8
Across
- 2. Activist and singer Paul
- 3. Hip-hop mogul Puff Daddy
- 8. Led Tuskegee Institute
- 9. First female millionaire
- 13. "Hope" campaign figure
- 14. Famous music producer
- 17. Oscar-winning actress
- 20. Nickname of jazz great Louis
- 22. Actor and rapper
- 23. Black-owned lifestyle magazine
- 25. Rapper Kendrick
- 26. Civil rights leader John
- 28. Wrote "A Lesson Before Dying"
- 29. First Black opera singer at the Met
Down
- 1. Neurosurgeon and politician
- 4. "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul"
- 5. Escaped slave and orator
- 6. First Black major league baseball player
- 7. NBA legend Michael
- 10. Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- 11. Guitar legend Hendrix
- 12. Wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
- 15. NAACP co-founder
- 16. First Black U.S. president’s first name
- 18. Influential rapper
- 19. Jazz singer Nat King
- 21. Noted Black baseball player
- 24. Wrote "Invisible Man"
- 27. First name of a jazz legend
- 30. First Black male Oscar winner