What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? I don’t have a middle name, Akilah Monifa is my full government name. My birth middle name however is Ann. My first and middle birth names are the same as my maternal grandmother.

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What is the last thing you learned? That ground flaxseed and flaxseed meal are the same thing. I had a recipe for apple spiced muffin that used flaxseed meal.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago was one of the first Caribbean nations to gain independence (1962), led by Dr. Eric Williams, a renowned Black historian whose scholarship helped redefine how African and Caribbean history is taught worldwide. BlackHistoryEveryday.com

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What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. I hate to be asked who won a sporting event when I mention I went to a game. Pedestrian and automatic question. If they were really interested they would have found out.

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Charmin Smith

Charmin Smith born in 1975, since 2019 she is head coach of the California Golden Bears women’s basketball team and the first Black head coach in the history of that program.

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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? I didn’t get into an AI workshop in New York that I applied for, I thought a failure, but that set me up for success, I got into two workshops at the Poynter Institute that served me well and I would not […]

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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I am a Blesbian Boomer.

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