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Africa’s biggest social issues are no match for these girls.
Reminds me of the Powerpuff Girls – love that one of them has empathy as a superpower.
Meet the Ethiopian Superheroes Fighting for Girls’ Rights
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Random Princesses
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
This leader of the labor movement suffered imprisonment, defamation, and untold misery to battle against forces that most of us just take for granted.
Madam C.J. Walker
America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
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Jewish businesswoman who saved thousands of Jews from the Inquisition by smuggling them out of the country.
Jackie Mitchell
In 1931, a seventeen-year-old girl struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in front of a crowd of thousands -- and then was benched into obscurity.
Sophie Morigeau
The only use this Canadian badass had for pretty pink bows was to adorn her own rib — which she amputated from her own body after an accident.