Celebrating Black Excellence

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Across
  1. 2. The 49th and current Vice President of the United States
  2. 3. Muslim boxer known for his social message of black pride and black resistance to white domination.
  3. 6. Civil rights speaker who wrote “I have a dream” speech
  4. 8. One of the Exonerated Five, co-author of Punching the Air
  5. 12. The first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the U.S.
  6. 16. African American Muslim minister and human rights activist, popular during the civil rights movement.
  7. 18. Professional tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles
  8. 19. One of the most famous Black female rappers in history
  9. 23. The first black female publisher in North America.
  10. 24. Inaugural poet and first National Youth Poet Laureate
  11. 25. Davis First black woman to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting
  12. 26. Award-winning American stand-up comedian
  13. 27. Black woman, songwriter, singer, rapper, and flutist who stands for body positivity and female empowerment.
  14. 29. Featured on the Canadian $10 bill
  15. 30. Author of the bestseller The Hate U Give.
Down
  1. 1. The first black female “computer” working for NASA
  2. 4. Played for the Lakers with jersey number is 24
  3. 5. First Black president in American history
  4. 7. Didn’t stand up to give up her seat on the bus
  5. 9. Woman who has led hundreds of people through the Underground Railroad.
  6. 10. Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator who wrote in Jamaican Patois.
  7. 11. American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
  8. 13. Female poet and civil rights activist, author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
  9. 14. Jamaican Singer, songwriter, and musician known for his Redemption songs
  10. 15. Slam poet and author of The Poet X
  11. 17. First Black women to travel into space in 1992
  12. 20. South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist
  13. 21. Late actor who portrayed Black Panther
  14. 22. American rap icon of the 1990s
  15. 28. American figure skater who won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics.