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Pioneers: Harriet Tubman

Educated: 

Dr. Hadiya Nicole Green AKA  The Pioneer in the fight against cancer

Michelle Obama

Beautiful: Jackie Aina (She’s also artistic, intelligent, funny)

Uzo Aduba

Soulful: Chargaux 

Nina Simone

Phenomenal:  Oprah  

Beyonce

Hilarious:  Leslie Jones 

Gabourey Sidible

Poetic: Maya Angelou

Lauryn Hill

Confident: 

Marsai Martin

Solange Knowles 

Yara Shahidi 

Fearless: Assata Shakur & Angela Davis

Unwavering:   Lezley McSpadden, Gwen Carr, Wanda Johnson,  and Sybrina Fulton aka Mothers of The Movement

Fighters:  Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi aka founders of #BlackLivesMatter

Visionaries: Ava Duvernay (Director)

Shonda Rhimes (producer, screenwriter)

Determined: Ilhan Omar (Politician)

Olympians:

Gabby Douglas

Simone Biles

Serena and Venus (and someone asking them a dumb question)

Allyson Fellix

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Some Bonus Awesomeness:

Amber Riley

Kerry Washington, Taraji P Henson, and Mary J Blige 

Janelle Monae 

Despite being one of the most disrespected demographics, black women remain to be an integral part of America’s (and also global) history, present, and future. Validate, and humanize them. And take note of all the badassery and awesomeness. 

Poetry

Dont Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

I Shimmer Sometimes Too by Porsha Olayiwola

Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

We Want Our Bodies Back by Jessica Care Moore

Short Stories

How To Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

Shut Up, You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Graphic Novels

The Blue Road by Wayne Compton

Novels

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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