Black Excellence Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Is known as "the Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey.”
  2. 4. She was the first female black veterinarian in Saskatchewan and the first black SVMA president in its history.
  3. 6. Is known as “Canada’s Queen of R&B.”
  4. 8. Won 23 Grand Slam singles titles
  5. 9. President and co-founder of Hungry Eyes Film & Television
  6. 10. in the Whites-only section of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
  7. 11. Desmond
  8. 12. This person won the BET Award for Video Director of the Year 2016.
  9. 13. Best-known for her role as the conservative and crotchety café owner Fatima Dinssa on the hit CBC Television series “Little Mosque on the Prairie”
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  1. 1. Author of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, which also won the Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction 2020
  2. 3. The first Canadian woman to win an individual medal in track at the IAAF World Championships.
  3. 5. The first woman to hold the position of Chief executive officer of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and provincial ombudsman.
  4. 7. Canada's first Black female member of a provincial legislature