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This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
In March 2009, Khan was listed in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Muslim Women's Power List. In January 2015, and once again in 2016, Khan was recognised as one of Britain's 500 most influential people, in the Debrett’s War and Peace category as someone who is working towards peace and stability in the United Kingdom.
New business ideas can come from almost anywhere. Sara Blakely’s bright idea was behind her the whole time—literally. In 1998, the founder and former CEO of the women’s shapewear brand was ...
Sara Mora never intended to be an immigration activist but realized there was too much grievance and pain in her community to ignore. Meet the 22-year-old fighting for undocumented communities ...
Sara Treleaven Blakely [1] (born February 27, 1971) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the founder of Spanx , an American intimate apparel company with pants and leggings, founded in Atlanta, Georgia . [ 2 ]
[5] She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1990. [ 6 ] In March 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher endowed chair at Harvard University , which, upon her retirement, will become the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot endowed chair, making her the first African-American woman in Harvard's ...
Around the age of 10, Sara Geurts started to notice how her stretchy skin didn't look like anyone else's. At first, she wasn't insecure about it, because, as she told Mic in an interview, she ...
Sarah Boone (née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor. On April 26, 1892, she obtained United States patent number 473,563 [1] for her improvements to the ironing board.