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