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she embarked on her music career with R&B girl group Sista in early-mid 1990s.
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who is Missy Elliot
an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated figures of the 20th century and as one of the greatest boxers of all time. Ali was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky
QUOTE - Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor (on his second nomination) becoming the first black male and Afro-Bahamian actor to win that award.
Sidney Poitier
an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. he was the Court's first African-American justice.
QUOTE - Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Thurgood Marshall
was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
QUOTE - Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
Katherine Johnson
she was an american contralto.she preformed a wide range of music,from opera to spirituals.
Quotes-none of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson
was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association
QUOTE - The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant
was the owner of the popular nightclub Truth and was campaigning to become the next lieutenant governor of New York. He is the main protagonist of the Power series and the posthumous protagonist in Power Book II: Ghost.
James St. Patrick
was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
QUOTE - To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of lives of the Allied forces. As the most prominent African American in the field, he protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as it lacked scientific foundation, and resigned his position with the American Red Cross, which maintained the policy until 1950
QUOTE - "Perform well and segregation will disappear."
Charles Drew
she was an american songwriter. She began her career as an aspiring singer before becoming a prolific songwriter during the 1950s and 1960.
Quote-our family and friends keep us grounded and they are the reason we can all feel like normal people
Rose Marie McCoy
an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's single tennis. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court.
QUOTE - I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Serena Williams
he is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of sixteen entertainers to have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award.
Whoopi Goldberg
is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
QUOTE - Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
QUOTE - I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Mae Jemison
he is widely regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artist in history, and often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Quote- belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
Jay-Z
an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. He received a record seven NL MVP awards, eight Gold Glove awards, a record 12 Silver Slugger awards, and 14 All-Star selections.
QUOTE - But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
Barry Bonds
an American actress and producer. Having won an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American actor to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017
QUOTE - They say to serve is to love. I think to serve is to heal, too
Violas Davis
is an American political activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
QUOTE - Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
was an American physician and author. After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.[a] Crumpler was one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century
QUOTE - Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Often regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, as well as being a pioneer in the Neo soul genre, Hill is widely credited for breaking barriers for female rappers, popularizing melodic rapping and for bringing hip hop to popular music. She is known for being a member of Fugees
Lauren Hill
was an American athlete. She specialized in high jump and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
QUOTE - I always believed I could do whatever I set my mind to.
Alice Coachman
an American actor, rapper, and film producer. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
QUOTE - So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.
Will Smith
was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
QUOTE - Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.
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