-06-04AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980 BET (Black Entertainment Television)
#8415, aired 2021-06-04AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: One of the great stunt pilots of the 1920s, she was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license Bessie Coleman
#8406, aired 2021-05-24FLAGS $600: The American flag has 7 red & 6 white stripes, while the similar flag of this African country has 6 red & 5 white stripes Liberia
#8402, aired 2021-05-18STAND-UP COMEDIANS $400: On the cover of this great African-American comic's 1968 debut album, his mustache is a shadow of what it would become Pryor
#8401, aired 2021-05-17CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: This Czech composer's "New World Symphony" was influenced by Native American music & African-American spirituals Dvořák
#8396, aired 2021-05-10SHORT STORIES $1600: This African American who sometimes lived in France wrote a 1965 collection called "Going to Meet the Man" James Baldwin
#8391, aired 2021-05-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 2019 former MVP Maya Moore stepped away from playing in this league to work on criminal justice reform the WNBA
#8391, aired 2021-05-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper a comic strip
#8391, aired 2021-05-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her the House Un-American Activities Committee
#8391, aired 2021-05-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech trying to integrate the Miss. delegation at this 1964 gathering made LBJ scramble to get her off the air Democratic National Convention
#8391, aired 2021-05-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate Texas
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $200: In "Up from Slavery" Booker T. Washington goes to this Alabama town expecting to find helpful things like a building to teach in, but no Tuskegee
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $600: This star of HBO's "Insecure" wrote of "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl" Issa Rae
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $800: "Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss Vernon Jordan
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $1000: Framed as a letter to his son, "Between" these 2 things won Ta-Nehisi Coates a National Book Award the World and Me
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $1,800 (Daily Double): He writes about the depression he faced during his 1991 confirmation hearings in "My Grandfather's Son" Clarence Thomas
#8374, aired 2021-04-08WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000: The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005 Marian Anderson
#8368, aired 2021-03-31AT THE MOVIES $800: This 2016 movie is about a young African American named Chiron, whom we see as a young boy, as a teen & as a 20-something Moonlight
#8359, aired 2021-03-18PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington
#8347, aired 2021-03-02SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS $600: South African Gary Player was the first non-American to receive this association's lifetime achievement award the PGA
#8343, aired 2021-02-24CRACKER JACKS $800: One Jack named this was the first African American heavyweight champ; the other, a surfer turned rocker Jack Johnson
#8332, aired 2021-02-09ENGINEERING $2000: (Erica Joy Baker presents the clue.) Mae Jemison got her start in the sciences with a degree in chemical engineering before becoming the first African-American woman in space as an MS--this kind of astronaut conducting experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour a mission specialist
#8327, aired 2021-02-02OLD NEWSPAPERS $400: Published in this southern city beginning in 1856, the Daily Creole was the first African-American daily newspaper New Orleans
#8327, aired 2021-02-02AMERICAN NAMES $600: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman Maya Angelou
#8319, aired 2021-01-21CLEVELAND: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Chris Frye from WOIO.) In 1967, Cleveland voters chose Democrat Carl Stokes over Republican Seth Taft, making Stokes the first African American to hold this office in one of America's major cities mayor
#8315, aired 2021-01-15ENTERTAINING BROTHERS $1600: Singers Bill Medley & Bobby Hatfield called their duo this after the reaction they got from African-American audiences The Righteous Brothers
#8308, aired 2021-01-06YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $2,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch chief of staff
#8293, aired 2020-12-02THE HIP-HOP ERA $400: This 2015 hip-hop biopic was for a time the highest-grossing film with an African-American director, F. Gary Gray Straight Outta Compton
#8288, aired 2020-11-25THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $3,000 (Daily Double): nul.org is the website for this organization that's been working for African Americans & civil rights since 1910 the National Urban League
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: One of the oldest repositories of African-American history, the DuSable Museum is a fixture of this Midwest city's South Side Chicago
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Arturo Schomburg's collection in a branch of the N.Y. Public Library in this Manhattan area contributed to a renaissance there Harlem
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this the Underground Railroad
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1870 Hiram Revels was almost blocked as the first African-American in this job because he hadn't been a citizen for 9 years a senator
#8284, aired 2020-11-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line
#8283, aired 2020-11-18'90s NEWSMAKERS $2000: Replacing Ed Koch in 1990, he became New York City's first African American mayor (David) Dinkins
#8273, aired 2020-11-04CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $400: (Michelle Marsh presents from outside the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) Hi, I'm Michelle Marsh from ABC7: this Georgia congressman and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement began pushing for an African-American History Museum in the 1980s, and at the 2016 dedication said he felt like singing Mahalia Jackson's "How We Got Over" John Lewis
#8258, aired 2020-10-14AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: To write her play "Twilight", Anna Deavere Smith interviewed 350 people who experienced the 1992 riots in this city Los Angeles
#8258, aired 2020-10-14AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House" a shotgun shack
#8258, aired 2020-10-14AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1200: Novelist Marita Golden paid homage to this woman in an essay called "Zora & Me" Hurston
#8258, aired 2020-10-14AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1600: This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes
#8258, aired 2020-10-14AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2000: In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman Walter Mosley
#8248, aired 2020-09-30MUSICAL STYLES $200: Though lesser known than Joplin, African American James Scott was one of the great composers in this musical style ragtime
#8240, aired 2020-09-18ALTRUISTIC ATHLETES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture.) The Game Changers Hall bears the name of this Chicago legend who donated $5 million to the museum; as of 2017, he was still ranked by "Forbes" as the highest-earning athlete of all time (Michael) Jordan
#8232, aired 2020-06-09MARQUEE "MOON" $600: 2016, about an African-American boy growing to manhood in Florida Moonlight
#8231, aired 2020-06-08A NATIONAL MONUMENT-AL CHALLENGE $600: Including the nickname of African-American troops, an Ohio site is named Charles Young these Soldiers National Monument Buffalo
#8227, aired 2020-06-02DOCUMENTARIES $800: Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" tells of the horrific bombing in 1963 of an African American church in this Alabama city Birmingham
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The National Museum of African American History & Culture opened in 2016 as part of this museum complex the Smithsonian
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: These 2 Atlanta colleges were both founded soon after the Civil War & "Spelhouse" marriages between alums are not rare Morehouse & Spelman
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests a sit-in
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Now 115 years old, the Chicago Defender isn't a Bears safety but one of the oldest of these for African Americans a newspaper
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal)
#8214, aired 2020-04-30NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The 2012 film "Red Tails" tells the story of the WWII African-American flyers known as these airmen the Tuskegee Airmen
#8196, aired 2020-04-06CELEBRITY LECTURES $2000: This director & writer of "Do the Right Thing" taught African-American cinema at Harvard (Spike) Lee
#8187, aired 2020-03-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $200: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) My inspirations for standup comedy include Chappelle, Pryor, Rock & this mentor & friend; the "Ice Creaaaam!" bit alone in "Delirious" in 1983, legendary Eddie Murphy
#8187, aired 2020-03-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 2002 she won an Oscar for "Monster's Ball" Halle Berry
#8187, aired 2020-03-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $600: Tracee Ellis Ross of "black-ish" is the daughter of this supreme-ly talented woman Diana Ross
#8187, aired 2020-03-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $800: She was hilarious in 2009, headlining the first White House Correspondents' Dinner under President Obama (Wanda) Sykes
#8187, aired 2020-03-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1000: This "How to Get Away with Murder" actress graduated from Juilliard in 1993 & is an Emmy, Oscar & Tony award winner Viola Davis
#8159, aired 2020-02-13FEBRUARY $400: According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore African-American History Month
#8155, aired 2020-02-07CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $400: In 1958 African-American activist Clennon King was sent to an asylum for trying to register at this state U. in Oxford University of Mississippi
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring & out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964; in the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this & became an example of Black pride & defiance of the establishment Cassius Clay
#8151, aired 2020-02-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder; in a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest living ballplayer Willie Mays
#8135, aired 2020-01-10BEFORE & AFTER $400: South African host of "The Daily Show" who came up with an American dictionary of the English language Trevor Noah Webster
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1940, for her role in this film, Hattie McDaniel became the first black performer to win an Oscar Gone with the Wind
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The 1st African-American woman to win Olympic gold, Alice Coachman cleared 5'6 1/8" in this track & field event in 1948 the high jump
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: A 1957 study of the middle class, with the alliterative title "The Black" this group, traced it to 1865 & the Freedmen's Bank the Bourgeoisie
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: This 1960s alliterative slogan has roots in an 1858 speech that mentioned "rich color" & "full broad features" "Black is beautiful"
#8132, aired 2020-01-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): When Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963, he was the Mississippi field secretary of this national organization the NAACP
#2, aired 2020-01-07GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $1000: "Kindred", about an African-American woman transported back to a plantation in antebellum Maryland, is a novel by this author (Octavia) Butler
#8118, aired 2019-12-18BRIDE & PREJUDICE $2000: This African-American singer & actress kept her 1947 marriage to white bandleader Lennie Hayton secret due to prejudice Lena Horne
#8103, aired 2019-11-27CELEBRITY ARTISTS $2000: Among this African-American actor's paintings are self-portraits as Lando Calrissian "Billy Dee" Williams
#8100, aired 2019-11-22WINDY CITY POLITICS $1600: From 1915 to 1917 Oscar de Priest sat on Chicago's city council after becoming the first African American elected to this post alderman
#8088, aired 2019-11-06THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $800: In 2018 this R&B singer lived up to his (stage) name, becoming an EGOT, the first African-American man to do so John Legend
#8065, aired 2019-10-04FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY $800: Clay was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which helped create this African nation Liberia
#8040, aired 2019-07-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", a search for a missing woman in this West Coast city reveals scandalous secrets Los Angeles
#8040, aired 2019-07-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison & Ta-Nehisi Coates all attended this university in Washington, D.C. Howard
#8040, aired 2019-07-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia
#8040, aired 2019-07-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh August Wilson
#8040, aired 2019-07-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: 1938's "Uncle Tom's Children" was the first book by this "Native Son" author (Richard) Wright
#8035, aired 2019-07-12LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $400: The Federal Theater Project mounted an all-African-American version of this Shakespeare play set in Haiti instead of Scotland Macbeth
#8032, aired 2019-07-09NEW TV $2000: Cress Williams plays the titular African-American electrical superhero on this CW series Black Lightning
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $200: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies Ali
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $400: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford a Rhodes Scholarship
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $800: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist James Baldwin
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $1000: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist Clarence Thomas
#8005, aired 2019-05-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman Harriet Tubman
#7976, aired 2019-04-22I WROTE IT $1200: "Invisible Man", a classic of African-American lit Ralph Ellison
#7954, aired 2019-03-21INVENTED IN THE 1800s $200: By African-American dentist George Grant, a wooden one of these that "elevated" the game of golf a tee
#7950, aired 2019-03-15THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $1600: Imani Perry went "Looking for Lorraine", this African-American playwright & activist who died all too young at 34 Lorraine Hansberry
#7946, aired 2019-03-11NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $1200: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) To help protect First Amendment rights, in 1981 I founded People for the American Way with this African-American congresswoman from Texas Barbara Jordan
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $400: She's played a Desperate Housewife & the scheming Wilhemina on "Ugly Betty" (Vanessa) Williams
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $800: Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce & Anika Noni Rose are the singing trio in this film adaptation of a Broadway show Dreamgirls
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1200: The mom of TV's Huxtable family, in 2004 she became the first black actress to win the Tony for a leading role in a play Phylicia Rashad
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1600: Maidie Norman, the maid who got offed by Bette Davis in this 1962 film, rewrote her lines so they wouldn't sound so stereotypical What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
#7938, aired 2019-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Awarded an honorary Oscar in 2018, she has a 6-decade acting career that includes "Roots" & "The Help" Cicely Tyson
#7925, aired 2019-02-08BYE AGAIN, GEORGE! $2000: This Illinois senator who read the address in 1994 noted she was the first American of African descent to be so honored Carol Moseley Braun
#7911, aired 2019-01-21BUST A MOVIE $2000: In "Bustin' Loose" this late African-American comedian played an ex-con helping kids Richard Pryor
#7910, aired 2019-01-18AFRICAN CAPITALS $2,400 (Daily Double): The American Colonization Society founded this city that now neighbors Bushrod Island Monrovia
#7886, aired 2018-12-1775 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $800: In 1971 this African American's dance company moved downtown to City Center where they still perform today Alvin Ailey
#7882, aired 2018-12-11POSTHUMOUS BOOKS $1600: This African-American author's long-awaited second novel "Juneteenth" appeared in 1999 Ralph Ellison
#7863, aired 2018-11-14NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: The first African-American Secretary of State, he passed the baton to another, Condoleezza Rice (Colin) Powell
#7850, aired 2018-10-26PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2016 Carla Hayden became the first woman & first African-American in this D.C. post & naturally was sworn in on a book the Librarian of Congress
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Heman Sweatt integrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this equal
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the G.O.P. were the first black holders of this post chairman of the party
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1968 at this school, SFSU for short, Nathan Hare created the USA's first black studies program San Francisco State University
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Despite the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she made many trips back to Maryland to aid liberations Harriet Tubman
#7845, aired 2018-10-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In a series, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted this "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century the Great Migration
#7815, aired 2018-07-27THE U.S. CONGRESS WITH NANCY PELOSI $2000: (Nancy Pelosi reads the clue.) In 2009, I proudly unveiled the Capitol portrait of this first African-American woman elected to Congress, who said she wanted to be remembered as a catalyst for change Shirley Chisholm
#7792, aired 2018-06-26REMEMBER THE LADIES $1000: The first drama by an African-American woman produced on Broadway was her "A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry
#7790, aired 2018-06-22LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem
#7786, aired 2018-06-18REVOLUTION NOW! $600: "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton the Black Panthers
#7773, aired 2018-05-30POLITICO $1000: Coleman Young was the longest-serving mayor of this city & its first African-American mayor Detroit
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $400: In 1875 Oliver Lewis became the first African-American jockey to win this race known as the "Run for the Roses" the Kentucky Derby
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The first black winter Olympic gold medalist, Vonetta Flowers won as a brake woman in this event in 2002 bobsled
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennis great Althea Gibson was also the first African American on the tour of this association in another sport the LPGA
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $1600: In 1952 this Dodgers catcher became the first African American to be featured on a Wheaties box (Roy) Campanella
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $2000: The first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl was this man who led the Colts to victory in 2007 (Tony) Dungy
#7760, aired 2018-05-11SHE DID IT! $800: In 2015 she made history as the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater Misty Copeland
#7757, aired 2018-05-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: Her win for 2001 was the first Best Actress Oscar for an African-American Halle Berry
#7757, aired 2018-05-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: In 1983 Guy Bluford became the first African American to go here space
#7757, aired 2018-05-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1908 he knocked out Tommy Burns to become the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title Jack Johnson
#7757, aired 2018-05-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: A year after his admission sparked a deadly riot, James Meredith became the first black graduate of this university University of Mississippi
#7757, aired 2018-05-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: The first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1968 she was named poet laureate of Illinois Gwendolyn Brooks
#7726, aired 2018-03-26AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $2000: Military engagements authorized by Congress include the 1801 First & 1815 Second of these African wars the Barbary Wars
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 this author created the Kinte foundation Alex Haley
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler
#7699, aired 2018-02-15THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $800: The first African-American actor to play the Phantom on Broadway, Norm Lewis donned the mask to perform this iconic song "Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light..." "The Music Of The Night"
#7689, aired 2018-02-01BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1200: In 1957, she became the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon Althea Gibson
#7662, aired 2017-12-26TV MOVIES $600: Laurence Fishburne led the first unit of African-American fighter pilots in this HBO movie named for them The Tuskegee Airmen
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou
#7644, aired 2017-11-30CEREMONIES $1,400 (Daily Double): In an African-American wedding tradition, the bride & groom do this to symbolically sweep away the past jump the broom
#7643, aired 2017-11-29TV SETTINGS $800: The prestigious African-American-owned law firm of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad in Chicago The Good Fight
#7640, aired 2017-11-24DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: In his novel "Devil in a Blue Dress", he introduced Easy Rawlins, an African-American detective in 1940s Los Angeles Walter Mosley
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Rewards totaling over $10,000 were reportedly offered for the capture of this woman called the "Moses of Her People" Harriet Tubman
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job Loretta Lynch
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: This singer entertained us from the 1930s into the '90s; enjoy some of her genius now Ella Fitzgerald
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP Myrlie Evers
#7615, aired 2017-10-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Last name of N.Y. congresswoman Shirley, the first African American to mount a serious run for president from a major party Chisholm
#7608, aired 2017-10-11THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $2000: The 5-word title of this hymn, which many call the African-American national anthem, precedes "til earth and heaven ring" "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The bus boycott protesting segregation in this Alabama city lasted for more than a year Montgomery
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) The powder horn belonged to one of 10,000 African-Americans who fought at battles like Monmouth in this war; to them, liberty was not just an abstract concept, but something they personally craved and hoped would be granted by the winning side, and in some cases, it was the American Revolution
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Abbreviated the CBC, it was formed by 13 African Americans elected to the U.S. House in 1970 the Congressional Black Caucus
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This NYC venue where Ella Fitzgerald was discovered opened in 1914 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater the Apollo
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1985 this state elected Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder as its first African-American statewide officeholder Virginia
#7589, aired 2017-09-14THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $400: This lawyer was confirmed as the 96th justice & first African American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall
#7559, aired 2017-06-22RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $600: This story of the African-American women who helped launch the U.S. space program became a 2016 film Hidden Figures
#7556, aired 2017-06-19WHO THEY SERVED $800: (I'm Michael Steele.) As Robert Ehrlich's running mate in 2002, I was elected the first African-American lt. governor of this mid-Atlantic state Maryland
#7552, aired 2017-06-13THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: 3 African-American women were in the first class of 1973: Mary Bethune, Harriet Tubman & this opera singer Marian Anderson
#7547, aired 2017-06-06AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors the Croix de guerre
#7544, aired 2017-06-01MUSICALLY TITLED LIT $1600: A classic of African-American lit gets its title from this Billie Holiday song that says, "Mama may have..." "God Bless The Child"
#7538, aired 2017-05-24HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) As director of a center for integrative medicine, I appreciate a pioneer of integrated medicine, the African-American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, who in 1893 sutured a man's pericardium, becoming one of the first Americans to perform this then-risky type of surgery open-heart surgery
#7523, aired 2017-05-03WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In "The Women of" this location, Gloria Naylor wove together the stories of 7 African-American women The Women of Brewster Place
#7518, aired 2017-04-26AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The Supreme Court reached a low with its 1857 decision on this slave's case: African Americans were not & could not be U.S. citizens Dred Scott
#7505, aired 2017-04-07THE EXPLORERS CLUB $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) These seal-skinned mittens with polar bear fur inserts were made by an Inuit woman for this polar explorer, who in 1937 became the first African American admitted to the Explorers Club Matthew Henson
#7500, aired 2017-03-31BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This giant of African-American lit was named after another literary great: Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Ellison
#7482, aired 2017-03-07WAY BACK IN 2015 $600: On April 23 Loretta Lynch was confirmed & became the first African-American woman to hold this position Attorney General
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel The Color Purple
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: If you're only going to publish one novel in your lifetime, make it worth it, like this man did with "Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This bestseller by Ta-Nehisi Coates is in the form of a letter to his son on race & life Between the World and Me
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1845 "Narrative of the Life of" this man was published just 7 years after he escaped slavery Frederick Douglass
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: This author of "The Bluest Eye" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010 Toni Morrison
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday Kwanzaa
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee Queen Victoria
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) "Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket on display here after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city Montgomery
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X
#7459, aired 2017-02-02EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: In 2015 she became the first African-American woman to win for Lead Actress in a Drama Series Viola Davis
#7430, aired 2016-12-23IN THE HIGHEST $1600: "For the highest achievement of an American of African descent", the NAACP awards this medal annually the Spingarn Medal
#7428, aired 2016-12-21WORKING WOMEN $200: The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns became its CEO in 2009; copy that! Xerox
#7416, aired 2016-12-05NAME THAT NOUN $800: Z: African-American dance music of Louisiana zydeco
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The German model 1902 field Howitzer could hurl a 95-pound shell nearly 5 miles; because of their power & black smoke, the incoming rounds got this nickname among the allied troops after the hard-hitting African-American heavyweight champion of the era Jack Johnson
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "My Bondage and My Freedom" from 1855 is his second autobiography Frederick Douglass
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God
#7334, aired 2016-06-30HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: African-American scientist: "The Sweet Potato Man" (George Washington) Carver
#7305, aired 2016-05-20WOMEN IN CHARGE $400 (Daily Double): As CEO of Sam's Club, Rosalind Brewer became the first woman & the first African American to head a unit of this corp. the Walmart corporation
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The title character in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" moves from the Deep South to this New York City district Harlem
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title "Place", this time giving "The Men" a chance to be heard from Brewster Place
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress" saw the 1st appearance of this "effortless" detective in 1940s Los Angeles Easy Rawlins
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Anthony is the middle name of this award-winning author who released her 11th novel, "God Help the Child", in 2015 Toni Morrison
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo" If He Hollers Let Him Go
#7279, aired 2016-04-14RANCHING AS IT WAS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) After the Civil War, many African-American families rented & tended plots of land in exchange for a portion of the agriculture they grew, a system called "tenant farming", or this sharecropping
#7278, aired 2016-04-13THE HILL, HULL & HALL OF FAME $800: It's not a secret that in the 1770s Prince Hall founded the first African-American one of these lodges a Masonic lodge
#7266, aired 2016-03-28REPUBLICANS $1000: In 2009 he became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele
#7265, aired 2016-03-25A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1600: He's the first African American from New Jersey to serve in the U.S. Senate Cory Booker
#7226, aired 2016-02-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas Topeka
#7226, aired 2016-02-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington
#7226, aired 2016-02-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Joseph Cinque led a successful slave rebellion aboard this ship in 1839 the Amistad
#7226, aired 2016-02-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: A prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Zora Neale) Hurston
#7226, aired 2016-02-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization the Metropolitan Opera
#7204, aired 2015-12-311940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright
#7198, aired 2015-12-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This phrase of protest coined by Alicia Garza has become a hashtag & a movement Black Lives Matter
#7198, aired 2015-12-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite The Nutcracker
#7198, aired 2015-12-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C. Howard University
#7198, aired 2015-12-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Porter on the train cars named for him was a good middle-class job, though you got called "George" whatever your name was (George) Pullman
#7198, aired 2015-12-23AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: 2013 saw the first Congress with 2 African-American senators when Mo Cowan of Mass. served with Tim Scott of this state South Carolina
#7174, aired 2015-11-19SNL ALUMNI $1200: SNL's first African-American cast member, he became a regular on "2 Broke Girls" (Garrett) Morris
#7173, aired 2015-11-18PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM RECIPIENTS $400: The first African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was later Secretary of State (Colin) Powell
#7172, aired 2015-11-17"A"UTHORS $1200: "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" is one of the memoirs by this African-American woman who died in 2014 (Maya) Angelou
#7167, aired 2015-11-10DIVINE COMEDIES $200: Anthony Anderson worries that his African-American family has lost touch with its culture in this ABC comedy Black-ish
#7165, aired 2015-11-06NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK $800: In 2015 this African-American journalist became the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" (Lester) Holt
#7151, aired 2015-10-19COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This historically African-American institution was originally founded as the Atlanta Baptist female seminary in 1881 Spelman College
#7122, aired 2015-07-28HISTORY SINCE 1950 $400: This first African-American Attorney General said he was quitting in 2014 but was still on the job in 2015 Eric Holder
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $400: In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914 the Apollo
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $800: In 1977 poet & author Maya Angelou appeared in this TV miniseries Roots
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1200: One of the first black performers signed to a long-term Hollywood contract, this singer/actress died in 2010, age 92 Lena Horne
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1600: In 1997 15 members of Parliament & Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with this leader George Clinton
#7083, aired 2015-06-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $2000: In 1967, she played the title matchmaker, leading an all-black cast on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly!" Pearl Bailey
#7074, aired 2015-05-21"C" IN SCIENCE $1200: African-American chemist Percy Julian invented a synthetic form of this adrenal hormone & "miracle drug" cortisone
#7069, aired 2015-05-14OTHER FIRST LADIES $600: Her "Monster's Ball" role made her the first African-American Oscar winner for Best Actress Halle Berry
#7037, aired 2015-03-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: Born in Oklahoma City in 1914, he was named for the Transcendentalist author of "Self-Reliance" Ralph Ellison
#7037, aired 2015-03-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote 2 novels: "Not Without Laughter" & "Tambourines to Glory" (Langston) Hughes
#7037, aired 2015-03-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His relationship with his minister stepfather provided the basis for his 1953 novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin
#7037, aired 2015-03-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: In 2014 this former stand-up comic released his 21st novel, "A Wanted Woman" Eric Jerome Dickey
#7037, aired 2015-03-31AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $7,000 (Daily Double): She won a 1993 Grammy for her reading of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Angelou
#7021, aired 2015-03-09WHAT A COUNTRY! $800: In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country Liberia
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: African-American History Month is celebrated in this month February
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Freed slave Richard Allen was the founder & first bishop of the church known by these 3 initials for short AME
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This composer learned the basics of music as a boy in 19th century Texarkana (Scott) Joplin
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city Washington, D.C.
#7003, aired 2015-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state, but too late to be Jeff Davis' colleague Mississippi
#6988, aired 2015-01-21GONE WITH THE WIND $800: For her role as Mammy, this actress became the first African American to win an Oscar Hattie McDaniel
#6983, aired 2015-01-14JOBS IN ART $2000: This 20th century African-American master depicted "The Carpenters" here Jacob Lawrence
#6962, aired 2014-12-16ERNIE $800: In 1961 Ernie Davis of Syracuse won this trophy; no African American had before, not even Ernie's idol Jim Brown the Heisman
#6954, aired 2014-12-04PLACES, EVERYBODY $1000: Neighborhood: 125th Street is the heart of this traditionally African-American part of Manhattan Harlem
#6930, aired 2014-10-31MEET YOUR ANCESTORS $800: Most residents in the purple counties identified as this two-word term, the most common ancestry in the Deep South African-American
#6925, aired 2014-10-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: Messman Dorie Miller was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross for bravery at this place, December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor
#6925, aired 2014-10-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: In 2000 Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire after selling this TV network to Viacom B.E.T.
#6925, aired 2014-10-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1950 Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony, for playing Bloody Mary in this musical South Pacific
#6925, aired 2014-10-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: Mary Patterson, the first black woman to earn a B.A. degree, graduated in 1862 from this state's Oberlin College Ohio
#6925, aired 2014-10-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: Rita Dove was the first African American to serve in this government post, from 1993 to 1995 poet laureate
#6923, aired 2014-10-22EXPLORERS $1600: While living in Greenland in the 1890s, this African American adopted an Inuit child named Kudlooktoo Matthew Henson
#6910, aired 2014-10-03MASSACHUSETTS $800: The first African-American governor of Massachusetts, he took office in 2007 Deval Patrick
#6860, aired 2014-06-13HISTORIC TV $1000: "I Spy" made the TV history books in 1965 when it cast this African American in one of the lead roles Bill Cosby
#6845, aired 2014-05-23AUTH"ER"S $400: She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Alice Walker
#6840, aired 2014-05-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: "The lure of the Arctic is tugging at my heart", says the headstone of this African-American explorer (Matthew) Henson
#6840, aired 2014-05-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Migrate north to this city to visit the largest museum of African-American history; it's named for Charles H. Wright Detroit
#6840, aired 2014-05-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The second African-American patent holder, Henry Blair got 2: for devices to plant corn & to plant this crop cotton
#6840, aired 2014-05-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1993 Joycelyn Elders became the first African American to hold this government post Surgeon General
#6840, aired 2014-05-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Penned by James Weldon Johnson, the song do this "And Sing" became an African-American "National Anthem" "Lift Every Voice"
#6839, aired 2014-05-15MISHMASH $1600: For negotiating an Arab-Israeli truce, this U.N. diplomat became the first African-American to win a Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche
#6831, aired 2014-05-05LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $5,000 (Daily Double): With a mark of 5'6" in this event, in 1948 5'7" Alice Coachman became the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold high jump
#6828, aired 2014-04-30LET'S AGREE ON A PRICE $2000: African-American soprano Mary Price is better known by this name Leontyne Price
#6783, aired 2014-02-26POLITICAL CONVENTION KEYNOTERS $1600: Democrats,1992: This African-American former Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan
#6781, aired 2014-02-24THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr.
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934 the Apollo
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these "Boys", was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction the Scottsboro Boys
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American Phillis Wheatley
#6735, aired 2013-12-20LITERATURE $800: Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son" James Baldwin
#6715, aired 2013-11-22AP FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR $800: 2012: This African-American gymnast Gabby Douglas
#6662, aired 2013-07-30U.S. STAMPS $600: The family on the stamp pictured here is celebrating this African-American holiday Kwanzaa
#6651, aired 2013-07-151983--30 YEARS AGO $1000: Chicago elected this man its first African-American mayor Harold Washington
#6624, aired 2013-06-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright Chicago
#6624, aired 2013-06-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Set 15 years later, Terry McMillan's "Getting to Happy" checks back in on the ladies we last met "Waiting to" do this exhale
#6624, aired 2013-06-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" Alice Walker
#6624, aired 2013-06-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: (Professor Henry Louis Gates delivers the clue.) This prolific social critic & author of "Race Matters" was my co-author on the 1996 book "The Future of the Race" Cornel West
#6624, aired 2013-06-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Kristin Hunter took the title for her novel "God Bless the Child" from this singer Billie Holiday
#6622, aired 2013-06-04FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $2000: In 1987 this African-American playwright swung for the "Fences" & won a Pulitzer August Wilson
#6609, aired 2013-05-16NONFICTION $400: Alex Haley wrote much of "The Autobiography of" this 1960s African-American leader Malcolm X
#6586, aired 2013-04-15JACKIE ROBINSON $1600: 5 years after his 1957 retirement, Jackie became the first African-American inductee into this the Hall of Fame
#6581, aired 2013-04-08MISNAMED ANIMALS $800: This South American rodent is not from the African place in its name, nor will you hear it go "oink" a Guinea pig
#6570, aired 2013-03-22WE'RE ON MARS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Valerie Ambroise won an essay contest & named this rover for a 19th-century African-American woman Sojourner
#6553, aired 2013-02-27THE BRONZE AGE $1000: The first African American to win a winter Olympic medal was Debi Thomas with a 1988 bronze in this sport figure skating
#6546, aired 2013-02-181960s BLACK AMERICA $1600: This new cabinet department was headed by the first African-American cabinet member, Robert Weaver Housing & Urban Development
#6546, aired 2013-02-181960s BLACK AMERICA $2000: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra Leontyne Price
#6540, aired 2013-02-08AFRICAN AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident the Boston Massacre
#6512, aired 2013-01-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: When asked to describe herself, she says first & foremost, she is Malia & Sasha's mom Michelle Obama
#6512, aired 2013-01-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Bessie Coleman, the first black woman licensed as a pilot, landed a street named in her honor at this Chicago airport O'Hare
#6512, aired 2013-01-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Rita Dove titled a collection of poems "On the Bus with" this woman Rosa Parks
#6512, aired 2013-01-01AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, "My mother was" this film "& so was her mother" The Help
#6502, aired 2012-12-18THE P-51 MUSTANG $1600: Often flying P-51 Mustangs, this distinguished African-American unit flew more than 1,500 missions during WWII the Tuskegee Airmen
#6451, aired 2012-10-08CINEMANIA $1000: This genre created in the '70s featured African-American actors in stereotypical & often violent characterizations blaxploitation
#6450, aired 2012-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $400 (Daily Double): (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Dr. Charles Drew saved the lives of soldiers & civilians in WWII when he improved blood banks by finding a long-term storage method for this blood liquid plasma
#6450, aired 2012-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $400: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) The son of slaves who taught himself to be a draftsman, Lewis Latimer drew the blueprints for this man's telephone patent, which won a patent race (Alexander Graham) Bell
#6450, aired 2012-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train electromagnetic
#6441, aired 2012-09-24THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin's father Robert & the first woman was this great contralto of the day Marian Anderson
#6417, aired 2012-07-10FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: Living in rags paid off--in 1976 he was honored with a special Pulitzer citation for his contribution to American music Scott Joplin
#6409, aired 2012-06-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $400: Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer won high praise for their roles as maids in this 2011 flick The Help
#6409, aired 2012-06-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $800: For her role in "Monster's Ball", this beauty became the first African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar (Halle) Berry
#6409, aired 2012-06-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1200: In 2008 this Tina Turner portrayer checked into the "ER" as Dr. Cate Banfield Angela Bassett
#6409, aired 2012-06-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1600: In 1974 she won 2 Emmys for her starring role in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" Cicely Tyson
#6409, aired 2012-06-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Loretta Devine, one of the original "Dreamgirls" on Broadway, plays Dr. Webber's wife Adele on this medical drama Grey's Anatomy
#6374, aired 2012-05-10MAY I HAVE SECONDS? $1000: The second African-American Supreme Court Justice, he once considered becoming a priest Clarence Thomas
#6372, aired 2012-05-08WASHINGTON YESTERDAY $1600: Sidney Poitier was the first African American to win the Oscar for Best Actor; he was the second Denzel Washington
#6372, aired 2012-05-08WASHINGTON YESTERDAY $2000: In 1983 Harold Washington became the first African-American mayor of this midwestern city Chicago
#6365, aired 2012-04-27AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: A memorial sculpture in Annapolis honors this author & his African ancestor Kunta Kinte Alex Haley
#6358, aired 2012-04-18NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: Sophia Packard & Harriet Giles co-founded what became this Atlanta college for African-American women Spelman College
#6347, aired 2012-04-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $400: This Oscar winner played cab driver Max (not Maxx) in "Collateral" Jamie Foxx
#6347, aired 2012-04-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $800: "The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950 (Sidney) Poitier
#6347, aired 2012-04-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $1200: Dennis Haysbert's credits include "The Unit", "Far From Heaven" & ubiquitous ads for this insurance company Allstate
#6347, aired 2012-04-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $1600: Woody Strode, seen here in this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams Spartacus
#6347, aired 2012-04-03AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $2000: He's gone from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Hotel Rwanda" Don Cheadle
#6346, aired 2012-04-02E FOLLOWS F $200: Kola nuts from a West African tree have been a source of this stimulant used in American soft drinks caffeine
#6336, aired 2012-03-19POTPOURRI $2000: In 1993 the Library of Congress made Rita Dove the first African American to hold this position a poet laureate
#6333, aired 2012-03-14THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $800: African-American troops known as this animal type of "soldiers" played an important role in combat in Cuba Buffalo Soldiers
#6329, aired 2012-03-08SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) If a giraffe didn't have adaptations like thick-walled arteries & extra valves to counteract gravity, lowering its head to drink would cause an aneurysm, & then raising its head would cause it to faint, because this vital measure is naturally so high its blood pressure
#6314, aired 2012-02-16U.S. COINS $1,200 (Daily Double): A 1946 memorial half-dollar was the first U.S. coin to feature an African American, this educator Booker T. Washington
#6309, aired 2012-02-09GO OUT OR STAY IN? $600: Stay in with a DVD of this 2011 film whose title is an African-American wedding tradition Jumping the Broom
#6304, aired 2012-02-02TALES OF THE WINDY CITY $800: This Richard Wright work about a racially charged murder trial was the first best-selling novel by an African American Native Son
#6289, aired 2012-01-12MEDAL OF FREEDOM ATHLETES $600: Only African American to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon Arthur Ashe
#6257, aired 2011-11-29MUST "C" TV $2000: "Family Guy" Peter Griffin's African-American neighbor moved to Stoolbend, Virginia for this cartoon spin-off The Cleveland Show
#6253, aired 2011-11-23OBSESSIONS $800: This African-American composer was so obsessed with his opera "Treemonisha" that he suffered a breakdown in 1911 (Scott) Joplin
#6233, aired 2011-10-26DREAMBOATS $800: He was in all his "Glory" in 1996 when he was named People's Sexiest Man Alive, the first & only African American honored Denzel Washington
#6231, aired 2011-10-24A "TON" OF PEOPLE $1000: His "Boyz N the Hood" earned him the first-ever best director Oscar nomination for an African American John Singleton
#6222, aired 2011-10-11COLLEGE SPORTS $2000: In 1965 this African American with an alliterative name won the singles & doubles college tennis titles Arthur Ashe
#6202, aired 2011-07-26R.B.s $800: The first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, this man was appointed to the U.N. Palestine Commission in 1947 Ralph Bunche
#6202, aired 2011-07-26LETTERMAN $2000: In 1895 he became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard W.E.B. DuBois
#6196, aired 2011-07-18CALL ME SHIRLEY $1200: In 1969 she became the first African-American congresswoman (Shirley) Chisholm
#6178, aired 2011-06-22LYNDON JOHNSON $400: During his tenure LBJ appointed this first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
#6151, aired 2011-05-16THAT'S "EASY" $2000: Ezekiel is the real first name of this African-American private detective created by author Walter Mosley Easy Rawlins
#6097, aired 2011-03-01AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 Poetry
#6084, aired 2011-02-10AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: An award for African-American authors & illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King
#6054, aired 2010-12-30BALLPARK FRANKS $400: The first to be MVP in both leagues, he was the first African-American major league manager, with Cleveland in 1975 Frank Robinson
#6050, aired 2010-12-24CHRISTIANITY $1000: Born the son of slaves in 1760, Richard Allen became the first bishop & leader of this church, the AME, in 1816 African Methodist Episcopal church
#6048, aired 2010-12-22ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $400: In Los Angeles in 1966, this African-American holiday was celebrated for the first time Kwanzaa
#6014, aired 2010-11-04OPRAH'S GUESTS $600: (Oprah Winfrey reads the clue.) When I interviewed this actor, I got to tell him what it meant to me as a young girl to see an African American walk into the Academy Awards & take home the Best Actor prize (Sidney) Poitier
#5956, aired 2010-07-05HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: During each of the 7 days of this African-American celebration, a candle is lit to represent its 7 principles Kwanzaa
#5953, aired 2010-06-30THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP $2000: This African American's first fight after winning the title was a 1909 bout against future actor Victor McLaglen Jack Johnson
#5940, aired 2010-06-11FACTS & FIGURES $600: Fact: As Halle Berry could tell you, this woman was the first African-American Best Actress Oscar nominee Dorothy Dandridge
#5931, aired 2010-05-31HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $1000: The 2008 film "The Express" told the story of this 1961 Heisman trophy winner, the first African American to win the award (Ernie) Davis
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the acclaimed "Roots", a 7-generation family chronicle (Alex) Haley
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He created the reluctant private eye Ezekiel Rawlins, nicknamed "Easy" Walter Mosley
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1953 novel by James Baldwin is based on his own experiences as a teenaged preacher Go Tell It on the Mountain
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois
#5923, aired 2010-05-19THE FORTUNE 500 $1000: The first female African-American Fortune 500 CEO is Ursula Burns of this document technology giant Xerox
#5904, aired 2010-04-22BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Happy Days" spin-off that was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. congress Laverne & Shirley Chisholm
#5900, aired 2010-04-16THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: Supporting actress winner Mo'nique wore a gardenia in her hair in honor of this pioneering African-American actress Hattie McDaniel
#5897, aired 2010-04-13SPORTS LEGENDS $2000: The first African American in the Tennis Hall of Fame, she was also the first to play on the LPGA tour, in 1963 (Althea) Gibson
#5880, aired 2010-03-19JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES $1000: Drink up if you say (incorrectly) this African-American author wrote "The Invisible Man"; he penned "Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison
#5872, aired 2010-03-09GOVERNORS $600: He's the first African-American governor of New York, as well as the first to be legally blind (David) Paterson
#5870, aired 2010-03-05THE DIEDS OF MARCH $800: Crispus Attucks, an African American, was one of 5 men killed in this Beantown event March 5, 1770 the Boston Massacre
#5860, aired 2010-02-19ROOTS $1600: (I'm Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) As part of PBS' "African American Live" series, I hosted a 2007 special that explored the roots of this TV personality & located her ancestors among Liberia's Kpelle people Oprah Winfrey
#5859, aired 2010-02-18HYPHENATES $1200: This Chicagoan was the first African-American woman elected to the Senate Carol Moseley-Braun
#5852, aired 2010-02-09AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: The first African American to play modern Major League Baseball, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 Jackie Robinson
#5809, aired 2009-12-10HAMMER TIME $200: This African-American folklore laborer: "Before I let that steam drill beat me down I'll die with my hammer in my hand" John Henry
#5804, aired 2009-12-03WOODSTOCK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) Woodstock opened with a performance by this African-American folk artist who was called back for so many encores, he ran out of material & had to improvise his now classic "Freedom" Richie Havens
#5769, aired 2009-10-15AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Edward Brooke was the first African American to hold this post for a state; Eric Holder is the first federal one Attorney General
#5765, aired 2009-10-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $400: In 1963 Wendell Scott became the first African American to win a stock car race in this association NASCAR
#5765, aired 2009-10-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The aptly named Willie Thrower, the NFL's first black quarterback, played one game in 1953 for this team at Wrigley Field the Chicago Bears
#5752, aired 2009-09-22THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $400: Ralph Ellison was the first African American to win the fiction award; "Purple" prose made this woman the second Alice Walker
#5723, aired 2009-06-24FOLSOM PRISON BLUES $2000: This African-American radical turned preacher wrote "Soul on Ice" while imprisoned at Folsom Eldridge Cleaver
#5722, aired 2009-06-23NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1200: This African-American choreographer's dance foundation won in 2001 Alvin Ailey
#5706, aired 2009-06-01OBAMA'S CABINET $2,000 (Daily Double): Once Deputy Attorney General, in 2009 he became the first African-American Attorney General Eric Holder
#5700, aired 2009-05-22THE SUPER BOWL $2000: In 1988 he became the first African-American quarterback to start & win a Super Bowl Doug Williams
#5694, aired 2009-05-14AMERICAN HISTORY $800: African Americans, 13% of the U.S., were nearly twice that percentage of U.S. troops in this 1990-91 war the First Gulf War
#5691, aired 2009-05-11AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: Currently, he's the only African American on the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas
#5667, aired 2009-04-07LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: Lorraine Hansberry's African-American family now visits Jake Barnes in Spain for some bullfighting Raisin in the Sun Also Rises
#5654, aired 2009-03-19COMEDY TONIGHT $1600: This 1970s African-American comic: "Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers" (Richard) Pryor
#5653, aired 2009-03-18EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $400: The Inuit in Greenland called this African-American explorer Maripaluk, or "Kind Matthew" (Matthew) Henson
#5643, aired 2009-03-04MR. OBAMA GOES TO WASHINGTON $1600: Obama was only the third African American to be elected to the Senate since the 1865-1877 period known as this Reconstruction
#5642, aired 2009-03-03JOHN J. PERSHING $600: Pershing gained this rhyming nickname for commanding a unit of African-American soldiers Black Jack
#5641, aired 2009-03-02ADAM $800: In 1945 this African American was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Harlem Adam Clayton Powell
#5640, aired 2009-02-27WE'RE ALL "WAITING" $1000: Terry McMillan's bestselling 1992 novel about 4 African-American friends Waiting to Exhale
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $200: (Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives the clue.) In a recent essay, I cited the election of Barack Obama as one of the 4 "transformative moments" in African-American history; this 1863 event was the first the Emancipation Proclamation
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In the "African American National Biography" series, which I co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the second entry is a profile of this baseball great Hank Aaron
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $600: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) My ancestor, Revolutionary War soldier John Redman, was one of an estimated 5,000 black soldiers in this army, the first regular U.S. fighting force the Continental Army
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1000: (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In 2003, I published "The Trials of" this woman, a book about America's first black poet & her encounters with the Founding Fathers Phillis Wheatley
#5638, aired 2009-02-25THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1,600 (Daily Double): (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) I direct a research institute at Harvard University named for this author of "The Souls of Black Folk", black America's leading public intellectual through most of his long life, 1868-1963 W.E.B. Du Bois
#5632, aired 2009-02-17IT HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA $2000: In 1990 he took office as the USA's first elected African-American governor; in 2005 he became mayor of Richmond (Douglas) Wilder
#5631, aired 2009-02-161909: 100 YEARS AGO $200: On February 12 this important African-American organization was formed NAACP
#5566, aired 2008-11-17NOTABLE NAMES $800: Postage stamp glue is one of the more than 100 products this African American developed from sweet potatoes (George Washington) Carver
#5565, aired 2008-11-14POSE-POURRI $800: Now a TV host, she was the first African-American model on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue Tyra Banks
#5474, aired 2008-05-29LITERARY LOCALES $800: African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan Harlem
#5471, aired 2008-05-26WRITERS $2,200 (Daily Double): Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this fellow African-American author wrote "Notes of a Native Son" James Baldwin
#5466, aired 2008-05-19INTERNATIONAL PARKS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History depicts Virunga National Park in this African Democratic Republic the Congo
#5450, aired 2008-04-25U.S. COUNTIES $600: This Illinois county has the largest African American population of any U.S. county, with about 1.5 million Cook County
#5440, aired 2008-04-11HARRIET $400: In 1978 she became the first African-American woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp Harriet Tubman
#5433, aired 2008-04-02"B" & "O" $200: He's the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate Barack Obama
#5410, aired 2008-02-29HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $1600: In 1938 Hedy made her American film debut with Charles Boyer in this film bearing the name of an African capital Algiers
#5394, aired 2008-02-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In the 1950s, Chester Himes moved to Paris, where he wrote murder mysteries like "Cotton Comes to" here Harlem
#5394, aired 2008-02-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Audiotaped interviews of this black Muslim leader became Alex Haley's 1965 "Autobiography" of him Malcolm X
#5394, aired 2008-02-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In 1977 her "Song of Solomon" became the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection by a black author in 37 years Toni Morrison
#5394, aired 2008-02-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1975 an Oklahoma City library was named for this "Invisible Man" author who was born in the city in 1914 Ralph Ellison
#5394, aired 2008-02-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Her fourth novel, "The Temple of My Familiar", featured several characters from "The Color Purple" Alice Walker
#5393, aired 2008-02-06HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: American trypanosomiasis is also called Chagas' disease; the African version is known as this "sickness" sleeping sickness
#5375, aired 2008-01-11STATE THE GOVERNOR $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2006 Deval Patrick was elected this state's first African-American governor Massachusetts
#5325, aired 2007-11-02GOVERNORS $1600: As New Jersey governor, this woman seen here appointed the state's first African-American Supreme Court Justice Christie Todd Whitman
#5320, aired 2007-10-26THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience August Wilson
#5310, aired 2007-10-12GOOD SPORTS $400: The dad of this 2006 British Open winner was the 1st African-American baseball player in the then-Big 7 conference Tiger Woods
#5305, aired 2007-10-05A BIT ABOUT BALTIMORE $800: Outside the Federal Building is a statue of this native son, the first African American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall
#5296, aired 2007-09-2420th CENTURY USA $400: By a 52-48 vote, he became the second African American to sit on the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas
#5296, aired 2007-09-24SOPRANOS $2000: This African-American soprano sang on Broadway & TV before her opera stage debut in 1957 Leontyne Price
#5288, aired 2007-09-12AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Center was renamed for this "Piano Lesson" author who was born in Pittsburgh August Wilson
#5284, aired 2007-07-26POLITICIANS $600: This senator was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review Barack Obama
#5277, aired 2007-07-17CLASSIC LIT $800: Completes the title of a classic about an African-American family "Roll of Thunder..." Hear My Cry
#5273, aired 2007-07-11AUSTIN $800: Austin's African-American history is chronicled in a museum named for this agricultural scientist George Washington Carver
#5264, aired 2007-06-28LADIES IN SPACE $800: In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman astronaut, on this shuttle whose name means "to try" Endeavour
#5262, aired 2007-06-26PHILOSOPHIC BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Current African-American Supreme Court Justice who enlightened his fellow Brits with a "Leviathan" of a book in 1651 Clarence Thomas Hobbes
#5251, aired 2007-06-11SAN ANTONIO $1600: In the 19th C. San Antonio was a training site for the African-American Cavalry Soldiers given this animal name the Buffalo Soldiers
#5248, aired 2007-06-06FOR RICHARD $1200: A "Native Son" of Mississippi, this African-American author died in 1960 & is buried in Paris Richard Wright
#5235, aired 2007-05-18BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $2000: In 1988 this African-American explorer's remains were moved to Arlington & reburied near Robert Peary Matthew Henson
#5233, aired 2007-05-162006 NEWS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) The Democrats gained 6 of these, including a win in Massachusetts by Deval Patrick, the second African-American ever elected to one the gubernatorial seat
#5220, aired 2007-04-27ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? $400: In 2007 this Colts leader became the first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl Tony Dungy
#5217, aired 2007-04-24WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $2000: Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet Patricia Harris
#5198, aired 2007-03-28ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $200: He became the first African American to win Best Song when his "Theme From Shaft" won the 1971 Oscar Isaac Hayes
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This poet & author called the first volume of her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His autobiography "Black Boy" was originally the first section of a longer work called "American Hunger" Richard Wright
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver
#5167, aired 2007-02-13ELECTION 2006 $600 (Daily Double): African-American Keith Ellison of Minnesota is the 1st congressman of this faith, to which he converted at 19 Islam
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $400: The first jazz record was made by a lame-o white band from this city where black musicians had created jazz New Orleans
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $800: This great Alabama educator also founded the National Negro Business League in 1900 (Booker T.) Washington
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith, the first black student at the university of this state in Oxford; in 1964, he graduated Mississippi
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $1600: As slavery wasn't yet legal in Virginia, the 20 black arrivals at Jamestown in 1619 were considered these indentured servants
#5165, aired 2007-02-09THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.) At a recreation of a famous march, Bill Clinton said that the Voting Rights Act was signed in ink in Washington, but signed in blood in this Alabama city Selma
#5157, aired 2007-01-30YOU GET A "D" $1000: (I'm Soledad O'Brien of CNN.) As an African-Cuban-Irish-Australian-American, I've spoken about the importance in our newsrooms & in our society of this, from the Latin for "contrariety" diversity
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AFRICAN-AMERICANA $200: In 1964 Martin Luther King became the first African American named this magazine's "Man of the Year" Time
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: Frederick Douglass said this political party was the ship & everything else was the ocean the Republican Party
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AFRICAN-AMERICANA $600: This military man won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for 1991 Colin Powell
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: This southern city's convention center is named for Ernest Morial, the city's first African-American mayor New Orleans
#5146, aired 2007-01-15AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1000: Mari Evans adapted this Zora Neale Hurston work as a musical titled "Eyes" Their Eyes Were Watching God
#5129, aired 2006-12-21KA-"POW"! $200: He was the first African-American Secretary of State Colin Powell
#5118, aired 2006-12-06MILITARY MEN $800: Presley O'Bannon's Marine detachment raised the American flag on the "shores" of this North African state in 1805 Tripoli
#5082, aired 2006-10-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The "Renaissance" Countee Cullen helped lead, or the area where he married W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter in 1928 the Harlem Renaissance
#5082, aired 2006-10-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: The author of the 1st entirely self-written slave narrative was named Gustavus Vassa, for a king of this country Sweden
#5082, aired 2006-10-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: At age 12 this "Beloved" author became a Catholic & chose her baptismal name to honor St. Anthony (Toni) Morrison
#5082, aired 2006-10-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): Completes Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1899 lines "A plea, that upward to heaven he flings / I know why..." the caged bird sings
#5082, aired 2006-10-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1948, fed up with the U.S., James Baldwin moved to this city for good Paris
#5060, aired 2006-09-1550 CENT $2000: He was the first African American on a U.S. coin; the reverse of his half dollar read, "from slave cabin to hall of fame" Booker T. Washington
#5058, aired 2006-09-13IT'S A MAN, BABY! $1000: At 6'7", this one-named African-American dragster was hard to miss in the video for "Love Shack" RuPaul
#5040, aired 2006-07-07DOCTOR WHOM? $800: Seen here, he was the first African American awarded a doctorate by Harvard W.E.B. Du Bois
#5036, aired 2006-07-03THE U.S. CENSUS $400: This city has the largest Hispanic, Asian & African-American populations in the U.S. New York
#4987, aired 2006-04-25DANCE IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Our team won 55-0--you could call it this 19th century African-American dance a cakewalk
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Perhaps he was just being modest when he said that his "Invisible Man" was "not an important novel" (Ralph) Ellison
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner
#4972, aired 2006-04-04THE AFRICAN EXPLORER $400: Before beginning his famous search, this Welsh-born journalist covered the Indian campaigns in the American West Stanley
#4947, aired 2006-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS $200: In grade school he was nicknamed "Prince", as in Prince Charming; later he added "Fresh" to that moniker Will Smith
#4947, aired 2006-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS $400: She's been bringing down the house in films like "Bringing Down the House" & "Chicago" Queen Latifah
#4947, aired 2006-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS $600: This singer who died in 2006 began his Parade of Stars telethon in 1980; it has raised over $200 million for the UNCF Lou Rawls
#4947, aired 2006-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS $800: In 1968 she received a special Tony Award for her starring role in "Hello, Dolly!" Pearl Bailey
#4947, aired 2006-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads beside the pipe organ in the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) Singers who have given recitals in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church include this African-American contralto, a famous victim of prejudice Marian Anderson
#4920, aired 2006-01-20FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison
#4907, aired 2006-01-03AN ATTEMPT AT ALLITERATION $2000: Delightful dancer, African-American, radiant "Revelations", Manhattan man Alvin Ailey
#4902, aired 2005-12-27FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: He's Huck Finn's African-American raftmate Jim
#4886, aired 2005-12-05AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $1200: This African-American author's works include the 500,000-year-spanning "Temple of My Familiar" Alice Walker
#4884, aired 2005-12-01FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Ralph Bunche
#4858, aired 2005-10-26TENNIS, ANYONE? $400: In 1999 she won the U.S. Open, becoming the first African-American woman since 1958 to win a Grand Slam singles title Serena Williams
#4857, aired 2005-10-25AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950 Poetry
#4847, aired 2005-10-11WARNER BROS. ANIMATION $800: Gaining his powers from exposure to mutagenetic gas, he's the African-American teen superhero seen here Static Shock
#4840, aired 2005-09-30DOT $1600: "Introducing" this African-American actress who appeared briefly with her sister in the Marx Bros.' "A Day at the Races" Dorothy Dandridge
#4833, aired 2005-09-21"K" RATIONS $400: In 1891 African-American jockey Isaac Murphy became the first man to win this horse race 3 times the Kentucky Derby
#4818, aired 2005-07-13IF I'M ELECTED... $800: In January of 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American elected to this body the Senate
#4816, aired 2005-07-11DODGER $400: In 1962 this ex-Dodger became the first African American elected to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame Jackie Robinson
#4808, aired 2005-06-29MOTTOES $600: "All power to the people" was the motto of this African-American political organization of the 1960s the Black Panthers
#4769, aired 2005-05-05RUSSELLMANIA $200: In 1966 this All-Star player became the first African-American head coach in the NBA Bill Russell
#4766, aired 2005-05-02STATE FIRSTS $1000: In 1989 this state elected the first African-American governor, L. Douglas Wilder Virginia
#4717, aired 2005-02-22AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Her marriage to Mel Leventhal produced Rebecca Walker, who produced the memoir "Black, White and Jewish" Alice Walker
#4717, aired 2005-02-22AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923) is one of the major works of this New York City movement the Harlem Renaissance
#4717, aired 2005-02-22"A" MEN $1000: "Revelations", based on African-American religious music, is this choreographer's masterpiece (Alvin) Ailey
#4717, aired 2005-02-22AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1200: Soon after this jazzman died, poet Michael Harper published a "Dear John" book about him John Coltrane
#4717, aired 2005-02-22AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1600: Donald Goines wrote 4 novels about an urban revolutionary named for this father of modern Kenya Jomo Kenyatta
#4717, aired 2005-02-22AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $2000: Last name of poet Nikki, or first name of the man whose "room" is a James Baldwin book title Giovanni
#4714, aired 2005-02-17BONDS... OTHER BONDS $1600: In 1968, he became the first African-American man to be placed in nomination for the VP candidacy of a major party Julian Bond
#4690, aired 2005-01-14FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: He was the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell
#4647, aired 2004-11-16GENERAL ED. $1200: Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, represented this state, 1993-1999 Illinois
#4641, aired 2004-11-08IF YOU GROW IT, THEY WILL EAT $600: Though American in origin, the Cape Gooseberry got its name by being cultivated on this South African Cape the Cape of Good Hope
#4629, aired 2004-10-21KIDS IN THE 1960s $1600: ...learned in 1966 of the creation of this African-American cultural festival that's celebrated from Dec. 26-Jan. 1 Kwanzaa
#4614, aired 2004-09-30AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: This capital was founded by North American settlers in 1822 Monrovia
#4611, aired 2004-09-27PICTURESQUE $1600: This photographer, whose work is seen here, was the first African-American to direct a film for a major studio Gordon Parks
#4605, aired 2004-09-17WE LOVE BROADWAY $2,000 (Daily Double): Alfre Woodard winged onto B'way in "Drowning Crow", an African-American version of this Chekhov classic The Seagull
#4604, aired 2004-09-16SPEAKING IN TONGUES $800: A 1996 Oakland School Board decision made many aware of this term for African-American English Ebonics
#4592, aired 2004-07-20PEOPLE $200: In 1964 he became the first African American to be named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" Dr. (Martin Luther) King (Jr.)
#4578, aired 2004-06-30"P"EOPLE $2000: In 1961 this African-American soprano made her debut at the Met as Leonora in "Il trovatore" (Leontyne) Price
#4570, aired 2004-06-18SOFT "C" $1200: In 1950 Chuck Cooper became the first African American drafted by an NBA team, this one the Celtics
#4565, aired 2004-06-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city L.A. (Los Angeles)
#4565, aired 2004-06-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $800: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964 an OBIE
#4565, aired 2004-06-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans A Raisin in the Sun
#4565, aired 2004-06-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state Mississippi
#4565, aired 2004-06-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company August Wilson
#4563, aired 2004-06-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change Coretta Scott King
#4563, aired 2004-06-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman Oprah
#4563, aired 2004-06-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: While Shirley Chisholm represented N.Y. in Congress, Barbara Jordan represented this state Texas
#4563, aired 2004-06-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, she served 6 years as provost of Stanford Univ. Condoleezza Rice
#4563, aired 2004-06-09AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,400 (Daily Double): Arturo Toscanini once praised this contralto, saying she had a voice that comes "once in a hundred years" Marian Anderson
#4549, aired 2004-05-20PEOPLE $400: In 1974 People magazine's first African-American cover subject was this actress who played Miss Jane Pittman Cicely Tyson
#4511, aired 2004-03-29THE FIFTH DIMENSION $1000: This African-American was elected to his fifth term as Los Angeles mayor in 1989 Tom Bradley
#4493, aired 2004-03-03THE TRUTH $1600: Flip Wilson endowed a scholarship for African-American journalism majors at this New Jersey state university Rutgers
#4486, aired 2004-02-23FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1600: (Hi, I'm CCH Pounder from The Shield.) I starred in a TV movie of "Go Tell It on the Mountain", based on a novel by this African-American author James Baldwin
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: In December 1993 Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman awarded this international literature prize the Nobel Prize
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: In October 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American one of these Supreme Court justices
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $600: W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from this prestigious Massachusetts university Harvard
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: In 1977 Andrew Young became the first African-American to serve as U.S. ambassador to this body the U.N. (United Nations)
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1000: In 1978 this escaped slave became the first African-American woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp Harriet Tubman
#4474, aired 2004-02-05SPORTS STARS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island) His "Days of Grace" include July 5, 1975 when he became the first African-American male to win the Wimbledon singles title Arthur Ashe
#4434, aired 2003-12-11THE HAROLD TRIBUNE $1200: Chicago's first African-American mayor Harold Washington
#4416, aired 2003-11-17ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: It's the African-American harvest festival that begins on December 26 Kwanzaa
#4413, aired 2003-11-12WEEDER'S DIGEST $400: This great African-American botanist quipped that "A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place" George Washington Carver
#4413, aired 2003-11-12THEY ATTENDED YALE $600: Among the many prominent Yale Law School graduates is this African-American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
#4412, aired 2003-11-11THE MATRIX $600: In the first film this character turns out to be a friendly cookie-baking African-American lady the Oracle
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: In the history of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong were 2 of the greatest players of this instrument the trumpet
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AFRICAN-AMERICANA $800: Once called "The Capstone of Negro Education", this Washington, D.C. university opened its doors in 1867 Howard University
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1200: While an editor for Random House books, she wrote her first novel, "The Bluest Eye" Toni Morrison
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AFRICAN-AMERICANA $1600: Currently, they're the 2 highest-ranking African-Americans in President Bush's administration Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell
#4411, aired 2003-11-10AFRICAN-AMERICANA $2000: In 2003 the Postal Service did him justice by honoring him with the stamp seen here Thurgood Marshall
#4404, aired 2003-10-30CONGRESSIONAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): When this group, the CBC, was founded in 1971, it aimed for 10% of the House to be African-American -- not there yet the Congressional Black Caucus
#4378, aired 2003-09-24AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In September 1992 Mae Jemison blasted off aboard this as the first African-American woman in space the space shuttle
#4372, aired 2003-09-16DENZEL WASHINGTON $1200: In a 1992 Spike Lee film, Denzel Washington played this slain African-American leader Malcolm X
#4370, aired 2003-09-12THEY'RE NOT BOOING, THEY'RE SAYING... $2000: ...the name of this African-American surgeon & pioneer in blood preservation (Charles) Drew
#4357, aired 2003-07-08BROADWAY DEBUTS $1000: This African-American poet earned a 1973 Tony nomination for her Broadway acting debut in "Look Away" Maya Angelou
#4348, aired 2003-06-25A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY $1000: "Jumping" this object that signifies a wife's duties in the home is an African-American wedding tradition broom (or broomstick)
#4344, aired 2003-06-19SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall
#4344, aired 2003-06-19SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This 1939 winner's debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist Marian Anderson
#4335, aired 2003-06-06PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright August Wilson
#4316, aired 2003-05-12KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $2000: The first group of honorees in 1978 included Arthur Rubinstein & this African-American opera singer Marian Anderson
#4315, aired 2003-05-09MAGAZINES $1000: It's Johnson Publishing Co.'s pocket-size weekly with an African-American perspective Jet
#4293, aired 2003-04-09DECODE THE PERSONAL AD $400: She's an S.A.F., the A. for this ethnic origin Asian
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $400: Hits by this "Godfather of Soul" include 1969's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" James Brown
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $800: In 1955 this "royal" singer had 7 Top 40 hits, including "If I May" & "Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" Nat King Cole
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $1200: As a boy, this master of bebop sax moved to Kansas City, Mo. (a jazz hotbed) from Kansas City, Kansas (not) (Charlie) Parker
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $1600: (Hi, I'm Buddy Guy.) I'm gonna play a blues number by this Delta blues legend Robert Johnson
#4291, aired 2003-04-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $2000: This black soprano born in Augusta, Georgia made "conquests" in roles like Jocasta & Aida Jessye Norman
#4282, aired 2003-03-25YOU GIVE ME THE WILLIES $600: In 1996 he was sworn in as San Francisco's first African-American mayor Willie Brown
#4280, aired 2003-03-21 75 YEARS OF THE OSCARS $800: The second African-American actress to win an Oscar, she hosted the ceremony the night Halle Berry won Whoopi Goldberg
#4259, aired 2003-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: In 2002 she made movie history as the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actress Halle Berry
#4259, aired 2003-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800 (Daily Double): Rita Dove was the first African-American writer to serve in this post from 1993 to 1995 Poet Laureate of the United States
#4259, aired 2003-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: We now salute Henry O. Flipper, seen here, the first African-American graduate of this academy West Point (U.S. Military Academy)
#4259, aired 2003-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1874 Patrick Francis Healy, a Jesuit theologian, became the first black president of this D.C. university Georgetown
#4259, aired 2003-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: This man, seen here, went on the air as CNN's first African-American news anchor Bernard Shaw
#4256, aired 2003-02-17"U" GOTTA BELIEVE ME! $1000: From 1987 to 1994 he played young African-American lawyer Jonathan Rollins on "L.A. Law" Blair Underwood
#4247, aired 2003-02-04NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios Oprah Winfrey
#4229, aired 2003-01-09NOTABLE NAMES $2000: A former slave, this man seen here was the most prominent African-American spokesman of the 1800s Frederick Douglass
#4226, aired 2003-01-06SHE'S IN CHARGE $400: Chairman of her own company, this African-American woman & talk show host has a TV show seen in 107 countries Oprah Winfrey
#4194, aired 2002-11-21PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MEN ALIVE $2000: This African-American actor must have been in all his "Glory" when he was chosen in 1996 Denzel Washington
#4138, aired 2002-09-04NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 1946 this African American became director of the U.N. Trusteeship division Dr. Ralph Bunche
#4138, aired 2002-09-04NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: In 1993 she became the second Black American elected to serve in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction Carol Moseley Braun
#4106, aired 2002-06-10COACH $200: Tyrone Willingham is the first African-American football coach to lead this school's Fighting Irish Notre Dame
#4086, aired 2002-05-13TOUGH POTPOURRI $1000: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry Gwendolyn Brooks
#4083, aired 2002-05-08TV's PRETTY FACES $600: African-American actor Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs played this character on "Welcome Back, Kotter" (Freddie "Boom Boom") Washington
#4072, aired 2002-04-2320th CENTURY NAMES $1000: In 1992 he became the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar John Singleton
#4066, aired 2002-04-15DEB-UTANTES $1,600 (Daily Double): She was the first African-American to win a medal at a Winter Olympics Debi Thomas
#4034, aired 2002-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: They're the two sisters seen here, celebrating a win Venus & Serena Williams
#4034, aired 2002-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Deborah Roberts of "20/20" always knows when to carry an umbrella; she's married to this NBC weatherman Al Roker
#4034, aired 2002-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: An auto accident in 1937 cut short the life of this legendary blues singer Bessie Smith
#4034, aired 2002-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Writer Zora Neale Hurston was the first black graduate of this college that's affiliated with Columbua Barnard
#4034, aired 2002-02-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This author of "A Poem by Phillis" counted George Washington among her admirers Phillis Wheatley
#4032, aired 2002-02-26ALL ABOUT AFRICA $1600: In 1991 the first African-African American summit was held in this coastal country's city of Abidjan the Ivory Coast (le Côte d'Ivoire)
#4021, aired 2002-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He's not only the first African-American to win the Masters, he's also the first Asian-American Tiger Woods
#4021, aired 2002-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: We salute you if you know Colin Powell was the first black American chairman of this advisory group the Joint Chiefs of Staff
#4021, aired 2002-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. Senator, represented this state, completing Jefferson Davis' term Mississippi
#4021, aired 2002-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1600: This "Invisible Man" author was the first African-American to win the National Book Award (Ralph) Ellison
#4021, aired 2002-02-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $2000: Elected in 1989, he was the first black mayor of New York City David Dinkins
#4011, aired 2002-01-28PLACE $400: In the 1920s African American artists & writers had a "Renaissance" in this New York City neighborhood Harlem
#3944, aired 2001-10-25LITERARY LOCALES $100: African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan Harlem
#3934, aired 2001-10-11NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: 7-letter synonym listed by the American Heritage Dictionary for African American vernacular English ebonics
#3931, aired 2001-10-08MARSHALL MATTERS $200: Appointed by President Johnson, he was the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
#3930, aired 2001-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $100: In 1989, aboard Discovery, Frederick D. Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions a Space Shuttle mission
#3930, aired 2001-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: For his role in "Lilies of the Field", he was the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar Sidney Poitier
#3930, aired 2001-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $300: "On My Honor" from 1975 to 1978 Gloria Randle Scott served as the first black president of this organization Girl Scouts of America
#3930, aired 2001-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $500: In 1950 this U.N. mediator became the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Ralph Bunche
#3930, aired 2001-10-05AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $700 (Daily Double): Robert Weaver, the first black Cabinet member, made himself at "home" in this department in 1966 Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
#3920, aired 2001-09-21BLACK FIRSTS $1000: She was not the first African-American in the Texas Senate, but she was the first African-American woman there Barbara Jordan
#3913, aired 2001-09-12AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $100: In 1989 Bertram Lee & Peter Bynoe became the first black owners of a major sports franchise, this city's NBA Nuggets Denver
#3913, aired 2001-09-12AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: (Hi. I'm Martin Luther King III.) In 1955, my father led a bus boycott in Montgomery after this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat Rosa Parks
#3913, aired 2001-09-12AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1957 it became the USA's first major city with a black majority Washington, D.C.
#3913, aired 2001-09-12AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In the 1940s CORE pioneered sit-ins & also used these protests whose name in show biz means "substitutes" stand-in
#3823, aired 2001-03-28MACON WHOOPEE $400: The African-American museum on Walnut St. bears the name of this female "railroader" Harriet Tubman
#3812, aired 2001-03-13WE'RE NO. 1! $500: Joycelyn Elders was the first African-American to hold this post created in 1870 to direct the Marine Hospital Service Surgeon General
#3744, aired 2000-12-07A.A. $200: This tennis player published 1988's "A Hard Road to Glory", a 3-volume history of African-American athletes Arthur Ashe
#3730, aired 2000-11-17TENNIS $400: At Wimbledon 2000 she became only the second African-American woman to win the singles title Venus Williams
#3707, aired 2000-10-17WOMEN'S RITES $500: Held in 1997 in Philadelphia by African-American women, it was the counterpart of a 1995 event in Washington the Million Woman March
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: A slaveowner's son becomes an abolitionist in "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author Alex Haley
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Macon Dead III, also known as Milkman, is the protagonist of her novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: His 1962 novel "Another Country" is noted for its frank depiction of various sexual & interracial relationships James Baldwin
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: A mother of five is the heroine of "Mama" by this author who helped Stella get her groove back Terry McMillan
#3703, aired 2000-10-11AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Linden Hills" was Gloria Naylor's second novel; her first was "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster Place
#3696, aired 2000-10-02HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This African-American holiday begins on December 26 & lasts for 7 days Kwanzaa
#3685, aired 2000-09-15MERE CASH $600: This monetary unit of Angola shares its name with an African-American holiday the kwanza
#3679, aired 2000-09-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Anthropologists pose as missionaries in "By The Light of My Father's Smile" by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker
#3679, aired 2000-09-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: "Juneteenth", the long-awaited second novel by this black author, was published posthumously in 1999 Ralph Ellison
#3679, aired 2000-09-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: Claude Brown's best-known work is the 1965 autobiography "Manchild in" this place the Promised Land
#3679, aired 2000-09-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Souls of Black Folk" is seen here on a U.S. stamp W.E.B. Du Bois
#3679, aired 2000-09-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: Countee Cullen & Langston Hughes were part of this 1920s NYC movement that echoed an older Italian movement Harlem Renaissance
#3630, aired 2000-05-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" is a book of stories by this Georgia-born author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker
#3630, aired 2000-05-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: "Song of Solomon" was the first of her novels to have a male protagonist Toni Morrison
#3630, aired 2000-05-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: This famed orator who was born a slave wrote the 1855 memoir "My Bondage and My Freedom" Frederick Douglass
#3630, aired 2000-05-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: This poet called her 1976 memoir "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" Maya Angelou
#3630, aired 2000-05-19AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: Ernest J. Gaines "Autobiography of" this fictional woman became an Emmy-winning TV movie starring Cicely Tyson Miss Jane Pittman
#3582, aired 2000-03-14U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: This Texas city is the largest in the U.S. to have an African-American mayor Houston (Lee Brown)
#3558, aired 2000-02-09BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: This important black church was formally organized in 1816 with Richard Allen as its first bishop African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
#3527, aired 1999-12-28AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: It's the only African capital named for an American president Monrovia (Liberia)
#3386, aired 1999-05-03BLACK AMERICANS $200: (Hi, I'm Star Jones of "The View". One of my personal heroes is) this man (who) in 1989 was the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell
#3386, aired 1999-05-03BLACK AMERICANS $1000: While a member of the Robert Peary expedition in 1909, he became the first African-American to reach the North Pole Matthew Henson
#3377, aired 1999-04-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: Ladies & Gents...in the 1970s Bernice Collins took center ring as this circus' first black female clown Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
#3377, aired 1999-04-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: This "Beloved" author was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison
#3335, aired 1999-02-19AMERICAN HISTORY $300: On Oct. 2, 1967 he was sworn in as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
#3281, aired 1998-12-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $200: She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved" Toni Morrison
#3281, aired 1998-12-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein August Wilson
#3281, aired 1998-12-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $800: Octavia Butler writes novels like "Clay's Ark" & "Patternmaster" in this genre Science fiction
#3281, aired 1998-12-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1000: It completes the title of Walter Mosley's 1997 short story collection "Always Outnumbered, Always" this Outgunned
#3281, aired 1998-12-07AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): She co-wrote the screen adaptation of her 1996 novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" Terry McMillan
#3250, aired 1998-10-23AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: He became the highest-ranking American at the U.N. in 1955 when he was named undersecretary Dr. Ralph Bunche
#3170, aired 1998-05-15AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: On Dec. 9, 1992, the first group of U.S. Marines arrived in this African nation to restore order Somalia
#3169, aired 1998-05-14AFRICAN-AMERICANS $100: In 1964 he became the first black American to be named Time's "Man of the Year" Martin Luther King Jr.
#3087, aired 1998-01-20AFRICAN AMERICANS $600: The late Ron Brown was the first black American to head this cabinet department Commerce
#2996, aired 1997-09-15ANNUAL EVENTS $500: The colors green for hope & red for struggle are prominently displayed during this African-American festival Kwanzaa
#2931, aired 1997-05-05AFRICAN HISTORY $100: In the 1500s the Portuguese transported Angolans as slaves to this South American colony Brazil
#2915, aired 1997-04-11NATURE $600: The caracal, a short-tailed African wildcat, is a close relative of this short-tailed North American animal Bobcat
#2874, aired 1997-02-131987 $400: Later chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this African-American became National Security Advisor in 1987 Colin Powell
#2872, aired 1997-02-11AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is a 1970 autobiography by this African-American poet Maya Angelou
#2851, aired 1997-01-13CITY FOUNDERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The American Colonization Society founded this African city in 1822 Monrovia, Liberia
#2846, aired 1997-01-06AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On the night of April 14, 1986, U.S. warplanes bombed Tripoli & Benghazi in this African country Libya
#2817, aired 1996-11-26ANNUAL EVENTS $300: Traditionally, this African-American holiday begins December 26 & lasts for 7 days Kwanzaa
#2810, aired 1996-11-15FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1996 this 20-year-old African-American golfer won a record third consecutive U.S. Amateur title Tiger Woods
#2791, aired 1996-10-21CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This African-American author set her first novel, "The Bluest Eye", in Lorain, Ohio, her birthplace Toni Morrison
#2785, aired 1996-10-11ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: In 1992, aboard the Endeavour, she became the 1st African-American woman in space Mae Jemison
#2766, aired 1996-09-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: Claude McKay was a leading figure in this NYC area's "Renaissance" even though he was born in Jamaica Harlem
#2766, aired 1996-09-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: "Meridian" is an acclaimed novel about the civil rights movement by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker
#2766, aired 1996-09-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: "Song of Solomon" was the 1st novel by this "Beloved" author to feature a male narrator Toni Morrison
#2766, aired 1996-09-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" that he wrote "The Amen Corner", a play about a female evangelist (James) Baldwin
#2709, aired 1996-05-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: The name of this African-American holiday comes from Swahili meaning "first fruits" Kwanzaa
#2705, aired 1996-05-10LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): An African-American woman named Sula Peace is the heroine of this "Beloved" author's novel "Sula" Toni Morrison
#2662, aired 1996-03-12HISTORY $300: In 1848 American-born Joseph Roberts became the first president of this African republic Liberia
#2655, aired 1996-03-01AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari The Snows of Kilimanjaro
#2593, aired 1995-12-06BLACK AMERICA $200: The book "The Black 100" ranks this civil rights leader as the most influential African-American who ever lived Dr. Martin Luther King
#2561, aired 1995-10-23AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): With President Monroe's help, the American Colonization Society founded what's now this African country Liberia
#2555, aired 1995-10-13FOOD $300: This 2-word term that describes traditional African-American fare is fairly recent, c. 1960 soul food
#2493, aired 1995-06-07MUSEUMS $800: A 10-foot mural of Black history adorns a wall of this city's Dusable Museum of African American history Chicago
#2475, aired 1995-05-12TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: The Other Half tour of this restored Colonial capital of Va. focuses on African-American life Williamsburg
#2398, aired 1995-01-25MUSIC $400: The 12-bar type of this "colorful" African-American song style has 3 lines of 4 bars each blues
#2119, aired 1993-11-18AMERICAN MUSEUMS $300: Except for the entrance area, the National Museum of African Art in this city is completely underground Washington, D.C.
#2102, aired 1993-10-261970 $400: This African-American tennis star was denied a visa to play in a South African tournament Arthur Ashe
#2058, aired 1993-07-14HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Kwanza, an African-American holiday, means "first fruits" in this language Swahili
#1990, aired 1993-04-09DEMOCRATS $1000: In February 1989 he became the first African-American to chair a major political party Ron Brown
#1955, aired 1993-02-19ELECTION '92 $3,000 (Daily Double): Carol Moseley Braun of this state became the first African-American woman elected to the Senate Illinois
#1874, aired 1992-10-29MAGAZINES $300: It's been referred to as the African-American version of Life magazine Ebony
#1806, aired 1992-06-08RELIGION $1000: Candomble, practiced in this S. American country's Bahia state, combines African & Catholic elements Brazil
#1799, aired 1992-05-28SPORTS FIGURES $500: After retiring from tennis, he wrote "A Hard Road to Glory", a study of African-American athletes Arthur Ashe
#1785, aired 1992-05-08BLACK HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 American-born Joseph Roberts was elected the first president of this African country Liberia
#1765, aired 1992-04-10CLEVELAND $500: In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city Carl Stokes
#1718, aired 1992-02-05TREATIES $1000: Robert Stockton helped the American Colonization Soc. with an 1821 treaty to secure what is now this African country Liberia
#1594, aired 1991-07-04WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Buchanan, a seaport in this African country, is named for its first American governor Liberia
#1328, aired 1990-05-16POLI SCI $200: The OAU is the Organization of African Unity, & the OAS the Organization of these American States
#878, aired 1988-06-01THE MOVIES $500: Marlene Dietrich's 1st American film, named for the north African country where it was set Morocco
#541, aired 1987-01-05WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: African-born Phillis Wheatley's 1st poems were published in 1770, though she was this an American slave
#147, aired 1985-04-02AFRICA $1,500 (Daily Double): The celebrated South African folksinger who is probably best known for this song: "Igqirhha lendlela nguqo ngqothwane / Igqirhha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane / Igqirha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane" Miriam Makeba

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (12 results returned)

#9016, aired 2024-01-15ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello
#8713, aired 2022-10-05TRAVEL: The 1948 edition of this publication said, "There will be a day... in the near future when this guide will not have to be published" the Green Book
#8606, aired 2022-03-28SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige
#8506, aired 2021-11-08NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston
#7729, aired 2018-03-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS: In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson NASA
#6646, aired 2013-07-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Pennsylvania, Karen Batchelor made news as this organization's first African-American member the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
#5961, aired 2010-07-12ACTORS: With 5 each, these 2 men have the most acting Oscar nominations among African-American performers Morgan Freeman & Denzel Washington
#5014, aired 2006-06-01PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson
#4910, aired 2006-01-06AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES: The only time 3 African-American women were nominated for Oscars for work in the same movie was for this film The Color Purple
#4263, aired 2003-02-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Of the Central American countries, it has the highest percentage of people of African descent Belize
#3745, aired 2000-12-08AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley
#3664, aired 2000-07-06ACADEMY AWARD HISTORY: The first African-American Best Actress nominee, her life was the subject of a 1999 HBO film Dorothy Dandridge

Players (19 results returned)

Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar "He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer "In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room "Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show "He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives "And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, an assistant professor of U.S. and African-American history from University of Colorado 2021 Professors Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College "His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey "She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
Beth Ford, a professor of African-American literature from Wellesley, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2009-06-11).
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers "She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit "Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...



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