These Black female physicians are making an impact on medicine.
Before there was Kamala Harris, there was Shirley Chrisholm, the first Black woman to run for U.S. president
The emphasis in our upbringing was not on being assertive. It wasn’t on being go-getters. It wasn’t on being girls who spoke their minds and went after what they wanted. Those things would get in the way of us being “well-behaved,” you see.
No matter who you wanted to be, we know she's on this list.