Dr Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist
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Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Sharon Jones
American singer
Tina Turner
The year she turned 45, singer Tina Turner began one of the most impressive comebacks in music history.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis is only the 18th artist to ever achieve the prestigious EGOT, having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony.
Octavia Spencer
American actor
Opal Lee
In 2021, Juneteenth was officially recognized as a federal holiday in the United States thanks in large part to the then-94-year-old Opal Lee.
Leslie Jones
American comedian
Loretta Lynch
U.S. attorney general
Dawn M Blackman Sr.
As Dawn M. Blackman Sr. tells the story, “I was a city girl … I did not know a thing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I started gardening with 10 neighborhood children.” That project, started in her 50s, grew into Randolph Street Community Garden.