5  __ Ranks, had the 1988 reggae hit Mr. Loverman

10 Boxer with the nickname Real Deal

11 Late author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

12 Former leader of the Nation of Islam

15 The distinctive taste of a food or drink

16 African country bordered by Angola and South Africa

17 Gail Fisher is the only Black actress to receive this award given by the Lee Strasberg Actors Studio

18 One ___, popular vitamin brandname

19 Popular African-American lifestyle magazine

20 Sir Mix-A-Lot's girl must have plenty of this

22 __ Webb, shortest players to win the NBA slam dunk contest

25 1992 comedy with Damon Wayans as a con man that goes straight after he falls in love

27 __ Brown, jazz guitarist with smash '94 album After The Storm

28 James T. __, elected in 1873, he was one of the first Blacks to represent Alabama in Congress

31 1997 gangster movie starring Lawrence Fishburn as Bumby Johnson

32 Franklin __, one of the four students that staged the Civil Rights sit-in movement at F.W. Woolworth's in 1960

33 How to be a __, '97 comedy starring Bill Bellamy as a smooth operating womanizer

34 Gale __, star running back for the Chicago Bears in the 1960's

 2  Brand New __, British band that blends soul with a jazz/funk twist

 3  Joshua __, saxophonist that cut the 1996 album Freedom in the Groove

 4  __ Wells, she had the hit song My Guy in 1964

 5  Had the 1994 hit Kiss of a Rose from the Batman soundtrack

 6  Singer Bofill or activist Davis

 7  Toni Morrison's novel about a runaway slave mother who kills her children so they won't be recaptured

 8  He had the 2013 hit song, All of Me

 9  Donald Gaines __, in 1935 he was denied entry into the Univ of Maryland law school, but the NAACP fought and got him admitted

13 Lionel __, legendary jazz vibraphone player and bandleader

14 Term used to describe the racist segregation laws in the South after slavery

15 Cecil __, he hit 51 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1990

20 Ralph ___, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for peace negotiations in the Middle East

21 In 1968, she became the first Black woman to have a weekly T.V. series; Diahann ___

23 He starred in the 1961 classic A Raisin in the Sun

24 Tommy and Jimmy __, jazzy band leader brothers during the Big Band era

25 Ziggy __, one of Bob's sons

26 Jimmy and Mama __, husband and wife boogie woogie blues team from the 1930's

29 ___ Hammer, male British soul singer that cut the album There Nothing Like This, in 1991

30 He played the father on the classic Good Times TV series