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Celebrating Women’s History Month In this issue we are celebrating Women’s History Month. For too long, the contributions of Women has been neglected in the annals of History. It has become necessary to rewrite Women back into History.We take a look at some of the legacies of Women who made and continue to make history.
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Woman suffrage in Washington, 1916–1918 National Archives “Woman Suffrage Collection” on Historypin 10 AFRICA USA TODAY
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Women Protesters in Washington, D.C. against President Wilson’s position on Women’s Suffrage
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Women’s History Month Celebration in Washington, D.C.
Molly Murphy MacGregor & A’ Lelia Bundles Madame C.J. Walker’s great, great grand daughter, author
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Our tour guide, & lecturer, Lorraine Dieterle is a decorated WWII veteran who completed boot camp in Florida and was stationed in New York, N.Y., She is aprofessional photographer & has trained Coast Guard men in aerial, combat photography, motion and still photography. She is standing next to her profile as part of an museum exhibit.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressing audience at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Hillary Clinton, guest speaker
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Women in Power
Forbes 2021: Okonjo-Iweala, Samia Suluhu, and Mo Abudu are the three most powerful women in Africa VICTOR OLUWOLE
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Forbes 2021: Okonjo-Iweala, Samia Suluhu, and Mo Abudu are the three most powerful women in Africa
On December 7, Forbes announced its 18th annual ranking of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. This year’s list featured only three African women; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and Mo Abudu. Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, tops this year’s ranking, replacing former German chancellor Angela Merkel. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the highest-ranking female politician in the United States of America’s history, took the #2 spot. AFRICA USA TODAY 25
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Book Club Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection by Smithsonian Institution Price: $40.00 An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Featured objects range from fine art to computer code, from First Ladies memorabilia to Black Lives Matter placards, and from Hopi pottery to a couch from the Oprah Winfrey show. There are familiar objects--such as the suffrage wagon used to advocate passage of the 19th Amendment and the Pussy Hat from the 2016 Women's March in DC--as well as lesser known pieces revealing untold stories. Portraits, photographs, paintings, political materials, signs, musical instruments, sports equipment, clothes, letters, ads, personal posessions, and other objects reveal the incredible stories of such amazing women as Phillis Wheatley, Julia Child, Sojourner Truth, Mary Cassat, Madame CJ Walker, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Till Mobley, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta, Phyllis Diller, Celia Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billie Jean King, Silvia Rivera, and so many more. Together with illuminating text, these objects elevate the importance of American women in the home, workplace, government, and beyond. Published to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, Smithsonian American Women is a deeply satisfying read and a must-have reflection on how generations of women have defined what it means to be recognized in both the nation and the world. ISBN 10: 158834665X ISBN 13: 9781588346650
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Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy Sherald Ongoing
NOTE: The museum’s official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama will be off view beginning in May, 2021. Amy Sherald's portrait of Mrs Obama has inspired an unprecedented response from the public, and will be featured in The The Obama Portraits Tour, organized by the National Portrait Gallery. The tour will travel to seven cities across the U.S. from June 2021 through October 2022 and is expected to reach millions of people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to view this remarkable painting. The painting will return to view in Washington, D.C., with celebrations at the Portrait Gallery in early November. .
Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy Sherald Ongoing
NOTE: The museum’s official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama will be off view beginning in May, 2021. Amy Sherald's portrait of Mrs Obama has inspired an unprecedented response from the public, and will be featured in The The Obama Portraits Tour, organized by the National Portrait Gallery. The tour will travel to seven cities across the U.S. from June 2021 through October 2022 and is expected to reach millions of people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to view this remarkable painting. The painting will return to view in Washington, D.C., with celebrations at the Portrait Gallery in early November. 32 AFRICA USA TODAY .
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African Women Who’ve Made History by Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog
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Kara Cooney This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra-women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today. Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra controlled the totalitarian state as power-brokers and rulers. But throughout human history, women in positions of power were more often used as political pawns in a male-dominated society. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example? Celebrated Egyptologist Kara Cooney delivers a fascinating tale of female power, exploring the reasons why it has seldom been allowed through the ages, and why we should care. AFRICA USA TODAY 39
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Madam C. J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana in 1867 to parents who had been enslaved before the Civil War. Orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty, she spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington and Mary McLeod Bethune. On Her Own Ground is not only the first comprehensive biography of one of recent history’s most amazing entrepreneurs and philanthropists, it is about a woman who is truly an African American icon. Drawn from more than two decades of exhaustive research, the book is enriched by the author’s exclusive access to personal letters, records and never-before-seen photographs from the family collection. Bundles also showcases Walker’s complex relationship with her daughter, A’Lelia Walker, a celebrated hostess of the Harlem Renaissance and renowned friend to both Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. In chapters such as “Freedom Baby,” “Motherless Child,” “Bold Moves” and “Black Metropolis,” Bundles traces her ancestor’s improbable rise to the top of an international hair care empire that would be run by four generations of Walker women and exists today as MCJW Beauty Culture, a division of Sundial Brands. Along the way, On Her Own Ground reveals surprising insights, tells fascinating stories and dispels many misconceptions. 48 AFRICA USA TODAY
Book & Film Club About A’Lelia A’Lelia Bundles is an engaging public speaker and skilled MC, who brings warmth, intelligence, humor and a strong grasp of current events and history to her presentations.
Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker – a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother – that is the inspiration for Self Made, the fictional four-part Netflix series starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer that premiered in March 2020. She is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biography of her great-grandmother, whose parties, arts patronage and international travels helped define that era. A’Lelia is brand historian for MADAM by Madam C. J. Walker, a line of hair care products developed in partnership with Sundial Brands and Walmart. In February 2022 she was named the inaugural Center for Africana Studies and Culture Prestigious Fellow in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. She is the founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives, the largest private collection of Walker photographs and memorabilia. She is a vice chair emerita of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees and chair emerita of the board of the National Archives Foundation. She is a member of several boards that reflect her interest in history, journalism, political activism, social justice and historic preservation including the March on Washington Film Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana Landmarks, Columbia Global Reports and the Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative. A’Lelia was a network television news executive and producer for thirty years at NBC News and then at ABC News, where she was Washington, DC deputy bureau chief and director of talent development. Her articles and essays have been published in the New York Times Book Review, Variety, TheUndefeated.com, Al Jazeera, Parade, Ms., O Magazine, Essence, several encyclopedias and books, and on her blog at www.aleliabundles.com. As a speaker and emcee, she has appeared at universities, corporations and book festivals, as well as on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, PBS and BBC. She has served as an advisor for numerous documentaries, museum exhibits, biographies, scholarly papers and history texts.
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