[6] Englewood is also home to other famous black artists such as George Benson, Eddie Murphy, and Regina Belle.
In addition, she criticized the absence of a comprehensive curriculum of African-American history, which she felt that all students, black and white, needed to learn and understand in order to be properly educated.
"[9] From 1978 to 1981 she attended Dwight Morrow High School, which had a relatively even distribution of black, Latino, and Jewish student enrollment and a majority-black administration during the time of her studies.
She won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, for which she received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program.
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.
[citation needed] In 1985, during her senior year at Rutgers University, she was offered a job by Reverend Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly criticized that statement and Jesse Jackson for allowing her to be on his Rainbow Coalition.
[citation needed] 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,[22] originally scheduled for October 23, 2012, was published January 29, 2013.
Due to this, she has worked in tandem with Black and Nobel, a Web site that ships books, magazines, and DVDs to prisons nationwide.
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 musicians such as Lauryn Hill, Doug E. Fresh, and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
[26] Souljah was heavily involved with rallies against racial discrimination, police brutality and the lack of proper education for urban and underrepresented youths.
It is a non-profit corporation for urban youth, financed by Sean "Diddy" Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment.
Daddy's House educates and prepares people ages ten to sixteen to be in control of their academic, cultural and financial lives.