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Gallery: Team Huskie wins Black Queer Excellence Game Show

The Black! Queer! Excellence! Game Show! was co-hosted by the GSRC and CBS on Tuesday in the CBS Classroom.
Sofia Howell
Farouk Olayiwola, Program Manager for the Center for Black Studies, holds up his guess for a round of the Black Queer Excellence Game Show on Tuesday. The Game Show was hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and the Center for Black Studies. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star)
By Sofia Howell, Photojournalist
Feb 26, 2026
Health and human sciences senior Kitzia Martinez writes the Team Three Musketeers’ answer in a round during the Black Queer Excellence Game Show on Tuesday in the Center for Black Studies. The Center for Black Studies will host its next event, Soul Food at Neptune Dining, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
Team Huskie, Center for Black Studies mentor and nursing and general health sciences junior Kristina Bray (left) and education in instructional technology graduate student Jefferson Kiteme, waits for the next round to start of the Black Queer Excellence Game Show on Tuesday in the Center for Black Studies. Team Huskie won first place in the game show. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
Counseling education doctorate student Babatola Arogundade looks over his answers for a round of the Black Queer Excellence Game Show on Tuesday in the Center for Black Studies. Arogundade was a part of Team Awesome during the game show and won second place. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
Team Three Musketeers prepares to answer for Round 7 during the Black Queer Excellence Game Show on Tuesday. Molly Holmes, the director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, and Sam Glaab-Lanigan, the associate director of the GSRC, hosted the game show. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and Center for Black Studies hosts the Black Queer Excellence Game Show in celebration of Black Heritage Month. The game show had 10 participants with five teams: Team Awesome, Team Three Musketeers, Team Huskie, Team CBS and Team BMI. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
Center for Black Studies mentor and nursing and general health sciences junior Kristina Bray (left) and education in instructional technology graduate student Jefferson Kiteme listen to the hosts speak during the Black Queer Excellence Game Show. The game show featured three written clues increasing in difficulty and lastly displayed a photo of the Black queer icons. (Sofia Howell | Northern Star) (Sofia Howell)
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