7 "Willie was a man without _____"
8 (1731-1806) Constructed first clock ever made in America
9 Regie of Love Jones Fame
10 Brooks' (1960) "The Bean _____"
11 MLK had one
13 Simpson's Savior?
16 First African republic
17 Swahili Bad
19 The royal Rogers Nelson
21 J. Gaines (1933-)
23 One by Morrison
24 Written by 5 Down "____ Matters"

1 R. Madhubuti
2 Paul D. did this in Morrison's Beloved
3 1945 this magazine begins publication
4 She knows why the caged bird sings
5 Director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton
6 Black History Month
12 Tubman's Subterranean Transport
14 Dance of Cuban origin
15 Most populous country on the African continent
18 Leader of slave insurrection Charleston SC (1822)
20 The coeditor of Black Fire
22 A civil rights organization during the 1960s