March 2011
19 posts
WatchBlack Women Rock!
February 2011
22 posts
Black Women Rock! Update
Today makes it 1 week away from an event that I have been working on since November 7, 2010. I am SOOO excited because I am just about done with everything. Today alone, I have worked on this event for 10 hours. Talking about HARD WORK!!! I know this event will serve its purpose. And that is to honor many and show that We…BLACK WOMEN…ROCK!! And most importantly, it will inspire and motivate men...
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“I am the author of my life. Unfortunately I’m writing in pen, so I...”
– Unknown
Black History Month: Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg was born in New York, New York to Robert and Emma Johnson. Her parents separated when she was a toddler, and she spent the first years of her life in a public housing project in Manhattan. She got into show business early, performing with the Children’s Program at the Hudson Guild when she was eight. She also performed at the Helena Rubinstein Children’s Theatre as a...
Black History Month: Audre Lorde
Poet, writer Audre Lorde grew up to a leading African American poet and essayist who gave voice to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Her love of poetry started early, and she began writing as a teenager. Lorde attended Hunter College, working to support herself through school. After graduating in 1959, she went on to get a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University in...
“There’ve been times that I thought that I wouldn’t last for long,...”
– Sam Cooke
Black History Month: Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni is a prominent poet and writer who first caught the public’s attention as part of the Black Arts movement of the late 1960s. Growing up in the Cincinnati area, she often visited Knoxville to see family, especially her maternal grandmother. After graduating with honors from Fisk University in 1967, she returned to Cincinnati and established the city’s first Black Arts Festival....
“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about...”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit....”
– Wilma Rudolph
Black History Month: Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge is the Oscar-nominated actress whose career as a leading lady was curtailed by racism and personal problems in the 1950s. As teens she and her sister Vivian were part of an act known as the Dandridge Sisters; they were good enough to reach New York’s famous Cotton Club, and from there Dorothy worked her way into small movie parts in Hollywood. It was not until 1949 that...
Black History Month: Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and school founder who served as an unofficial advisor on African-American issues to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Born to parents who had grown up as slaves, Mary was the only one of 17 children in her family to go to school. After attending bible college in Chicago, she dedicated herself to educating others.
She worked in Georgia...
Black History Month: Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, who worked as a field hand, took care of her younger brother, and cleaned classrooms for tuition in her childhood, worked as a seamstress, office clerk, and domestic as an adult. Rosa Parks became involved in civil rights activity as well, serving as secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama, NAACP chapter.
On December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks was riding a bus home from her job,...
I Know Where I'm Going...
KCOU 88.1 FM Signature Wall
Tonight I went on KCOU 88.1 FM in Columbia to promote the event “Black Women Rock!” and I must say, I HAD SO MUCH FUN. Jut promoting the event and letting people know more about it was amazing. I also had the privilege to do the song selections, which of course; I did a “Black Women Rock!” theme. According to twitter, people enjoyed it and got to realize my purpose...
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Diva of February: Maya Angelou
Writer, dancer, African-American activist. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou spent her difficult formative years moving back and forth between her mother’s and grandmother’s. At age eight, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend, who was killed by her uncles. The event caused the young girl to go mute for nearly six years, and her...
Black History Month: Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman in space. There weren’t many African-American female role models while Jemison was growing up, but she didn’t let that stop her from achieving her goals. She was interested in anthropology, archaeology and astronomy. Her parents encouragement drove her to excel. She graduated from high school at the age of 16 and then earned degrees in chemical...
Black History Month: Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph, the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg.
In her autobiography, Wilma wrote, “Every Saturday when I was a kid my mom would take me on a bus from our home in Clarksville, Tennessee, to a Nashville hospital 60 miles away...
