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Across
  1. 6. Early African American musical expression combining work songs and spiritual traditions
  2. 7. First African American woman in space
  3. 9. generational group most engaged in Black church traditions
  4. 11. won the inaugural Kentucky Derby in 1875
  5. 14. Musical style that preceded hip-hop, featuring funk and soul elements
  6. 18. an afrofuturist musical group
  7. 19. largest non-Christian religious group among Black Americans
  8. 20. Black science fiction writer
  9. 22. a symbol of Black power, gesture of protest made by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics
  10. 23. generational group least likely to attend Black churches
  11. 25. state with the largest Black population in 2019
  12. 28. The site of a study on syphilis that exploited Black American men, who were not treated even after a treatment became available.
Down
  1. 1. Influential African American playwright who wrote FENCES
  2. 2. Legendary dance show created in 1971 that celebrated Black music and culture
  3. 3. first Black Major League baseball player to break the color barrier
  4. 4. musical genre that emerged from African American urban communities in the late 1970s
  5. 5. The character played by Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek. She also helped to recruit African American, Asian American, and women astronauts!
  6. 7. Many HBCUs established these because Black medical professionals were barred from the American Medical Association
  7. 8. region where 56% of Black Americans resided in 2019
  8. 10. artistic movement reimagining Black pasts and futures
  9. 12. Boxer who refused to be drafted during Vietnam War, citing racial injustice
  10. 13. A NASA engineer, her story is told in the movie HIDDEN FIGURES
  11. 15. Runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics
  12. 16. These "Immortal" cancer cells that were taken from Henrietta Lacks at Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her permission revolutionized medical research
  13. 17. religious group that makes up 66% of Black adults
  14. 21. rhythmic dance style associated with early hip-hop culture
  15. 24. Pioneering Black filmmaker who produced nearly 50 films challenging racist stereotypes
  16. 26. Athlete who began a movement to kneel at games during the national anthem to bring attention to police brutality.
  17. 27. a play set in 1950s Pittsburgh about conflict between a father, who was held back by discrimination in the baseball Negro Leagues, and his young son who aspires to play professional football.