Black Excellence Month: Day 12

Queen Latifah
Actress  Recording Artist  Songwriter  Model  Producer  Talk Show Host
1970 -

“You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.” 

-Queen Latifah

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Recommended Watching:

• Set it Off
• Living Single
• Brown Sugar
• Chicago
•  Beauty Shop
• Last Holiday
• Hairspray
• Just Wright
• The Queen Latifah Show
• The Queen Latifah Show Youtube Channel  

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Recommended Reading:

• Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman by Queen Latifah
• Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom by Queen Latifah
• Queen of the Scene by Queen Latifah
• Ladies First: Queen Latifah's Afrocentric Music Video
• Can't touch this! Representations of the African American female body in urban rap videos

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Recommended Listening:

• 1989 All Hail the Queen
• 1991: Nature of a Sista
• 1993: Black Reign
• 1998: Order in the Court
• 2004: The Dana Owens Album
• 2007: Trav'lin' Light
• 2009: Persona