One of the first successful females in hip-hop, Roxanne Shante earned an Ivy League doctorate degree from Cornell after losing out on her royalty checks in a faulty record deal.




"This is a story that needs to be told," Shante said. "I'm an example that you can be a teenage mom, come from the projects, and be raised by a single parent, and you can still come out of it a doctor."






With little to no choices Shante was not taking no for an answer. Read more of her inspirational story here.


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