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  1. 3. Annual event in Nova Scotia celebrating African Nova Scotian culture and history.
  2. 5. A small island in Nova Scotia with a vibrant African Nova Scotian community.
  3. 6. An Influential African Nova Scotian journalist and human rights advocate who went by the nickname “Rocky”.
  4. 7. Nova Scotia has more than___historic African Nova Scotian communities with a long, deep and complex history dating back more than 400 years.
  5. 9. A documentary of the Coloured Hockey League in Nova Scotia in 1895 that explores the same systemic anti-Black racist issues that past players faced and current players face today.
  6. 10. African Nova Scotian, educator and author of the book “The System Almost H.A.D Me!”
Down
  1. 1. A close‐knit Black community in the north end of Halifax for over 120 years, ___ was demolished by the City in the 1960s, and its residents have been fighting for justice ever since.
  2. 2. This Jamaican-Canadian was one of the greatest sprinters of all time. In 1996, he was the world’s fastest man for his world record time in the100-metre.
  3. 4. During the American War of Independence, British Authorities made promises of freedom to slaves of rebels who had escaped and made their way into British lines. Over three thousand of these ___ ___ settled in NS.
  4. 8. When ___ of Whitney Pier joined the Sydney Police Service in 1964, he became the first black municipal police officer east of Montreal.