Akilah Bolden-Monifa aka Akilah Monifa aka Kiki aka Elizabeth Ann Thompson born 4/3/57 in Manhattan, Kansas. co-founder/publisher along with her business partner, MacArthur Flournoy for Arise 2 point oh. Also Editor-in chief. Developed Alexa flash briefing skill “black history everyday”
Read more "Akilah Monifa"Misty Copeland born 9/10/82 in Kansas City, Missouri. she has been called the Jackie Robinson of Modern Ballet, She was the first black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre
Read more "Misty Copeland"Mary MacLeod Bethune, Sunrise 7/11/1875 Mayersville, South Carolina, sunset 5/18/1955 Daytona Beach, Florida, born Mary Jane MacLeod. known as the first lady of the struggle. in FDR’s black cabinet. started a school for black girls. one of the few women who were college presidents in her day.
Read more "Mary MacLeod Bethune"Anna Arnold Hedgeman born Anna Arnold, sunrise 7/5/99 Marshalltown, Iowa, sunset 1/17/90, Harlem, New York. an organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom personally recruited 40,000 of the 250,000 participants. she was a co-founder of NOW.
Read more "Anna Arnold Hedgeman"Diane Judith Nash born 5/15/38 Chicago, Illinois. From February to May 1960 while enrolled in college, she led 22 sit ins at lunch counters in Nashville. She was a co-founder of SNick
Read more "Diane Nash"Eleanora Fagan sunrise 4/7/15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sunset 7/17/59, New York, New York. AKA Lady Day and Holiday was her father’s last name, she got Billie from Billie Dove, an actress she admired. She dropped out of school at 11 and worked in her mother’s restaurant. When she was 12 she worked in a brothel running […]
Read more "Billie Holiday"Missy Elliott was mentioned recently in two articles: 25 Songs that Tell Us Where Music is Going and Hospital recommends Beyonce and ABBA for CPR training. Melissa Arnette Elliott born 7/1/71 in Portsmith, Virginia. She was an only child. She was also known as Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott. She collaborated with Timbaland. She was in Sista […]
Read more "Missy Elliott"Yes, perhaps her sister is more famous. I have seen her in concert and read 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music is Going and F.U.B.U./Solange were on the list. Born Solange Piaget Knowles 6/24/86 in Houston, Texas. She has been married twice and has one kids. Beyonce is her older sister. She was in […]
Read more "Solange Knowles"Born Shirley Ann Caesar 10/13/38 in Durham, North Carolina. Started recording when she was 12. Began her professional career in 1957 with Albertina Walker and The Caravans. She graduated from college in 1984 and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta. She recorded Hold My Mule 29 years ago. She has 11 Grammys. She released […]
Read more "Pastor Shirley Caesar"Fannie Lou Townsend sunrise 10/6/17, Montgomery County, Mississippi. Sunset 3/14/77 Mound Bayou, Mississippi She was the youngest of 20 kids. She started to pick cotton at age six. She worked on a plantation. She coined the term Mississippi appendectomy for the involuntary sterilization of black women including herself to reduce the population. She ran unsuccessfully […]
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