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05/19/2024

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03/31/2024

Finally we RElaxing, REfreshing, REleasing!!

It’s RE-up time!!

02/21/2024

History moment:

The more you know!

"Betty Boop: A complex history hidden in black and white. Stolen from Cotton Club singer Esther Jones, known as 'Baby Esther,' who never regained the rights to the character inspired by her."

02/12/2024

Remembering Family:

ELVIRA F ELLIS JACKSON

1857-1925

Author of the following: Regina Mildred Jackson, granddaughter of Elvira Ellis edited A. Stewart: Grandmother was a Devout Christian, church advisor, bible reader -- daily. Often during the night when she awakened -- she read her Bible which she kept at her bedside. Community Counselor -- The community solved problems as `Miss Elvira` thought it best to solve them. An unofficial `Lawmaker` of the community.

One of the first Negro Educators of South Mississippi, she was loved, respected, and honored by the entire Poplar Hill Community (the first African American women to receive certification in Southwestern Mississippi).

Her devotion to the Community matched that which had been extended to her. She did all that was in her power to assure the success of community activities. One small example which stands out in my memory was her annual dinner which served large numbers of students from Alcorn College and other visitors who had come for the church revival. She felt that such guests must not have to return home and to have to eat food on the church grounds. That would not speak well for the hospitality of the community. Therefore, the feast was prepared and enjoyed by dozens.

Her home was a place of beauty by standards of the early 1900`s. Beautiful bedspreads with matching eyelet ruffled pillow covers and bolster covers made a youngster feel that she was witnessing true riches. One stood in awe and observed the dignity and regal attire of Grandfather Fielding and others who seemed ready to speak noble greetings to you.

Grandmother`s and Aunt Henrietta`s wardrobes consisted of the fashions of their day. There were the tucks, laces, ruffles, eyelets, and full skirts always becoming to each of them. Ruffles for petticoats were often 18 to 24 inches deep eyelet. These helped make the skirt or dress perfect. Ribbons and jewelry helped complete the ladies` fashions. I have searched Webster`s New Collegiate Dictionary trying to select the right word to do justice to Grandmothers character. I tried modest, chaste, and others. Finally, I decided that `Impeccable` best explains the wonderful character that I thought she exemplified. One example might give you an idea of what I`m trying to tell you. She went into the market one day and asked the price of a certain piece of meat. An old guy hanging around told her not to worry about the price. `If Jack (my father) doesn`t pay for it I will. ` She went home and cried herself sick over such an insult. When Uncle Horace came to town later in the week and told Dad, he went over and asked the guy to apologize. He refused. Dad attacked him causing a racial flair-up that resulted in our being rushed to a distant neighbor’s home for the night and Dad spending the night in a huge tree armed. The mob did not come as planned and community leaders calmed things down. Well, I repeat as I knew her, she made 100 on integrity.

Elvira Ellis Jackson was born in Jefferson County, MS in 1857. She met and married Fielding Walden Jackson, Sr in March 1877. This union was blessed with 7 children all with outstanding resumes. She founded and taught at Poplar Hill School from about 1875 until 1924 a year before her death. Always willing to be of service in her home, her church, the school, and the local community. She made her transition on 5 Sep 1925. To her grandchildren that numbered 35 she was and even to this day she continues to be known as “Grandma El”.

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02/10/2024

02/07/2024

In Memory: Clara Smith (March 13 1894-February 1935) American classic female blues singer billed as "Queen of Moaners" although she had a lighter-sweeter voice than many of her contemporaries.

She cut 122 sides all with Columbia Records with her record sales being topped only by Bessie Smith. During her time performing she met Josephine Baker and chose to mentor her.

She is accredited for giving Josephine her start in the recording business. Smith and Baker are thought to have romantic relationship notably being referred to as "Lady Lovers". Died of heart disease, age 40.

01/10/2024

2024 intentions:(fill in the blank)

In 2024

I will focus on….
I will stop focusing on…
I will experience….
I will travel to…..
I will learn to…..
I will……

What will you manifest?

01/07/2024

Goddess Moment:

Melody Millicent Danquah (b. 1/6/1937 - d. 3/18/2016) was a Ghanaian pilot and the first female pilot in Africa.

01/07/2024

In the early 20th century, Sarah Rector was given 160 acres of land as part of a government treaty.

11-year-old Rector became incredibly wealthy when oil was discovered under her land.

Rector's newfound wealth made her the target of marriage proposals and suspected schemes.

When Sarah Rector was given 160 acres of land, she and her family assumed it had little value. The soil was barren and the land was considered undesirable. But they did not know the great source of wealth hidden underneath it.

Rector's parents were Black descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and were entitled to land allotments under an 1866 treaty that abolished slavery within tribal lands.

As part of the treaty, hundreds of Black children of Freedmen were each granted parcels of land. But the land given to them was typically inferior — rocky and unsuitable for farming.

Rector's father didn't think the $30 annual property tax on his daughter's land was worth paying, and, according to Bolden, sought to sell what he didn't realize held a secret source of unbelievable wealth for his family.

Striking oil
Luckily for the Rectors, the petition to sell the land was denied. To help cover the expenses, Rector's father leased Sarah's parcel of land to the Standard Oil Company in 1911.

In 1914, a headline in the Washington Post read, "Oil made pickaninny rich" and inaccurately described Rector as "an orphan, crude, Black, and uneducated, yet worth more than $4,000,000."


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12/29/2023

A pioneer in the world of African American music education, Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia on February 18, 1868 to Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and Maria Ann (Alexander) Gibbs. In 1869 her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshall began her study of music at the age of nine and continued the pursuit at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied piano, pipe organ, and voice culture. Graduating in 1889, she was the first African American to complete the program and earn a Mus.B. degree, which at the time was Oberlin’s equivalent of a Bachelor of Music degree.

Marshall trained in Europe after graduating and in 1890 returned to the United States to found a music conservatory at the Eckstein-Norton University, an industrial school in Cane Springs, Kentucky. At the beginning of the 20th century, Marshall held the position of supervisor for the District of Columbia’s African American public schools, Divisions X-XIII, and served as the divisions’ director of music.

To provide African American students with advanced musical training within the conservatory structure, she founded the Washington Conservatory of Music in 1903. It was later renamed the Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression when the school expanded to include drama and speech. In establishing a school exclusively operated by African American musicians for the advancement of African American education, Marshall realized a lifelong goal.

Harriet Gibbs married Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall, a Massachusetts lawyer, in 1906. Together they promoted her conservatory, but his career would eventually draw her away from her work in music education for years at a time. In 1922 she accompanied her husband to Haiti, where he was sent by President Warren G. Harding to be a part of the U.S. legation. They lived there for six years, during which time she founded the Jean Joseph Industrial School in Port-au-Prince and worked extensively with Haitian social welfare charities.

After Napoleon Marshall died in 1933, Harriet Marshall refocused her attention on the Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression. In 1937, as an expansion to the conservatory, she founded the National Negro Music Center as a resource to both promote creative work and to preserve traditional African American music. Marshall’s conservatory was a landmark in the history of black education. The Center sponsored regular concerts for the black community, trained many prominent musical professionals and attracted the nation’s most talented musicians as teachers. It remained in operation until 1960.

Harriett Gibbs Marshall died on February 25, 1941 in Burrell’s Private Hospital in Washington, D.C. She was seventy-three years old.

12/26/2023

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner, Jones ( Sissieretta Jones) was a world famous soprano. In 1892 she became the first African American to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Jones faced many challenges. She never received the respect as an artist. It was sad to read what she endured during that time. Read below an excerpt from an article written about Sissieretta.
“Sissieretta Jones struggled as an artist, fighting daily for dignity and artistic survival in a world that viewed her as, at best, a freakish imitation of a white ideal. Refusing to see her only as the gifted singer she was, the public lauded her with left-handed praise: the “dusky diva,” the “chocolate-hued” songstress, the “Black Patti.” Critics acknowledged her beauty, but never without qualifications: “The Black Patti is of pure Negro blood,” said one reporter, “nevertheless [emphasis added], she is of very pleasing appearance.” The comparisons with Patti were ludicrous; there was no comparing the two. Patti was the idol of millions, demanded at least $4,000 nightly, and retired to her opulent Welsh castle, complete with private theater. Jones rarely earned more than $300 for one appearance and retired, largely forgotten, to a life of poverty.”

11/30/2023

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11/26/2023

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05/15/2023

Know your worth!!

05/13/2023

“Walk in your REBIRTH”

05/03/2023

“You don’t have to accept anyone’s behavior that’s DISRESPECTFUL to You!”

05/01/2023

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04/12/2023

04/10/2023

You belong where you are called; and you are called to where you respond. Geography doesn’t decide your success, but the fruit you produce does. Bloom where you are PLANTED!

03/15/2023

Grand Afternoon. We know we’re DOPE… what do you know about yourself?

02/08/2023

Move out your own way!!