Weekly Quiz: Black History Made, TV Farewells, US Open

Montenegro is a tiny country in Southeast Europe, with a population of less than 1 Million. In its latest parliamentary elections, which took place this week, the opposition parties saw their first victory in 30 years.

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Fun Beyoncé Fact

Singer and all-around superstar Beyoncé pledged an additional $1m to black-owned small businesses – as her 39th birthday gift to herself. According to the singer’s announcement, her philanthropic organization BeyGOOD has partnered with the NAACP on the donation.

“The 1619 Project” is the New York Times’ highly-acclaimed historic project. Educators are vowing to teach it in schools. An expanded edition of “The 1619 Project” in a book came out Nov. 2021.

That’s right! The new Dune film stars Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Momoa, and Oscar Isaac. It includes two parts – the first of which will be in theaters on December 18th, 2020.

The world’s No. 1 tennis player was defaulted Sunday, at the US Open, when he struck a line judge with a ball.

Penny E. Harrington became the first female chief of the Portland Police Bureau in 1985 and was forced to resign a year later. She later filed a federal sex discrimination suit. 

Now, in the aftermath of the Breonna Taylor killing by Louisville police officers, the city is getting its first Black female chief of police, Yvette Gentry.

Amid the UK plans to break the Brexit divorce treaty with the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, tweeted she was ‘Very Concerned’ and added in Latin, ‘Agreements must be kept.’

Hilton, great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder, now insists that her bubble-head public personality is very different from her actual one.

Paris Hilton’s YouTube Originals documentary This Is Paris premieres Sept. 14. The 39-year-old DJ and businesswoman opened up for the first time about a secret abuse she suffered at a Utah boarding school she attended. 

Playa Las Gatas is actually in Mexico. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro, though, have celebrated their Independence Day by heading to the beach this weekend. This is happening while Brazil is trying to cope with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

After 30 years of Islamic law, Sudan is now separating religion and state. 

Belarus activist Maria Kolesnikova (pictured) was kidnapped and sent to the Ukraine border, where she tore her passport to avoid expulsion. One year later, on Sept. 8, 2021, She was sentenced to 11 years in prison for extremism, conspiring to seize power illegally, and damaging state security.