Strong Black Women

15/03/2024

Dr. Vickie McBride and Dr. Maurice McBride made history by earning their PhDs on the same day in Georgia. A proud moment for this mother-son duo! 🎓👩‍👦

01/02/2024

ALL WHITE AND / OR LIGHT SKIN……

10 Famous Women Whose Beauty Is Almost Perfect According to Science !!

Surprised with first place 😱
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19/01/2024

Breaking barriers and making history! 🎾 The Australian Open 2024 welcomes a record-breaking number of players with African heritage, celebrating diversity and talent on the global stage!

Some of the players are pictured.
Back row, left to right: Taylor Townsend, Felix Auger Aliassime, Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton, Christopher Eubanks.

Front row, left to right: Asia Muhammad, Sloan Stephens, Frances Tiafoe, Naomi Osaka, Alycia Parks, Madison Keys and Gaël Monfils.

Omissions from the picture include: Arthur Fils, Ons Jabeur and Jasmine Paolini.

Alycia Parks will face Coco Gauff in the third round tomorrow Friday 19 Jan 2024 at approximately 2pm AEDT.

30/10/2023

18/09/2023

is making history this year as the first Black woman in the festival’s 80-year existence to have a film compete for the Golden Lion. Her film “Origin,” starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Jon Bernthal, received a nine-minute standing ovation.

“For Black filmmakers, we’re told that people who love films in other parts of the world don’t care about our stories and don’t care about our films,” Ava shared. “This is something that we are often told — ‘You cannot play international film festivals, no one will come, people will not come to your press conference, people will not come to the P&I screenings, they will not be interested in selling tickets, you may not even get into this festival, so don’t apply.’ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told not to apply to Venice, you won’t get in. It won’t happen. And this year, it happened.”

DuVernay previously made history as the first Black woman to direct a film nominated for the Academy Award for best picture with Selma. Here’s to continuing to break those glass ceilings 👏

10/09/2023

Melanated US OPEN!!!

In good 🇺🇸 company

08/07/2023

in 1957, Althea Gibson became the first African American to win the women’s singles title at Wimbledon and became the top female tennis player in the world. Just six years earlier, she had become the first black player to compete at Wimbledon.

Born in South Carolina, she grew up in Harlem, where she loved table tennis. A local musician invited her to play tennis, and she became so talented that a year later, she won a local tournament sponsored by the American Tennis Association (formed by African Americans), later winning 12 ATA titles in just 13 years.

Despite her talent, much of the tennis world remained closed off to her. The breakthrough came in 1950 when tennis legend Alice Marble lambasted the sport for barring Gibson from the world’s best tournaments. The tennis world opened its doors, and Gibson became a Top 10 player in the U.S.

In 1956, she won the French Open. After winning both the women’s singles and doubles at Wimbledon in 1957, she was welcomed with a ticker tape parade in New York City. She went on to win 56 singles and doubles championships before turning pro in 1959.

Although she declared that she never considered herself a crusader, there is no question that she opened the doors for many others. She even tried golf, becoming the first black woman to compete on the pro tour.

After she retired, she was inducted in 1971 into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She died in 2003 at the age of 77. In 2013, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor. Venus Williams said Gibson has been an inspiration to her and her sister, Serena.
https://mississippitoday.org/2023/07/06/on-this-day-in-1957-althea-gibson-wins-wimbleton-women-singles-title/

04/06/2023

14/05/2023

Can’t make this stuff up:

“Born DEAD at just 23-weeks gestation, Derick Hall's mom had to fight for his life. Now, 22 years later, the 6'3, 250-pound outside linebacker was just drafted into the NFL by the Seattle Seahawks.

Derick Hall says he owes his success to his mother’s advocacy for his life as a barely viable preemie baby in 2001.

“The doctors wanted me to just let nature take its course. We decided we wanted to fight for him," says his mother, Stacy Gooden-Crandle.

Derick had little chance of surviving after birth, with bleeding in his brain and many other issues. He was tiny enough to be held in the palm of his mom's hand for five months.

“My mom is my queen,” Derick said. “She is everything to me, how hard she worked raising two kids by herself at first, working two or three jobs. She's my Superhero. She's my Wonder Woman. She's the person who kept me living."”

Glory to God 🙌

22/04/2023

Resilience!!!!

Clara Belle Drisdale Williams [1885-1993] was the valedictorian of the graduating class of Prairie New Normal and Independent College, now (Prairie View A & M University) in 1908.

She enrolled at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the fall of 1928, after taking some courses at the University of Chicago. While she worked as a teacher at Booker T. Washington School in Las Cruces, she also took college courses during the summer.

Many of her professors would not allow her inside the classroom, she had to take notes from the hallway; she was also not allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma.

She married Jasper Williams in 1917; their three sons became physicians. She became a great teacher of black students by day, and by night she taught their parents, former slaves, home economics.

In 1961, New Mexico State University named a street on its campus after Williams; in 2005 the building of the English department was renamed Clara Belle Williams Hall.

In 1980 Williams was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree by NMSU, which also apologized for the treatment she was subjected to as a student. She died at 108 years old.

18/04/2023

Can we please take a moment and appreciate the fact that a FEMALE agent just secured the biggest deal in NFL history?

Nicole Lynn helped Jalen Hurts become the highest paid player in NFL history.

BOTH have been underdogs their entire career.
BOTH have been questioned time and time again.
BOTH have been doubted day in and day out.
BOTH have had to prove themselves over and over again.

And yet, BOTH just made history and proved the haters wrong.

Congrats, Nicole and Jalen!

12/04/2023

They Don’t Make Mamas Like This No More😳✊🏾👑

29/03/2023

The St. Mary’s Academy students say they’re showing a new way to look at a two-thousand-year-old formula.

16/02/2023

That’s what it’s all about!!!!!

Dorothy Lavinia Brown was born in Philadelphia, in January of 1919 to an u***d mother who moved to Troy (NY), and then placed her in an orphanage when she was just five-months-old. In 1925, Brown's estranged mother reclaimed her, only to see her run away from home on five separate occasions.

At age 15 (the last time Brown ran away from her mother), she enrolled herself in high school. Recognizing that she had no place to stay, the school's principal arranged for Brown to live with foster parents who became a very positive influence in her life.

Brown went on to graduate at the top of her high school class at the age of 18, and then enrolled at Bennett College in Greensboro (NC), where she graduated number two in her class in 1941. Pretty remarkable so far, right? Well, hold onto your seats to see what she did next.

Following college, Brown returned to Upstate New York where she worked as an inspector at the Rochester Army Ordnance Dept. for two years before returning to school to study medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.

After graduating from medical school in 1948, Brown became the first African-American female to be appointed to a general surgery residency in the racially segregated South.

Fast-forward to 1957 and Brown was named Chief Surgeon at Riverside Hospital in Nashville, and in 1966, became the first African-American female to be elected to the Tennessee State Legislature.

Along the way, she also became the became the first unmarried woman in Tennessee authorized to be an adoptive parent.

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08/02/2023

inspirational Genius, Hall of Fame

07/02/2023

Thanks for honoring Black History month Kendra Lewis McBride🙏

06/02/2023

Eagles coach Autumn Lockwood is set to make Super Bowl history. 🙌

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06/02/2023

Imagine being 9 years old and already holding a high school diploma.

22/01/2023

In 2019, while representing his country at the 2019 African Cup of Nations in Egypt, Senegalese football player Krepin Diatta was subjected to online trolls and racist abuses for his looks. He was mocked for “being ugly”.

In response to the massive attacks online, Diatta wrote this very touching piece:

“I am very sad to see some African brothers making fun of me. I work for our beautiful and dear African continent, and what I receive in return are only insults, and mockery from my brothers.

This is too bad of you and racism comes from there. I need your encouragement and not your insults.

Thank you to everyone who supports me. Only God makes my strength and I am proud of my physical person. Your mockery won’t change anything in my life. But one thing is for sure, we are all African.

This took me back to my younger years, growing up in my village. I was used to being called all sorts of names – mnyamane, lefifi, da**ie, mantsho. At the time it hurt to be called these names, but one tended to outgrow it.

However, it ingrained in me the thought that being dark is a crime in this world. Why are we, people of darker complexion, always at the receiving end of abusive behaviour by our fellow human beings?

What hurt most about this was that I did not choose to be dark and it was something I could not change and had no control over. It’s like when you are a student and you lose a girlfriend to a working person! You are hapless and helpless.

I was born this way; there is nothing I can do about my colour. I was once stopped by police officers (some darker than me) on the streets of Joburg who demanded my identity documents asked me things in Sesotho or Setswana, just to check if I wasn’t a foreigner.

But me being me, I would tell them where to get off. I find this behaviour amateurish and discriminatory, particularly from fellow Africans. This is black-on-black racism, period.

At the end of the day beauty is not about physical appearance or your face, but your inner self.

Our real beauty lies within us and not in our appearance. Why do we like this “pull him/her down” syndrome as Africans? The majority of our people have perfected the art of pulling each other down.

Instead of celebrating each other’s success, many of us hurl names at those climbing the ladder of life. Why can we not we celebrate and accept each other as we are rather than go the insults route?

At first I thought this was apartheid mentality. Clearly not. If people in other parts of the continent, who have never experienced apartheid, could behave this way, then the issue is more than what I had assumed it to be.

This is one of the reasons we are not progressing faster as a continent, as we are preoccupied with pettiness. Let us change the way we think and treat each other as Africans – together, we can do it."

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19/01/2023

THE FACE OF SARAH BAARTMAN

The story of Sarah Baartman of South Africa who had an unusual long backside.

Sarah Baartman, also known as Saartjie Baartman, was a Khosa woman who was born in South Africa in the late 1789. She is famous for being exhibited as a freak show attraction in Europe in the early 18th century because of her large buttocks, which were considered unusual and exotic at the time.

Baartman was born in the Gamtoos Valley, in what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. She was a member of the Khoikhoi, a group of indigenous people who lived in the region. As a young woman, Baartman was taken from her home by a British ship's doctor, William Dunlop, who promised her work as a servant in Cape Town. However, instead of being employed as a servant, Baartman was taken to England and exhibited as a sideshow attraction under the name "Hottentot Venus."

Baartman's large buttocks and elongated l***a were considered unusual and exotic, and she was put on display in London and Paris, where people paid to gawk at her. She was also made to perform various tricks, such as dancing and singing, for the entertainment of spectators. Baartman was treated poorly during this time and was not paid for her performances.

Baartman died of siphilys in 1815 at the age of 26. She was sexually assaulted multiple times and her captors paid in exchange to experience ssehura also know by stage name The Hottentot venus , and her remains were dissected and put on display in a museum in Paris. In 2002, the South African government successfully campaigned for the return of Baartman's remains to South Africa, and she was finally laid to rest in 2002.

Baartman's story is a tragic one and serves as a reminder of the exploitation and mistreatment of people of color throughout history may she rest in eternal peace...

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