Celebrating Canadian Black Excellence

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Across
  1. 2. co-founder of the Black Health Education Collaborative
  2. 6. author of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
  3. 7. first Black female lawyer in Canada
  4. 8. the King of inside swing
  5. 12. one of Canada’s oldest Black communities razed in 1964
  6. 13. known as the “Wayne Gretzky of women’s hockey”
  7. 16. largest multicultural African music festival in North America
  8. 18. author of The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power
  9. 19. U of T alumni to drive to have Black History Month recognized across Canada
  10. 20. executive director and a founding member of the Black Action Defence Committee
  11. 22. bookstore highlighting the Black diaspora in Montreal
  12. 25. longest serving member of the Senate of Canada
  13. 26. longest running Black theatre company in Canada
Down
  1. 1. known as the Harlem of the North
  2. 3. wrote “Hymn to Freedom” along with Oscar Peterson
  3. 4. ethnic group making up the largest population of Black francophones in Canada
  4. 5. Montreal’s oldest Black congregation founded in 1907
  5. 9. first Black owned night club in Montreal
  6. 10. youngest player in Canada’s Men’s National Football team
  7. 11. 1971 sprinter representing Canada in three Olympic Games
  8. 14. established the first Black-owned and operated radio station in Canada
  9. 15. 27th Governor General of Canada
  10. 17. one of the founding members of Toronto's Caribbean Carnival
  11. 21. annual Carribbean Carnival in Montreal
  12. 23. first news reporter in Canada to wear a hijab on-air
  13. 24. challenged racial segregation at a cinema in Nova Scotia