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13 Twinkle Brooks

14 Normani Davidson

15 Sidnesha Banks

16 Billionaire “Billion” Knox

“Baby girl, you don’t have to cry Why are you crying, princess?” I spoke in a soft, sympathetic voice to my five-year-old patient

Her naht her to see me because she had a cold It was flu season, and I cannot tell you how hs that sounded like these little kids had bronchitis, and sneezes that were loud and powerful enough to shake the walls that I had seen I always felt bad when sick kids ca as six h as 105

I reo when I was still wet behind the ears It would always painheart, so it was easy for me to sympathize with my patients Three years later, I could still sympathize; I just wasn’t as emotional as I was in the past

I’m Normani… well, Doctor Norricultural and Mechanical University, where I earned y After that, I was eligible to enter the Medical Scholars Program, where I worked every bone in ree

Growing up, I always knehat I wanted At five years old, if anyone asked rew up, my ansould have been that I wanted to attend FAMU, become an AKA, a pediatrician, and I also wanted to be heavily involved with a church

The love for HBCUs was inBothas a year old, I was in attendance for hoiously attended the Classics I had always been attracted to and convinced that an HBCU was forabout it I loved that I could turn to ht, and everyone there would look like me

Then, the whole Greek and sorority life ae and becoirl, I didn’t really understand the fullan AKA; I just knew that I loved the colors I loved the pretty outfits that my mother would hen she represented her sorority It wasn’t until I got a little bit older, and I researched the organization that I learned about everything it stood for, the sistership, and everything else That’s when I grew er to beco e, and it was easily one of the best decisions that I’ve ever made in my life

My ed For the longest, I wasn’t allowed to say anything, although I always had a feeling that she kneas up my sleeve My mother was always the wo about her I loved the mother she was, the wife she was, and just the type of person she was overall I liked the fact that she wasn’t so judgave my sister and me room for error while I felt like my daddy wanted us to be perfect all the time

We didn’t have to stand before her, free froht us into this world, so she didn’tus bare She didn’tthat was done very seldomly