As Black History Month rolls along, Black Men Emerging and the Omega Psi Phi fraternity continue programs promoting the awareness of black history with Black History Jeopardy on Tuesday evening in the Hughes-Trigg ballroom.

In this trivia competition modeled after the popular game show, four teams of three people answered questions from categories such as famous places, court cases, popular women and inventors associated with black history. After correct answers were given by contestants, a mini-summary about the answers were given by the moderators. The African Bambataa team won the competition and received new CDs as their prize.

Black History Jeopardy came as a culmination of all of the black history facts the organizations have been passing out for the past few weeks during their fundraiser sales and events. According to John Nwisienyi, an Omega Psi Phi member and moderator for the Black History Jeopardy event, in order “to sum it all up, [his fraternity] wanted to do something fun and interactive, as a way to make sure our facts had been visible on campus.”

Having a game show where black history facts were tested was just another way for both associations “to educate people on our history so they won’t be narrow-minded,” Ne-Andre Broussard, Black Men Emerging member and the other moderator of the event said. By “narrow-minded,” Broussard meant that many people are not educated on black achievements because blacks’ were left out of history books in the United States for so long.

Warren Seay, an Omega Psi Phi member, believes this downplaying of black history is “not just a deficiency within the SMU community but also within ourselves.” By this statement, Seay deduced many people, blacks included, are not aware of all the amazing accomplishments blacks have made to history despite obstacles put against them in the past.