Hoyt’s aim, in testing young black people on the history of their ancestors and cultures, was to reconnect them to this history. However, key questions are not only located in the past; today they permeate the unreflective celebration of popular culture and the continued disenfranchisement of people of the African Diaspora. For both black and white, the subject of slavery can never remain neutral. Hoyt’s work called us to re-examine the present in the light of the past; it called us to action.