Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List

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Across
  1. 4. The 2017 awards season was plagued with announcers embarrassingly saying a mashup of this and Hidden Figures.
  2. 9. In through the nose, out through the mouth, slow and deep to calm the nerves.
  3. 10. The New Jim Crow.
  4. 15. Taking deliberate action with conscious effort to fight bias and racial discrimination.
  5. 17. ...---...
  6. 18. Poet discovered by Langston Hughes was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
  7. 19. The alternative to Chaos Dr. King strove for.
  8. 20. This time and next time, Baldwin and Ward wrote with this.
  9. 22. The struggle may be constant, but it is necessary.
  10. 23. Jubilant, Vibration, or Genetic, this makes for goooood eating!
Down
  1. 1. Less secret than 3 down, Tic and his family helped write similar guides to safe travel in Lovecraft Country.
  2. 2. Another word for the Gullah people, cooking up some good vibrations!
  3. 3. Secret network of allies that helped 100,000 live free.
  4. 5. The head that wears the crown.
  5. 6. This 93 year old Calypso King was a major supporter of the Civil Rights Movement.
  6. 7. Hidden (or not so hidden) Prejudice that shapes what we see.
  7. 8. He launched the precursor to Black History Month
  8. 11. There's very little Marguerite Annie Johnson didn't do: Singing, dancing, acting, directing, cooking, and of course poetry. You know her by a different name.
  9. 12. Even caged birds do this.
  10. 13. Wrote the titular book of this list.
  11. 14. The criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
  12. 16. Chloe Adelia Wofford won the Nobel Prize, but you know her by a different name.
  13. 21. Most years only have four, but "All ages must come to an end"