Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson, 1964) is an American author, activist, recording artist, and film producer. She gained prominence for Bill Clinton\'s criticism of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential campaign. Clinton\'s well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah moment.\n', '

Sister Souljah was born in the Bronx, New York. She recounts in her memoir No Disrespect that she was born into poverty and raised on welfare for some years. At age 10, she moved with her family to the suburbs of Englewood, New Jersey, a suburb with a strong African American presence, a slight change from the big city feel of the Bronx. Englewood is also home to other famous black artists such as George Benson, Eddie Murphy, and Regina Belle. There she attended Dwight Morrow High School.\n', '

Souljah disliked what American students were being taught in school systems across the country. She felt that the school systems intentionally left out the African origins of civilization. Also, she criticized the absence of a comprehensive curriculum of African American history, which she felt that all students, black and white, needed to learn and understand in order to be properly educated. She felt that she was being taught very little of her history, since the junior high school and high school left out Black History, art, and culture. "I supplemented my education in the white American school system by reading African history, which was intentionally left out of the curriculum of American students." From 1978 to 1981 she attended Dwight Morrow High School, which had a relatively even distribution of black, Latino, and Jewish student enrollment and a majority-black administration during the time of her studies. She was a legislative intern in the House of Representatives.[citation needed] Souljah was also the recipient of several honors during her teenage years. She won the American Legion\'s Constitutional Oratory Contest, for which she received a scholarship to attend Cornell University\'s Advanced Summer Program.\n', '

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