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- 2. She earned herself an endorsement from Oprah during her campaign to become Georgia’s new governor in 2018.
- 6. The sisters are incredibly decorated athletes, with 122 combined career singles titles and a total of nine Olympic medals between the two of them.
- 8. She launched and achieved success in her solo career. The icon has continued to make history since and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
- 9. Recognized for her affirming and inspiring poetry, which gained much acclaim through her Instagram account. In 2018, Time dubbed her “the poet of her generation,” and her first book, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life, was a bestseller.
- 10. During the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to wear a hijab while competing at the games and win a bronze medal. She’s also a five-time Senior World medalist and World Champion. And in 2017, Mattel produced its first hijab-wearing Barbie, created in her likeness.
- 11. She was the first Black woman to serve as the U.S. representative to the United Nations, Obama’s national security adviser, and was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as domestic policy adviser and director of the Domestic Policy Council during his upcoming administration.
- 12. She was the first Black woman to be named attorney general of the United States during the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017.
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- 1. She wore corrective leg braces, and began swimming initially to build muscle. In 1902, she won and broke the existing records for the ladies’ 100 yards and mile swimming championships, and in 1907 popularised the art of synchronised swimming, with her performance of the first water ballet in a glass tank at the New York Hippodrome.
- 3. She made history in 2018 by becoming the first Black woman to create a presidential portrait for the National Portrait Gallery when she was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama.
- 4. In 2019, she made headlines at age 15 by beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon, becoming the youngest woman to win a match at the prominent tennis championships since 1991. She’s currently the youngest player ranked in the Women’s Tennis Association’s top 100.
- 5. The Afro-Latinx actress has used her platform to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalized groups. In 2019, she was featured on the Time 100
- 7. After an injury developed into gangrene, a surgeon was forced to amputate her leg just below the hip. Despite advice to the contrary, she adamantly refused the idea of an artificial leg.