Soulja Slim (September 9, 1977–November 26, 2003) was an American rapper who achieved modest success on Master P's No Limit record label. [4], In her college years she traveled widely, visiting Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she developed and financed the African Youth Survival Camp for children of homeless families, a six-week summer sleep-away camp in Enfield, North Carolina. Clinton's well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah moment. [14][15] It entered The New York Times bestseller list at No. She felt that the school systems intentionally left out the African origins of civilization. She has been a motivating force behind a number of hip hop artists' efforts to give back to the community, organizing major youth events, programs, and summer camps with artists such as Lauryn Hill, Doug E. Fresh, and Sean "Diddy" Combs.[23]. Sister Souljah and students across the state of New Jersey also organized a successful campaign to get the state of New Jersey to divest more than US$1 billion of its financial holdings in apartheid-era South Africa.

[13] About this, Souljah said: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I'm a college graduate, and if I read something like Romeo and Juliet, I'm reading about a gang fight, I'm reading about young love, young sex, longing. Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sister_Souljah&oldid=980134165, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2016, Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2016, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles containing potentially dated statements from February 2009, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Author, activist, recording artist, film producer, Singles: "The Hate that Hate Produced," "The Final Solution: Slavery’s Back in Effect", This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 20:01. [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. 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. The rapper was gunned down in his mother's front … [2] At age 10, she moved with her family to the suburb of Englewood, New Jersey, a suburb with a strong African American presence, a slight change from the big city feel of the Bronx. [citation needed], In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she was offered a job by Reverend Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice.