Sister Souljah attended Dwight Morrow High School from 1978 to 1981.
A graduate of Rutgers University, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History and African Studies.
Besides, she won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, for which she received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program.
Souljah also studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca.
Sister Souljah attended Dwight Morrow High School from 1978 to 1981.
A graduate of Rutgers University, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History and African Studies.
Besides, she won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, for which she received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program.
Souljah also studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca.
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Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson) was born on January 28, 1964 in the Bronx, New York, United States. At age 10, she moved with her family to the suburbs of Englewood, New Jersey, a suburb with a strong African American presence, a slight change from the big city feel of the Bronx.
Sister Souljah attended Dwight Morrow High School from 1978 to 1981. She graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History and African Studies. Besides, she won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, for which she received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program. Souljah also studied abroad in Europe at the University of Salamanca.
In her college years, she travelled widely, visiting Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. Her education was reinforced with first-hand experiences as she worked in a medical center in Mtepa Tepa, a village located in Zimbabwe, and assisted refugee children from Mozambique. She also traveled to South Africa and Zambia. Studying at Rutgers University, she became a well-known and outspoken voice on campus and wrote for the school newspaper. One of her noted campus initiatives was spearheading a campaign to bring Jesse Jackson to Rutgers to speak against the university's controversial investments in apartheid South Africa at the time when disinvestment from South Africa was a heated political issue.
Sister Souljah was part of the Rutgers Coalition for Divestment, which successfully prompted the Rutgers University administration to divest US$3.6 million in its financial holding companies doing business in that country. 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.
Sister Souljah is an American activist, recording artist, author, and film producer. She gained prominence for Bill Clinton's criticism of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential campaign. Clinton's well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah moment.
