The Daily Beast’s Women in the World summit closed Sunday—an extraordinary three-day session in which some of the most powerful women on the planet met to discuss global challenges and propose solutions, in a stirring call to arms. From Queen Rania and Valerie Jarrett to Hillary Clinton, Nora Ephron and Katie Couric, the assembled blew the roof off with their ideas and their passion for change. Below, watch moments from the summit, including peace activist Leymah Gbowee urging Michelle Obama to meet with African first ladies, Meryl Streep speaking with real-life heroine, Irish civil rights activist Inez McCormack, and Diane Sawyer’s emotional conversation with Marietou Diarra and Molly Melching.

 PhotoBuzz: MARCH 12: (L-R) Event co-host and designer Diane von Furstenberg, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, event co-host and founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast Tina Brown, Queen Rania of Jordan, and event co-host Alyse Nelson attend the ‘Women In The World: Stories and Solutions’ global summit at Hudson Theatre on March 12, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

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Chrisette Michele celebrates Women’s History Month with Atlanta based organization, Sisters of Today and Tomorrow

Atlanta, GA — Sisters of Today & Tomorrow (SOT) hosted “Celebrating Women of Color… One Young Lady at a Time” brunch and celebration on March 6, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The event marked their 6th Annual Women’s History Month Celebration and took place at Big Bethel Village, a senior living facility in affluent Southwest Atlanta, where women, young girls and senior women gathered in celebration of one another with words of encouragement, empowering messages, inspirational songs and dramatic performances. In the above photo, Chrisette is pictured with actresses Chloe Bailey and Halle Bailey.

From politics to music, radio, pageantry, acting and poetry, the speakers and performers were all phenomenal! Def Jam R&B recording artist Chrisette Michele was SOT’s special guest, who excited the crowd of women and girls as she told the audience, “I stand before you as an entrepreneur.” Chrisette and her mother Linette Payne have created “Chrisette Michele LLC,” where they have put together their own tour and merchandising items, employing other women to help develop their businesses. “To all my entrepreneurs be encouraged. It’s a crazy world, however, everything that we do – when we follow our dreams is hard.” She also encouraged the elated audience to “keep your chin up, because often times we may speak to one another with our head down. Let them see you!” she shouted. “A potential investor, sponsor, business partner or boyfriend/husband, can’t see you if your head is down.”

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D.C. has begun a campaign to give away free female condoms in the nation’s capital the first city in the United States to do so.

The initiative is part of a project to help reduce the city’s disproportionate HIV/AIDS rates. In fact, a 2008 report found that D.C.’s HIV/AIDS rate is at 3%, about 15,100 adults

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Everyone deserves a second chance, and Marion Jones is getting hers in the WNBA with the Tulsa Shock. She will play for the coach who invented “40 Minutes of Hell,” and no doubt Nolan Richardson will test whether Jones still can contest the title of World’s Fastest Woman.

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