Black history is your history

Claudette Colvin and how to make change at any age

Benjamin Banneker and how to never shrink yourself

Ida B. Wells and why true strength means being vulnerable

Zora Neale Hurston and how to embrace your complex identity

Gordon Parks and when it's time to take a risk

Ledger Smith and how to find confidence in nerve-racking moments

Tommie Smith and how to know who's on your team

Cicely Tyson and why good representation changes lives

Maya Angelou and why your energy is never too much

Patrick Kelly and how rejection can become redirection

Marsha P. Johnson and when to resist your villain era

Mae Jemison and how dreaming big will help you reach the stars.