The subject was just natural for me,” she said. MC Soffia herself is powered by the Black women in her family: Her mom, Kamilah Pimentel, 39, is her manager, while her grandmother, Lucia Makena ...

places and events that shaped black history. One influential person, the First Lady of hip-hop, was born in Wilmington in 1962. Sharon Green, also known as MC Sha-Rock, called the Port City home ...