Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated musician, actress, producer, label president, author, and entrepreneur.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is one of America’s most important contemporary dance choreographers.
Missy Elliott
Four-time Grammy Award-winner Missy Elliott has attained unprecedented success as a solo musical artist, pioneering songwriter and producer, and cultural icon over the last three decades.
Beatrice Burton
Author, film writer, and actress during the early 20th century
Pearl Bailey
African-American actress, singer, comedian and author.
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks was the first Aboriginal female movie star, alongside being an advocate for her community.
Susan Myrick
Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.
Una Troy
Irish writer
Paola Velasco
Essayist, storyteller, translator, poet, editor, screenwriter and Mexican cultural promoter