Sister Souljah
Lisa Williamson
Today, Souljah is a 21st Century multidimensional woman. From 1995-2007 she was the Executive Director of Daddy's House Social Programs, the charitable wing of Bad Boy Entertainment. She is the author of 2 national best sellers, The Coldest Winter Ever, and No Disrespect. Her new novel will be published in 2008, a Coldest Winter Ever sequel. She has also been happily married for over 15 years and has one child.
Born in Bronx, New York, raised in the projects, Souljah is a fighter who came up from the bottom. A graduate of Rutgers University, she earned a degree in American History and African Studies. She also attended the Cornell University Advanced Placement Studies, and studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca.
A global student, Sister Souljah traveled throughout her college years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. Her academic accomplishments were reinforced with first hand experiences. She worked to build a medical center for families in Bindura, Zimbabwe. She worked with refugee children from Mozambique. A major participant in the international student anti-aparthied movement, she helped to create a momentum, movement and fervor which liberated Nelson Mandela and brought about the divestment of millions of dollars from corporations doing business with apartheid South Africa. Her travels in Africa also included Zambia and South Africa. She believes it is essential that African professionals help one another to save our continent , resources, families, and children.
As a student activist in America, Souljah created, financed, and implemented the African Youth Survival Camp, a six week summer sleep away academic/cultural camp for 200 children of homeless families. With a skillful curriculum, which she designed, this camp ran for over 3 consecutive years and inspired major celebrities to start their own camps and schools, and to build charities and institutions to give back.
As a community activist, Souljah organized against racially motivated crimes, police brutality, and the miseducation of urban youth. She produced and promoted several outdoor rallies and concerts, in Harlem NY, which drew nearly 30, 000 youth each time, as well as the participation of top Hip-Hop and R&B celebrities.
In the field of entertainment, Souljah has been on many platforms including radio and television. Before the political shutdown and attack on American 1st amendment rights, she was the young voice in NY radio that spoke to the hip-hop audience about politics, culture, business, and social organization. This includes being a featured speaker at the Million Woman March, appearances on Oprah Winfrey, Larry King Live, and the cover of Newsweek Magazine. As a Hip-Hop artist, Souljah's CD entitled "360 degrees of Power," sparked international debate over issues of race, culture, sexism, and politics. Additionally, the entire world awaits the release of her first film, The Coldest Winter Ever.
As an artist, Sister Souljah appeared on several tracks as a featured guest with Public Enemy and she became a full member of the group when Professor Griff left the group after allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks. In 1992, she released her only solo album, 360 Degrees of Power. Both of her videos, "The Final Solution: Slavery's Back in Effect" and "The Hate that Hate Produced," were banned by MTV. Her album sold only 27,000 copies, and so her label, Epic/SME Records, dropped her. It is believed that the album sold poorly due to public backlash from her comments in response to the beating of Rodney King, but it also received terrible reviews in the music press.
Sister Souljah is a name known to many, in part due to her statements that year about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In an interview conducted May 13, 1992, she was quoted in the Washington Post as saying:
"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people? "
The quote was later reproduced in the media and she was widely criticized. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticized that statement and Jesse Jackson for allowing her to be on his Rainbow Coalition thus the Sister Souljah moment was created. At then time, presidential candidate Bill Clinton responded both to that quote and to something she had said in a music video ("If there are any good white people, I haven't met them")while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Rainbow Coalition, saying, "If you took the words "white" and "black" and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech." Clinton response was harshly criticized by Jackson, who said Sister Souljah "represents the feelings and hopes of a whole generation of people" and claimed that she had been misquoted. Clinton was also criticized by some of the Democratic Party's other African-American supporters. Clinton was accused by Sister Souljah herself of being a racist and a hypocrite because he had golfed at a country club that refused to admit black members.
Sister Souljah has always been and continues to a beacon of light, truth and the continuing process of bettering other people. Sister Souljah gives inspirational speeches and lectures on a variety of topics from Family; How to Make it Right, Tight & Strong to Making Deals, Building Empires, Entrepreneurial Skills and Strategies and several more topics. For a complete list of her lecture topics and to learn how to schedule an event to have Sister Souljah speak, please e-mail,phone and/or visit:
http://www.sistersouljah.com/home.html
E-mail:
Phone: 201-357-8781
[Direct Business Phone]
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Born in Bronx, New York, raised in the projects, Souljah is a fighter who came up from the bottom. A graduate of Rutgers University, she earned a degree in American History and African Studies. She also attended the Cornell University Advanced Placement Studies, and studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca.
A global student, Sister Souljah traveled throughout her college years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. Her academic accomplishments were reinforced with first hand experiences. She worked to build a medical center for families in Bindura, Zimbabwe. She worked with refugee children from Mozambique. A major participant in the international student anti-aparthied movement, she helped to create a momentum, movement and fervor which liberated Nelson Mandela and brought about the divestment of millions of dollars from corporations doing business with apartheid South Africa. Her travels in Africa also included Zambia and South Africa. She believes it is essential that African professionals help one another to save our continent , resources, families, and children.
As a student activist in America, Souljah created, financed, and implemented the African Youth Survival Camp, a six week summer sleep away academic/cultural camp for 200 children of homeless families. With a skillful curriculum, which she designed, this camp ran for over 3 consecutive years and inspired major celebrities to start their own camps and schools, and to build charities and institutions to give back.
As a community activist, Souljah organized against racially motivated crimes, police brutality, and the miseducation of urban youth. She produced and promoted several outdoor rallies and concerts, in Harlem NY, which drew nearly 30, 000 youth each time, as well as the participation of top Hip-Hop and R&B celebrities.
In the field of entertainment, Souljah has been on many platforms including radio and television. Before the political shutdown and attack on American 1st amendment rights, she was the young voice in NY radio that spoke to the hip-hop audience about politics, culture, business, and social organization. This includes being a featured speaker at the Million Woman March, appearances on Oprah Winfrey, Larry King Live, and the cover of Newsweek Magazine. As a Hip-Hop artist, Souljah's CD entitled "360 degrees of Power," sparked international debate over issues of race, culture, sexism, and politics. Additionally, the entire world awaits the release of her first film, The Coldest Winter Ever.
As an artist, Sister Souljah appeared on several tracks as a featured guest with Public Enemy and she became a full member of the group when Professor Griff left the group after allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks. In 1992, she released her only solo album, 360 Degrees of Power. Both of her videos, "The Final Solution: Slavery's Back in Effect" and "The Hate that Hate Produced," were banned by MTV. Her album sold only 27,000 copies, and so her label, Epic/SME Records, dropped her. It is believed that the album sold poorly due to public backlash from her comments in response to the beating of Rodney King, but it also received terrible reviews in the music press.
Sister Souljah is a name known to many, in part due to her statements that year about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In an interview conducted May 13, 1992, she was quoted in the Washington Post as saying:
"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people? "
The quote was later reproduced in the media and she was widely criticized. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticized that statement and Jesse Jackson for allowing her to be on his Rainbow Coalition thus the Sister Souljah moment was created. At then time, presidential candidate Bill Clinton responded both to that quote and to something she had said in a music video ("If there are any good white people, I haven't met them")while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Rainbow Coalition, saying, "If you took the words "white" and "black" and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech." Clinton response was harshly criticized by Jackson, who said Sister Souljah "represents the feelings and hopes of a whole generation of people" and claimed that she had been misquoted. Clinton was also criticized by some of the Democratic Party's other African-American supporters. Clinton was accused by Sister Souljah herself of being a racist and a hypocrite because he had golfed at a country club that refused to admit black members.
Sister Souljah has always been and continues to a beacon of light, truth and the continuing process of bettering other people. Sister Souljah gives inspirational speeches and lectures on a variety of topics from Family; How to Make it Right, Tight & Strong to Making Deals, Building Empires, Entrepreneurial Skills and Strategies and several more topics. For a complete list of her lecture topics and to learn how to schedule an event to have Sister Souljah speak, please e-mail,phone and/or visit:
http://www.sistersouljah.com/home.html
E-mail:
Phone: 201-357-8781
[Direct Business Phone]
