Businesswoman and millionaire Turnbo Malone who once employed Madame CJ Walker (she was renamed "Addie" in the miniseries "Self Made," but that was not her name!)
8A
Folk singer Joan who performed at Woodstock at 1:30am while six months pregnant
Verticales
1D
Comic book artist Staples known for "Saga" and "Archie"
2D
Absurd
3D
Soprano Yolanda who released her only album, "Amor en Mil Idiomas," in 1986, in Spanish, English, and Italian