Name a successful Woman of Color
1. Beyonce Knowles-Carter
Kickass entertainer, self-made brazilianaire, good progressive, feminist, gives oodles to charity, and first-class lemonade maker.
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"flawed".
I know what that's code for.
...it wasn't meant to denigrate your idol. 
...maybe you should mind your own fucking business and stop with the lame-ass, internet tough-guy insults, m'kay? Thnx. 
She's not afraid to speak out - and whenever I see her on the news, I know I need to stop and pay attention. We need so many more just like her!
And someone said she's not a good feminist, so there.
who spoke so beautifully that someone remarked that God must sound like Barbara Jordan. 
Shirley Chisholm-- first AA woman elected to Congress.
Barbara Jordan-- first AA Congresswoman from the deep south
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Anita Hill; history has more than vindicated her.
Founded and owns Radio One, TV One, Syndication One (the latter merged with Reach Media), & Interactive One, along with a large number of radio stations playing different formats including hip hop/urban contemporary and black talk.
vimeo.com/201210882
One of the nation's wealthiest black, female entrepreneurs shares her secrets to success
by Safon Floyd Posted: February 5, 2017
With a reported net worth of $460 million, Cathy Hughes, the second wealthiest African American woman in the nation, has made a resounding impact on black media having pioneered Radio One, a BE 100s company and one the of the most successful and lucrative black-owned media companies to date.
If you’ve listened to The Quiet Storm on the radio, watched your favorite shows on TV One, or perused an Interactive One digital outlet, you’ve experienced Hughes media influence.
A gifted trendsetter, she has thrived for more than 30 years in an ever-changing often directionless industry, yet she still hesitates to be called a success.
Adding to her list of accomplishments, the media mogul was recently honored by Howard University with the renaming of the school of communications to the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/career/top-careers/cathy-hughes-entertainment-industry/
Nguyễn Thị Bình (born Nguyễn Châu Sa; 26 May 1927) is a Vietnamese communist leader who negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference on behalf of the Viet Cong, or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.
Life and workEdit
She was born in 1927 in Saigon and is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh.[1] She studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia and worked as a teacher during the French colonisation of Vietnam. She joined Vietnam's Communist Party in 1948. From 1945 to 1951, she took part in various intellectual movements against the French colonists. Subsequently, she was arrested and jailed between 1951 and 1953 inChí Hòa Prison (Saigon) by the French colonial authority in Vietnam.[2]
During the Vietnam War, she became a member of the Vietcong's Central Committeeand a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese Women's Liberation Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and played a major role in the Paris Peace Accords on Vietnam, an agreement that was supposed to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam, which was signed in Paris and which entered into force 17 January 1973.[3] She was one of those who signed the Paris Peace Accords.
After the Vietnam War, she was appointedMinister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam[3] and from 1982 to 1986 was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party, since 1987 to 1992 was Vice Head of the Central External Relations Department of Party. The National Assembly elected her twice to the position ofVice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 and 1997–2002.
Vice President of Vietnam
1992–2002
...She used ancient techniques for making and firing pottery and used designs from "Old Hopi" pottery and sherds found at 15th-century Sikyátki ruins on First Mesa. Her artwork is in collections in the United States and Europe, including many museums like theNational Museum of American Art, Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology atHarvard University.
Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn clan.
(Nampeyo pictured with some of her work, circa 1910)
"Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist,newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist,feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.[3]
In the 1890's, Wells documented lynching in the United States. She showed that lynching was often used in the South as a way to control or punish Black people who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by black people, as was usually claimed by whites.[4] She was active inwomen's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours.[5]"
Years ago, my Dad was lucky enough to meet her - and she so thoroughly impressed him that he became an admirer for life!
...Joy Reid - who was mentioned, of course! In reading them, I confess the entertainers are really a second tier for me - but I did think Eartha Kitt was one of the best women of color. She always seemed to wear it so prominently. She took an "in your face" quality wherever she went. I thought I had a great name to add, but did see her noted, as I read down. Rita Moreno has the same quality.
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Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.
Yes, she went astray and paid the ultimate price for it, but undeniably Whitney Houston was a successful woman of color. Similar fate for Billie Holiday (Strange Fruit). Jazz/Pop songstress, Grammy Hall of Fame
Awesome tribute to our sisters of color but, unfortunately, we barely scratched the surface. There are so many, many more unnamed successful women of color from various ethnicities and broad spectrum of industries. I LOVE, HONOR and SALUTE YOU ALL.
I've gotten caught up in this thread and should move on otherwise I could make this a multi-page thread. Loved reading the remembrances/responses of others. Great topic obamanut2012, thank you for posting.
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She makes the world a funnier, better place. And her huge fan base knows it.
“My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.”
-- Carol Moseley Braun
“I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.”
-- Carol Moseley Braun
“It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.”
-- Carol Moseley Braun
I was sure someone else would have named her - I was on DU during that whole campaign and I followed the candidates closely. We sure had some good ones that year. 
In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She was an Honorary Councillor of the World Future Council. In 2011, Maathai died of complications from ovarian cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai
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