Black History Month: Innovators and Entertainers

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  1. 3. You may have heard of this Prince of Motown Through the Grapevine
  2. 4. The credited Godfather of Go-Go music, a local subgenre of funk
  3. 5. Legendary music and film producer responsible for Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall", "Thriller", and "Bad"
  4. 7. Engineer who invented the first cartridge-based video game console, the Fairchild Channel F
  5. 10. Compton born and raised, he writes critically acclaimed music about Black empowerment
  6. 11. Engineer who was pivotal to NASA's early space program and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015
  7. 12. NASA and energy scientist most well-known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun
  8. 15. Groundbreaking viral immunologist and UMBC grad, who is helping to lead NIH in its Covid vaccine research
  9. 16. Mathematician and physician, who became the first African American woman in space in 1992
  10. 17. Revolutionary actor, who became the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
Down
  1. 1. Real life hero, who brought legendary Black heroes to life while fighting his own battle with cancer
  2. 2. The first African-American to earn a Doctorate of Science, he broke barriers in blood transfusions
  3. 6. Scholar and educator, who as president of UMBC, transformed it into a leader for minority scholarship
  4. 8. A member of the Fugees, her "Miseducation" became one of the best-selling albums of all time
  5. 9. Sir Duke himself, jazz composer who helped develop the distinctive American swing sound
  6. 13. Multi-talented singer and actor, who received an Academy Award for his role as blues icon Ray Charles
  7. 14. One of the greatest guitarists of all time, who told us to be Bold as Love