Black Excellence Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Is known as "the Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey.”
  2. 4. President and co-founder of Hungry Eyes Film & Television
  3. 5. Best-known for her role as the conservative and crotchety café owner Fatima Dinssa on the hit CBC Television series “Little Mosque on the Prairie”
  4. 6. Sat in the Whites-only section of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
  5. 8. This person won the BET Award for Video Director of the Year 2016.
  6. 9. Author of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, which also won the Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction 2020
  7. 10. The first Canadian woman to win an individual medal in track at the IAAF World Championships.
  8. 11. Is known as “Canada’s Queen of R&B.”
  9. 12. The first woman to hold the position of Chief executive officer of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and provincial ombudsman.
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  1. 1. Won 23 Grand Slam singles titles
  2. 3. Canada's first Black female member of a provincial legislature
  3. 7. She was the first female black veterinarian in Saskatchewan and the first black SVMA president in its history.