Sister Souljah is one of the most influential American activists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her clash in 1992 with then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton led to what is now known in politics as a "Sister Souljah moment," and her blistering critiques of racial injustice have permeated her eyebrow-raising works as a recording artist, film producer, and best-selling author.

Born in the Bronx, New York in 1964, Lisa Williamson grew up in poverty, became a voracious reader, bewailed America's Eurocentric history curriculums, won the American Legion's Constitutional Oratory Contest, received a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program, attended Rutgers University, travelled extensively through Europe and Africa, helped to organize successful divestment campaigns targeting apartheid-era South Africa, adopted the stage name Sister Souljah, joined the famous hip-hop group Public Enemy, made an infamously controversial statement about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, became a renowned writer, and has settled into a relatively quiet life with her husband and son.

This short book tells the intensely human story of a woman who is changing the world in a way that no one else can.