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    Robin Roberts is co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Under her leadership, the broadcast has won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program and the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team.   VIDEOS: WEBSITES: https://www.biography.com/people/robin-roberts-21188247 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/robin-roberts-biography/story?id=128237 https://heightline.com/robin-roberts-newscaster-net-worth/ www.southeastern.edu/news_media/homepage/stories/roberts.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674787.From_the_Heart   BOOKS and more…………….. My story, my song : mother-daughter…

Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem with her sister to live with their father and his third wife. She earned…

  “I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.”   Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban as a young girl in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. For her activism, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in…

First African American woman to be selected for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) astronaut training program and was the first African American woman to travel in space. WEBSITES: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_168.html https://www.space.com/17169-mae-jemison-biography.html https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jemison-Mae.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-Jemison VIDEOS:   Books and more………… African American lives [videorecording]  Astronaut Mae Jemison  Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world …

Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. In June 2016, Sotomayor made headlines when she wrote a scathing dissent  for Utah v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr., a case involving civil liberties in regards to preventing unlawful search and seizures protected by the U.S….