At a test kitchen with this name, Freda DeKnight cooked for the column “A Date With a Dish,” which inspired a 2022 Aliko Dangote Hall exhibit curated by Jessica Harris. Panacoco is a “Brazilian” substitute for this material with higher Janka hardness. This material originally named a history museum co-founded by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs that is now called the DuSable. Lerone Bennett Jr. wrote popular history for a magazine named for this material, which competed with Essence and was published with Jet by Chicago’s John H. Johnson. A pure kind of this material from a Gabonese persimmon tree forms stiffer fretboards than rosewood. This wood, whose name comes from ancient Egyptian, partly titles a duet by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder about racial harmony. For 10 points, what dense wood is the traditional material of a piano’s black keys? ■END■
ANSWER: ebony [accept “Ebony and Ivory”; accept Ebony magazine or Ebony Test Kitchen; accept Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art; accept hbny, hebni, Gabon ebony, African ebony, Brazilian ebony, or other varieties; prompt on hardwood or timber or logs until “wood” is read; prompt on Diospyros] (The Africa Center’s exhibit was called “African/American.”)
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