The pint-sized superstar is breaking barriers on and off the field.
Born on a sharecropping farm in Texas, Ruth Simmons’ early ambitions were humble. Her earliest goal was simply to work in an office.
Everyone has opinions, but not everyone’s opinions turn them into humor icons.
When her guardian died leaving her no money for law school tuition, she figured trade school was the next best thing.
After her search for a local female mechanic to work with came up empty, Banks decided to take night classes to become one herself.
A lot of 12-year-olds have had the experience of setting up a lemonade stand. But most of them don’t wind up selling lemonade for some of the biggest retailers in the country.
DuVernay left journalism to pursue film. It might have seemed like a setback at the time, but her career move would turn out to be historic.
With stints at Entertainment Tonight and her own pop culture web series on MSNBC, Mock is a media powerhouse.
