Blackness 101

101 moments that stood out in 2017.

Social Media

1. Black teenager who received wrong text inviting him to Thanksgiving last year spends another Thanksgiving with Twitter family
2. #HiddenFences
3. #SecureThePalace
4. Beyonce announces her pregnancy
5. Beyonce posts pics of Rumi and Sir Carter
6. Instagram updates
7. “For the D” Challenge
8. Girl gets IG famous from Howard Homecoming picture. Gets modeling contract offers
9. Tyrese posts about his mental challenges
10. Bow Wow posts fake pics
11. Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian
12. Diddy changes his name to “Brother Love” … changes name back to Diddy 24 hours later
13. Trump’s social media victim trends: All of them are black  Television/Film
14. The release of “Get Out” as a social commentary
15. “Get Out” nominated as a comedy
16. Raven’s Home
17. Viola Davis receives Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for “Fences” and delivers powerful speech
18. “Hidden Figures”
19. “Marshall”
20. OWN picks up new reality show, “Checked Inn,” starring (HU faculty) Monique Greenwood about being a black female inn owner and keeper.
21. “Black-ish” spinoff, “Grown-ish”
22. Bossip has its own show
23. Tamar Braxton and Vince allegations and divorce
24. Xscape reunion and show
25. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian choose surrogate to carry 3rd child
26. Nene comes back to “Real Housewives of Atlanta”
27. Tiny files for divorce from TI
28. Dick Gregory passes away
29. Tracee Ellis Ross wins Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy — 44 years after mom, Diana Ross, wins the same award. Politics
30. Maxine Waters lights up Twitter #ReclaimingMyTime
31. First black mayor of Helena, Montana Wilmot Collins
32. First black mayor of Statesboro, Ga.: Jonathan McCollar
33. First black mayor of Cairo, Ga.: Booker Gainor
34. First black mayor of Milledgeville, Ga.: Mary Parham-Copelan
35. First black mayor of Georgetown, S.C.: Brendon Barber
36. First black mayor of Helena, Mont.: Wilmot Collins
37. First black mayor of St. Paul, Minn.: Melvin Carter
38. First black female mayor of Charlotte: Vi Lyles Music
39. Beyonce became the highest paid female performer
40. SZA’s album becomes black girl’s anthem
41. Chris Brown 45 track album, “Heartbreak on a Full Moon”
42. Kendrick Lamar’s album, “Be Humble”
43. Jay Z 4:44
44. Remy Ma wins Best Female Rapper at BET Awards
45. Beyonce releases feature to support Puerto Rico
46. Cardi B and Offset engaged Fashion/Beauty
47. Fenty Beauty 45 shades
48. Virgil Abloh/Off White Nikes (reselling for $1,000+)
49. Teyana Taylor “It Girl” during Fashion Week – featured in GCDS and Phillip Plein’s show
50. 8 fashion houses/designers featured in New York Fashion Week (most in history)
51. Zoe Kravitz becomes face of Yves Saint Laurent
52. Issa Rae and Ayesha Curry featured as 2017 Cover Girls
53. Shea Moisture attacked by black consumers after ad campaigns featuring white models as primary users of the hair care line
54. Dove attacked for racist ad featured a black woman “transforming” into a white woman to show the process of cleanliness
55. KKW BEAUTY Food
56. Ayesha Curry became a best-selling author after the release of her first cookbook, “The Seasoned Life: Food, Family, Faith, and the Joy of Eating Well”
57. Tia Mowry releases cookbook, “Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You”
58. Oprah releases another cookbook, “Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life” Sports
59. NFL Protests – Colin Kaepernick
60. Warriors win NBA Finals
61. Serena Williams wins Australian Open pregnant
62. Serena Williams gives birth and gets married
63. Nigerian women’s bobsled team qualifies for Winter Olympics
64. Black barbie wears a hijab, modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, a U.S. Olympic fencer
65. Sloane Stephens wins U.S. Open
66. Carla Williams, athletic director for University of Virginia, is the first black woman to hold the position at a Power 5 school
67. Claire Smith, first black woman and first woman to cover a Major League Baseball team full time
68. Jemele Hill silenced on ESPN
69. Lavar Ball/Big Baller brand
70. Marshawn Lynch
71. Mayweather defeats McGregor
72. Russell Westbrook wins MVP
73. Lavar Ball vs. Donald Trump
74. Derrick Rose wants to take a break from Cavs to evaluate his basketball career  News
75. Hurricanes in Texas, Puerto Rico, Florida and elsewhere
76. African-American buying power will reach $1.3 trillion by the end of 2017
77. Missing girls in D.C.
78. The Year of Sex Scandals erupts in October with accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein. Lupita Nyongo comes out as one of the victims of Weinstein’s harassment, and he denies it.
79. Meek Mill’s innocence denied
80. Black female judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam mysteriously died in N.Y.
81. White terrorism in U.S.
82. First black chief at a major airline (Southwest) retires
83. Teen Vogue stops print edition
84. Flint, Michigan, still without clean water Tech
85. Google creates “Google West” in California, a campus exclusively for Howard University students in the technology field
86. iPhone X and iPhone 8
87. Facebook quietly releases Workplace
88. What’s App is no longer available for Blackberry Firsts
89. Tiffany Haddish first black female comedian to host “Saturday Night Live”
90. “Moonlight” becomes the first LGBTQA film to win an Oscar for Best Picture
91. Meghan Markle becomes the first American — and black woman — to get engaged to a member of the Royal Family
92. Viola Davis becomes the first black actress to earn three Oscar nominations
93. Donald Glover becomes first black star to win an Emmy Award for Comedy Series Directing
94. Lena Waithe becomes the first black woman to win an Emmy for writing in a comedy series
95. First black female treasurer sworn in at Hampton County Courthouse in South Carolina
96. First Nigerian women’s bobsledding team
97. Sydni Dion is crowned first black Miss Illinois Teen USA
98. Simone Askew becomes the first black woman to lead West Point Cadets
99. Conde Nast names Elaine Welteroth editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, making her the first black EIC of the magazine and the second black EIC within the Conde Nast publishing family.
100. ABC casts its first black “Bachelorette,” Rachel Lindsay
101. Cardi B is the first female rapper to take the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” in 1998