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Who run the world? These 10 black female icons, who are still living and making change. Click on the audio player to hear Jasmine Sanders deliver this inspiring list on The D.L. Hughley Showand check out the names written below!

  1. Claudette Colvin
  2. Angela Davis*
  3. Kathleen Cleaver
  4. Ruby Bridges
  5. Dr. Mae Jemison
  6. Janelle Penny Commissiong
  7. Beverly Johnson
  8. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  9. Joyce Bryant
  10. Nichelle Nichols

*Angela Davis is in the U.S., she is a leader in the prison abolition movement and gives talks all over the country. It is activist Assata Shakur who is currently exiled in Cuba, whose administration announced it does not intend to turn her over to the United States. 

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