Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance aka “New Negro Movement” cultural and arts movement in the 1920s and 1930s. Photo by James Van Dee Zee one of the artists of that period.

Two things

“There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control—your mind and your mouth “ —Molefi Asante born 1942

Viola Fletcher

Viola Fletcher (née Ford; born 1914), also known as Mother Fletcher, is the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre and a supercentenarian.

Portia Simpson Miller

Portia Simpson Miller born in 1945 was the first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica and ruled from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. Also know as “Sista P” and “Mama P”

Steven Henson

Steven Henson (1918–2007) invented Ranch dressing in the 1950s

Five things I do for fun

Read, laugh, listen to music, hang with my granddaughter, and write.

My first name meaning, significance, etymology

Akilah, feminine name, Arabic means “intelligent” or “wise”. That’s my government first name. I changed it from my birth name of Elizabeth. I picked it from a book of African names more than 30 years ago.

Lena Baker

Lena Baker was first and only woman executed in Georgia in the electric chair on 3/5/1945. She maintained her innocence. Her last words were: “God has forgiven me . . . I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience.” She was pardoned in 2005.

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams, 1910-1981, (the First Lady of Jazz keyboard and one of the most successful jazz women musicians, appeared on Sesame Street in 1975, performed for President Carter, and one of three women in the iconic photo “A Great Day in Harlem” in 1958.

Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee born in 1946 is the first Black woman to represent Northern California in the state Legislature.

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