In fact, her iconic track “Mississippi Goddam” was in response to the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four African American girls.

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Google's front page Wednesday is all about Edmonia Lewis, the first African-American woman to achieve international fame as a sculptor. The search engine, which sometimes uses its home page to ...

The book encourages African American girls to boldly and unapologetically love the skin that they are in. It is affectionately regarded as the “Black Girl’s Anthem.” ...

Abroad, Lewis created one of her most famous pieces, "The Death of Cleopatra," which is now housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The same piece is illustrated in her Google Doodle.