Vocab#1: Social Justice

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Across
  1. 5. (noun) Barack Obama's 2008 election victory represented this type of transformative moment
  2. 7. (adjective) Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative shows this spirit in fighting capital punishment
  3. 8. (noun) What the exonerated Central Park Five finally received after decades of wrongful conviction
  4. 10. (adjective) Despite opposition, the push for racial equity in corporate leadership moves forward with this quality
  5. 12. (adjective) Ta-Nehisi Coates' thoughtful commentary on race relations reflects this quality
  6. 13. (verb) Modern movements seek to ___ people from systemic barriers and institutional racism
  7. 14. (verb) How Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem affected a new generation of activists
  8. 15. (noun) The 1619 Project offers this new framework for understanding American history
Down
  1. 1. (noun) Black Panther's box office success captured this of contemporary cultural pride
  2. 2. (noun) Colin Kaepernick demonstrated this trait by continuing his activism despite being blacklisted from the NFL
  3. 3. (noun) Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 may be this of fundamental police reform
  4. 4. (adjective) Representative John Lewis' "good trouble" became this example of peaceful resistance
  5. 6. (adjective) Stacey Abrams' unwavering approach to voter registration efforts in Georgia
  6. 9. (adjective) James Baldwin's essays about American race relations proved to be this
  7. 11. (noun) Critical race theory encourages this form of discussion about systemic racism