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We go into every year with high hopes and goals for ourselves, because every year is supposed to call for a fresh start. But the women on this list of sistahs who lived their very best life in 2017 managed to exceed the usual good tidings and hopes to avoid drama. They found themselves reaching their peak both professionally and personally, and the world was watching and rooting for them along the way. See 17 Black women who certainly couldn’t have asked for a much better year than what 2017 offered them.

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Cardi B

Cardi went from struggling to get her music played on the radio while starring on Love and Hip Hop New York to going number one on the music charts, covering a number of major magazines and getting engaged to rapper Offset. She went from a regular degular shmegular girl from the Bronx to a household name, and she didn’t have to change one thing about herself.

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