Across
- 3. first Black woman to direct a Marvel film
- 7. refused to give her seat up on a bus
- 9. youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history
- 13. Princeton’s first Black valedictorian
- 15. first Black woman to serve as chair of Starbucks board
- 16. Oscar-winning director of the animated short “Hair Love”
- 18. first Black astronaut to live and work at the International Space Station
- 19. seven-time Olympic medalist gymnast
- 20. first Black man to be student body president at Harvard
Down
- 1. first Black woman CEO in the NBA
- 2. first Black president of a National Football League team
- 4. the peanut man
- 5. first Black woman to run a self-driving car company
- 6. one of the world's best-selling recording artists of all time. Within her three-decade career
- 8. made history after becoming the first openly gay woman and second Black woman ever to brief White House press
- 10. Georgia’s first Black senator
- 11. first woman Vice President
- 12. author of “All Boys Aren’t Blue” a collection of personal essays that explore their experiences as a LGBTQIA+ young person.
- 14. first Black executive to run a major television news network
- 17. Missouri’s first Black Congresswoman
