| EVARISTO | Bernardine ___, the first black woman to win the Booker Prize |
| MANTEL | Hilary ___, the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies |
| KERIHULME | First New Zealand writer to win the Booker Prize, for The Bone People (4,5) |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| ISABELWILKERSON | "Caste" author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism |
| MORRISON | First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| HALLEBERRY | First Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress: 2 wds. |
| COACHMAN | Alice ___, high jumper who in 1948 became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal |
| NELLALARSEN | The first Black woman to win a Guggenheim fellowship, she explored female sexuality and biracial identity in her debut novel |
| ERIN | ___ Jackson, first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold in an individual sport |
| QUICKSAND | First novel of Nella Larsen, the first Black woman to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship |
| DIANEABBOTT | The Shadow Home Secretary since 2016 and the first black woman to become an MP (5,6) |
| SOPHIA | ... Dunkley, the first black woman to play Test cricket for England. (6) |
| WHOOPI | Goldberg who was the first Black woman to get an EGOT |
| COLEMAN | She was the first Black woman to stage a public flight in America |
| SNL | Show that Cicely Tyson became the first Black woman to host in '79 |
| EBONY | ____ Rainford-Brent, the first black woman to represent England in Test cricket (5) |
| AMOS | Valerie ___ (b.1954), politician and peer, the first black woman to serve in a UK Cabinet (4) |
| TEXASHOLDEM | 2024 hit making Beyonce the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart |
| POITIER | Sidney _, the first black person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (7) |
