TOW (& Answer)...

The week’s question was what was Kush?  Kush was the Egyptian name for ancient Nubia, the site of an advanced, ancient black African civilization that rivaled ancient Egypt in wealth, power, and cultural development.

The question (and answer) were taken from p. 1109 of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.  The book was published by Basic Civitas Books in 1999.