4  The Nutty __, (Eddie Murphy's 1996 hit movie)

 9  __ White Band, (funk/jazz band that had the 1975 hit Pick Up The Pieces)

10 Belonging to the same family

11 Count __, (famed pianist, composer & band leader during the big band era of the 1930's and 40's)

13 Alex Haley's ground breaking novel

15 Popular cable channel

16 Funk band that had the 1977 hit single Back in Love Again

17 __ Hayes, (cut the classic 1969 soul album Hot Buttered Soul)

19 Whitney Houston's hit from the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack

21 Mythological figure of the NOI whose work led to the creation of the white race

23 Group formed by ex-members of the group Slave; they had the hit In the Mood to Groove in 1980

24 __ Legs, (Rod Stewart hit song from the 1980's)

25 Mary Mecleod Bethune was a member of this US Presidents "Black cabinet" of advisers on racial matters (init)

26 Grandma ___, (1930's folk painter)

28 Prince slow jam from his Sign Of The Times album

29 __ __ Two, (Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock 1988 hit song)

31 This baseball team's homestate was a slaveholder but remained with Union during the Civil War

33 Arrested Development's hit song from their 1992 debut album

34 Meadowlark ___, (Harlem Globetrotter)

 1  Folk-blues singer that wrote the classic song Goodnight Irene (1930's)

 2  __ Lightning, (1977 Richard Pryor movie about Black stock car racer Wendell Scott)

 3  ___ Long, (she starred in the 1997 movie Love Jones)

 4  Evelyn __, (she starred in the first Black sound film Melancholy Dame in 1928)

 5  Wallace E. ___, ( in 1979 he became the first Black Secretary of Labor for the state of Florida

 6  Shirley __, (she teamed with her husband Lincoln Chase and wrote the hit songs The Nitty Gritty (1963) and The Name Game (1965)

 7  Louie Armstrong's nickname

 8  Bill Pickett invented the technique called bulldogging which is used in this sport

12 He and Rakim had the rap hit, I Know You Got Soul

14 __ Robertson, (legendary NBA player that once averaged a triple-double for an entire season)

18 Oleta ___, (she had the 1991 hit song Get Here)

19 Zulu warrior and king that united the African tribes in the mid 1800's

20 Sonny Liston became heavyweight champion when he knocked this boxer out in the first round (1962)

22 Carl __, (he cut the dance hit She's A Bad Mama Jama in 1981)

24 Gangster movie starring Lawrence Fishburne

25 Hard stone used to help start a fire

26 Lonette __, (this actress starred in The Cotton Club (1984) and Sparkle (1976)

27 She wrote the classic novel Uncle Toms Cabin (1852)

30 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced this groups 1983 hit Just Be Good To Me

32 Sick