Sister Souljah

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Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson, 1964) in the Bronx, New York) is an American author, activist, recording artist, and film director.

During Bill Clinton's characterization of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential race, she rose to prominence.

Clinton's well-known condemnation of her remarks paved the way for what is now known as a Sister Souljah moment in politics.

Early life

Sister Souljah was born in the Bronx, New York. In her book No Disrespect, she describes that she was born into poverty and raised on welfare for many years. She and her family migrated from Englewood, New Jersey, a suburb with a strong African-American presence at the age of 10. In addition, Englewood is home to other well-known black artists, such as George Benson, Eddie Murphy, and Regina Belle. She attended Dwight Morrow High School.

Souljah was dissatisfied with what American students were being taught in school systems around the country. She believed that the education system had intentionally left out the African origins of civilization. In addition, she blasted the absence of a comprehensive African-American history curriculum, saying that all students, black and white, must learn and understand in order to be properly educated. Since the junior high school and high school left out Black history, art, and culture, she felt that she was being taught very little of her history. "I enhanced my education in the white American school system by reading African history, which was deliberately left out of American students' curriculum." She attended Dwight Morrow High School, which had a relatively high percentage of black, Latino, and Jewish students, as well as a majority-black administration at the time of her studies from 1978 to 1981. She served as a legislative intern in the House of Representatives. Souljah earned many awards in her teenage years. She received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program, and she won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest.

She travelled extensively during her college years, visiting Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, and Russia. Her education was enhanced by firsthand experiences while working in a medical center in Mtepa Tepa, Zimbabwe's town, and helping refugees from Mozambique. She has also traveled to South Africa and Zambia. She earned a dual major in American History and African Studies from Rutgers University. She became a well-known and outspoken voice on campus and wrote for the school newspaper. At a time when disinvestment from South Africa was a hot topic, one of her prominent campus initiatives was spearheading a movement to bring Jesse Jackson to Rutgers to protest the university's volatile investments in apartheid South Africa. Sister Souljah was part of the Rutgers University Coalition for Divestment, which successfully prompted the Rutgers University administration to divest US$3.6 million in its financial holding companies doing business in the region. Sister Souljah and students from the state of New Jersey also launched a fruitful struggle to persuade New Jersey to sell more than $1.1 billion of its financial assets in apartheid-era South Africa.

Reverend Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice offered her a job in 1985 during her senior year at Rutgers University. She spent the next three years in Enfield, North Carolina, designing, coordinating, and funding projects such as African Survival Camp, a six-week summer sleepaway camp. In cases including the race murder at Howard Beach, Yusuf Hawkins' racially motivated murder, and more, she was also the founder of the National African Youth-Student Alliance and spoke out against racially motivated violence.

Personal life

Souljah is married to Mike Rich, and he is a good one. Mike Jr. is their son.

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Career

Souljah appeared on several tracks as a featured guest with the hip-hop group Public Enemy, and she became a full member of the group when Professor Griff was forced to leave after making anti-Semitic remarks. In 1992, she released her only album, 360 Degrees of Power.

During an interview on the 1992 Los Angeles riots conducted May 13, 1992, she was quoted in The Washington Post as saying, "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?"

The quotation was later reproduced in the media, and she was widely criticized. Presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticized that statement and Jesse Jackson for allowing her to be on his Rainbow Coalition. The incident resulted in the phrase "Sister Souljah moment" being coined to describe a politician's public repudiation of extremist views that are perceived to have some association with the politician's own faction or party.

In 1994, Sister Souljah published a memoir titled No Disrespect.

In 1999, she made her debut as a novelist with The Coldest Winter Ever. Souljah said that she was the pioneer for starting "a renaissance, or what Chuck D of Public Enemy would call a revolution, of reading." As of March 2016, Souljah was on the New York Times Bestseller List three times. The Coldest Winter Ever was widely acclaimed for making the second wave of the genre known as street literature more popular. About this, Souljah said:

A sequel of the novel, Life After Death, was published in March 2021.

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, originally scheduled for October 14, 2008, was published on November 4, 2008. It tells the backstory of Midnight, a character first introduced in The Coldest Winter Ever. It entered The New York Times bestseller list at No. 7 its first week of publication. The sequel to Midnight, Midnight and the Meaning of Love., was released on April 12, 2011. A third Midnight novel, A Moment of Silence, was published on November 10, 2015. As of March 2016, it had sold over 2 million copies. This novel follows the main character, Midnight, as he attempts to reclaim his innocence and his identity while in prison.

Another spinoff, A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story, originally scheduled for October 23, 2012, was published January 29, 2013.

All of Souljah's novels deal with universal themes of faith, love, and integrity. Most of her novels have become popular among the prison population, with her books being available in many prison libraries. Due to this, she has worked in tandem with Black and Nobel, a Web site that ships books, magazines, and DVDs to prisons nationwide. Her work has also been referenced multiple times in popular culture, including on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.

She also contributes occasional pieces for Essence Magazine, and has written for The New Yorker.

As a community activist, Souljah organized a number of service programs. In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she developed and financed the African Youth Survival Camp for children of homeless families, a six-week summer sleep-away camp in Enfield, North Carolina. This program ran for more than three years. She has been a motivating force behind a number of hip hop artists' efforts to give back to the community, organizing major youth events, programs, and summer camps with artists such as Lauryn Hill, Doug E. Fresh, and Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Souljah was heavily involved with rallies against racial discrimination, police brutality, and the lack of proper education for urban and underrepresented youths. She went on to hold several concerts and protests in New York City, which were supported by many prominent voices in the hip hop community.

Souljah was the executive director of Daddy's House Social Programs Inc. for seven years. It is a not-for-profit corporation for urban youth, financed by Sean "Diddy" Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment. Daddy's House educates and prepares youth, ages 10–16, to be in control of their academic, cultural, and financial lives. The students progressing through the program earn support to travel throughout the world.

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