FROM THE FOUNDER Dr. Vanessa Williams-Cook Welcome to our Spring Edition of Rebirth of the Total Woman Magazine...BLACK BY DESIGN. It is vitally important that as we move from Transition to Transformation that we develop new patterns and new paradigms that will enable us to maintain our new life. This includes everything from a new mindset, to new environments, new relationships, and even new locations in some cases. We here at Rebirth of the Total Woman Magazine and Nana’s Girls’ Foundation endeavor to be a resource to aid you in that change, in that growth, in that shift that is necessary for you NEW NEXT!! The women in this Winter 2019 Edition have come together to speak to the heart, minds, spirits and souls of every woman on the brink of that change. This edition was inspired as I was scrolling through my Facebook news feed ne day. I saw a post of a NFL player with his Caucasian wife. Basically the post said something reference to a group of NFL player that celebrate light skinned babies over dark skinned babies. Now that may not seem like much to some. And I’m not particularly dark toned myself. However, the post as I continued to read basically said that these men don’t like black babies although they themselves are black. To add to this there are so many ads on social media, TV, and across the internet promoting blackness but putting the fair skinned, light skinned sisters on display. To God Be the Glory for the celebration of blackness. But what about the dark skinned sisters, very dark skinned beautiful sisters with long locks that ae being told that they need to brighten their skin? Or the little very black girls made to feel inferior to their bright skinned sisters because they are dark. Now this is not new to s as a
people. Division has always been a major factor in our treatment of one another and our treatment of self. Now if this sounds too pro-black to you, you may want to pick up a copy of a different magazine. But this edition dares to defy the racially acceptable version of black beauty. We celebrate all of our sisters from the light bright to the purple, from the sable to the mocha. As it was in the Garden of Even hen God presented Eve to Adam ...He declared t Very Good!! And so e at Rebirth of the Total Woman Magazine and the Movement. As the Lord our God is shifting us from Glory to Glory, we must shift in our thinking and ways of doing things. There is greater in store for you. And as you embrace your NEW NEXT, we urge you to embrace it with freedom, and with joy. I speak prophetically to you today, that as you read through the pages of this edition expect to never be the same again. Expect Rebirth. Rebirth in your personal, professional, family, financial, spiritual, emotional, private and public lives. For you are more than a Phenomenal Woman, you are a Proverbs 31 Woman. You are a Daughter of Zion; with that comes a great inheritance but also a great responsibility. That responsibility is to train up our daughters to recognize the greatness within them, to recognize the beauty within them, and to evolve into the Queen they were created by God to become, and with all the benefits of Queendom. Daughter, TODAY BE MADE WHOLE!!! Embrace your REBIRTH as you encounter these pages. Join us inside the Winter Edition of Rebirth of the Total Woman Magazine.
Dr. Vanessa Williams-Cook Editor-In-Chief & Founder 5
