Across
- 4. George Washington____: famous agricultural inventor
- 6. "Nope" director
- 11. "Three Little Birds" songwriter
- 12. "The Answer": NBA player
- 13. The fastest person on Earth
- 15. 44th U.S. president
- 17. Charlie____: Bebop innovator
- 18. "Hidden____": film centering the contributions of black women to NASA
Down
- 1. Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel
- 2. Ta-Nehisi Coates' 2019 novel
- 3. "Lemonade" musician; winner of 35 Grammy awards
- 5. "Invisible Man" author
- 7. Jazz trumpeter nicknamed "Satchmo"
- 8. "Black Panther" star
- 9. Thurgood____: first African American supreme court justice
- 10. Lonnie____: Super Soaker inventor
- 14. "Beloved" writer
- 16. 1955 World Series winner