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5 Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Refinery29

Meet the female entrepreneurs changing the face of business. They’re showin’ us their secrets to success and we’re HERE for it.

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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family’s first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Carmelo Anthony

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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

Tanya A. Christian

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The Making of a Young Entrepreneur: Gabrielle Jordan Williams at TEDxRockCreekPark

Gabrielle’s “Dream Big” message has inspired countless youth and adults and reminds the entire population that you are never too young to live your dreams. Gabrielle’s favorite activities include spending quality time with her family and supporting her friends with their business ideas.

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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Misty Copeland on Changing the Face of Ballet | Time 100 | Time

I never thought I could make a career out of something I enjoyed doing something I was passionate about, something that gave me a voice, says Misty Copeland, who is one of the first African Americans to be a soloist with American Ballet Theatre.

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My Mother’s Rules: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Emotional Genius

Lynn Toler shares her mother’s wisdom for learning to conquer anger and become immune to insult.

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Indiana Basketball Player Broke Racial Barrier, Changed Game Forever

Clarence Walker quietly broke the color barrier, wading through a thicket of unforgiving racial tensions along the way, bottling up his private pain for the greater good. He never fired back. He couldn’t.

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Creating a Community and Finding Purpose | Stephen Jon Thompson | TEDxCarsonCity

As a successful executive recruiter in the software industry, Stephen is dedicated to finding and hiring some of the most unique and smartest people in the world. His expertise extends from data scientists who help people make the right purchase when using the Apple.

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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II—an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption—this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

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