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1. Beyonce Knowles-Carter
Kickass entertainer, self-made brazilianaire, good progressive, feminist, gives oodles to charity, and first-class lemonade maker.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)I keep reading on DU that she is not perfect. Therefore she is a complete failure.
Is that about right?
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)lapucelle
(18,305 posts)"flawed".
I know what that's code for.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Created the Housing Bill of Rights for California, squeezed out a bigger settlement than offered for victims of illegal foreclosures, and went after robo-signers.
She also makes Jefferson Beauregard Sessions whine in fear, an added bonus.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)OBenario4
(252 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,999 posts)Thank you for posting
OBenario4
(252 posts)"When I die I don't want to be reborn
It is horrible, to put up with humanity
That has a noble appearance
That covers up its terrible qualities
I noted that humanity
Is perverse, is tyrannical
Self-seeking egoists
Who handle things politely
But all is hypocrisy
They are uncultivated, and trickers."
Carolina de Jesus.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)deal with the day to day oppression, and still being strong....
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)But that Beyonce had to go and buy herself a big, expensive house and ruin it all. Oh wait, did Madame Walker have a bigger one named Villa-Lewaro?
http://mrmhadams.typepad.com/blog/2014/09/villa-lewaro-an-all-american-showplace.html
brush
(53,837 posts)Fannie Lou Hamer and Oprah come to mind.
Me.
(35,454 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)...successfully escaped slavery, then subsequently completed 13 successful missions to rescue approximately 70 other slaves.
Beyonce' ain't got shit on Harriet.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)Tubman was a hero, and should have statues in every city.
ADX
(1,622 posts)...it wasn't meant to denigrate your idol.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Calm down, little guy. No idols. No worship.
ADX
(1,622 posts)...maybe you should mind your own fucking business and stop with the lame-ass, internet tough-guy insults, m'kay? Thnx.
OBenario4
(252 posts)Don't say that. You're supposed to worship pop music celebrities like gods.
ADX
(1,622 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Creative, though irrelevant pretense. Bless your little heart.
OBenario4
(252 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)To put it mildly.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I've been a fan from way back.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)... for Henriette DeLille. She was not on my radar. So many wonderful women who should be far more well known.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)She's not afraid to speak out - and whenever I see her on the news, I know I need to stop and pay attention. We need so many more just like her!
still_one
(92,372 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Another heroine of mine.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)She was indeed a badass.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)She must have been an amazing person.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)And someone said she's not a good feminist, so there.
SELF DELETING OP
:lol:
mcar
(42,372 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)Because of her support for black lives matter and other liberal causes. But especially blm.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)Uhura!!!!
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)Mae Jemison, Loretta Lynch, Joycelyn Elders.
It's a long list.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)November 30, 1924 January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author.[1] In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress,[2] and she represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination
pat_k
(9,313 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Condoleeza?
I know her politics don't match ours, but she is without doubt, a successful woman.
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Former head of the LA NAACP, appears often on Bill Moyers show, opposite politics of Condi. Major civil rights figure in LA.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)I am embarrassed by that!
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)she indeed belongs on the list!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I cannot imagine what she probably endured as she moved up in her career.
I'm a woman, and I know what I dealt with, but I'm a WHITE woman.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Maya Angelou
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Such a loss when she left us.
mcar
(42,372 posts)ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Tina Turner.
The best.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)She overcame a lot of adversity in her life and now she has more money than God.
Edit: GMTA
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)Clara Isabel Alegría Vides is a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who is a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She writes under the pseudonym Claribel Alegría.
Alegría was committed to nonviolent resistance. She had a close association with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle and took control of the Nicaraguan government in 1979. Alegría returned to Nicaragua in 1985 to aid in the reconstruction of Nicaragua.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claribel_Alegr%C3%ADa
My apologies if it doesn't meet the qualifications of your op. I am a bit behind on how encompassing some terms are.
Love your op.
❤️
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)samnsara
(17,634 posts)H2O Man
(73,593 posts)Takket
(21,616 posts)Venus Williams
Serena Williams
Audra MacDonald
nocoincidences
(2,228 posts)who spoke so beautifully that someone remarked that God must sound like Barbara Jordan.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)Oh, GOD, I wish she was with us today! She would rip AnusMouthTrump into little bitty bits of foreskin too small to be identified!
pat_k
(9,313 posts)--Barbara Jordan
oasis
(49,401 posts)BrooklynTech
(35 posts)Growing up, my idol was Mickey Mantle.
As an adult, my idol was Barbara Jordan.
I haven't idolized anyone else since.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,881 posts)I won't include her last name, as she's not a public figure, but she's a very successful woman of color.
volstork
(5,403 posts)Shirley Chisholm-- first AA woman elected to Congress.
Barbara Jordan-- first AA Congresswoman from the deep south
VOX
(22,976 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And before her, Barbara Jordan, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Lucy Parsons, and Sojourner Truth.
They all carried on the fight, with courage and vigor...to me, THAT is success.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)Susan Rice.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)So talented and lovely!
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)Anita Hill; history has more than vindicated her.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)for the reasons some have stated but because she treats her employees fair, donates a shitload of money to help black folk and she called out cops for f'n murdering us when a lot of folks (including many of those now appropriating her decency to further their overwhelming desire to bash the left) were calling blue on black genocide just a few bad apples, Beyonce.
mcar
(42,372 posts)I don't understand this.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)sheshe2
(83,860 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)Hekate
(90,774 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)I thought she might have someday been the first woman president.
Hekate
(90,774 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)ecstatic
(32,727 posts)Shonda Lynn Rhimes (born January 13, 1970) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author. She is best known as the creator, head writer, executive producer, and showrunner of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal, all of which have aired on ABC. Rhimes has also served as the executive producer of the ABC television series Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonda_Rhimes
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)Because you probably haven't heard of my internist or the other successful women of color I know: engineers, professors, Boeing managers, authors, attorneys, etc. etc. etc.
My gastroenterologist is saving lives here in my rural community.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)JDC
(10,130 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)God, what a voice.
lostnfound
(16,189 posts)lostnfound
(16,189 posts)cilla4progress
(24,760 posts)local Legal Aid attorney and City Councilwoman. Her mother brought Ruth and her 3 siblings across the border from Mexico as children. They are all making contributions as adult citizens in our little city of Wenatchee, Washington.
Ruth raised her daughter as a single mom while attending law school. Ruth is a friend and mentor!
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)She was a Hillary supporter to Boot
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/17/indra-nooyi-pepsi-ceo-says-non-white-employees-in-/
FM123
(10,054 posts)From orphan to first female African American 3 Star Army General and a graduate of West Point!
[link:http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/nadja-west-badass-women-of-washington/index.html|
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)..
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Gymnast
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)She's smart (a Dartmouth grad), hilarious, and and multi-talented. And, another great progressive.
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)The first African-American millionaire. She led a sad life, however.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)I was going to post her name.
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)Very successful despite all odds.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)Founded and owns Radio One, TV One, Syndication One (the latter merged with Reach Media), & Interactive One, along with a large number of radio stations playing different formats including hip hop/urban contemporary and black talk.
vimeo.com/201210882
One of the nation's wealthiest black, female entrepreneurs shares her secrets to success
by Safon Floyd Posted: February 5, 2017
With a reported net worth of $460 million, Cathy Hughes, the second wealthiest African American woman in the nation, has made a resounding impact on black media having pioneered Radio One, a BE 100s company and one the of the most successful and lucrative black-owned media companies to date.
If youve listened to The Quiet Storm on the radio, watched your favorite shows on TV One, or perused an Interactive One digital outlet, youve experienced Hughes media influence.
A gifted trendsetter, she has thrived for more than 30 years in an ever-changing often directionless industry, yet she still hesitates to be called a success.
Adding to her list of accomplishments, the media mogul was recently honored by Howard University with the renaming of the school of communications to the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.
http://www.blackenterprise.com/career/top-careers/cathy-hughes-entertainment-industry/
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)applegrove
(118,759 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The most influential woman in my lifetime outside of my Mom and Mother Teresa.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Skittles
(153,182 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)My AfAm women friends are all successful, though not rich or famous, just good all-around people.
Different Drummer
(7,641 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)My friend was once a Player's Playmate...
And every woman (at a large non-entertainment company where we worked wanted to be her (white, black, asian, etc.) -- not solely or even primarily for her beauty but because she was smart, capable, always the perfect lady. She was flirtatious in a wholesome but fascinating way without trying but defined perfect decorum and taste at all times. She always spoke her mind (her closest fault was rooting for OJ before facts became obvious) and she was even on the famous "Away Team" - yes that one! And survived (at least in real life)!
bdjhawk
(420 posts)who finally got some of the recognition they deserved.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Nguyễn Thị Bình (born Nguyễn Châu Sa; 26 May 1927) is a Vietnamese communist leader who negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference on behalf of the Viet Cong, or National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam.
Life and workEdit
She was born in 1927 in Saigon and is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh.[1] She studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia and worked as a teacher during the French colonisation of Vietnam. She joined Vietnam's Communist Party in 1948. From 1945 to 1951, she took part in various intellectual movements against the French colonists. Subsequently, she was arrested and jailed between 1951 and 1953 inChí Hòa Prison (Saigon) by the French colonial authority in Vietnam.[2]
During the Vietnam War, she became a member of the Vietcong's Central Committeeand a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese Women's Liberation Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and played a major role in the Paris Peace Accords on Vietnam, an agreement that was supposed to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam, which was signed in Paris and which entered into force 17 January 1973.[3] She was one of those who signed the Paris Peace Accords.
After the Vietnam War, she was appointedMinister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam[3] and from 1982 to 1986 was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party, since 1987 to 1992 was Vice Head of the Central External Relations Department of Party. The National Assembly elected her twice to the position ofVice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 19921997 and 19972002.
Vice President of Vietnam
19922002
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)demigoddess
(6,644 posts)her books will stand for generations. Also Mrs Powell, who taught handicapped children, mine was one.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)ReformedGOPer
(478 posts)Alpeduez21
(1,755 posts)Dawn Staley. Uva point guard, wnba player and coach
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Can't wait to see this:
pat_k
(9,313 posts)First I've heard it was in the works. Wish it were coming sooner!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)How about just one name.. Elayne Jones.
Former timpanist with New York City Opera, American Symphomy Orchestra, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera.
MLAA
(17,318 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Mother of Michelle
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)between her and hubby reminded me of Jackie Robinson who endured hatred and kept calm in public. Strength and class.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)And behind her are other famous Thai American Women
Mrs Grantcart
Ms Grantcart daughter number one
Ms Grantcart daughter number two
All very well known in my neck of the woods.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 and was the lead negotiator in the workers contract that was created after the strike.[1]
Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta in 2016
BornDolores Clara Fernández
April 10, 1930 (age 87)
Dawson, New MexicoNationalityAmericanOccupationLabor leader and activistKnown forco-founder of the National Farmworkers Association withCésar Chávez, Delano grape strike,Sí se puede
Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and women's rights, including theEugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights[2] and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[3] She was inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993, the first Latina inductee.[4][5]
Huerta is the originator of the phrase, "Sí se puede".[6] As a role model to many in theLatino community, Huerta is the subject of many corridos (ballads) and murals.[7]
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Like her music or not, she's got a very successful career.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)RainCaster
(10,912 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)...Edelman was the first African Americanwoman admitted to The Mississippi Bar. She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Mississippi office, working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. She also helped establish a Head Start program.
Edelman moved in 1968 to Washington, D.C., where she continued her work and contributed to the organizing of the Poor People's Campaign of Martin Luther King Jr.and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm, and also became interested in issues related to childhood development and children.
In 1973, she founded the Children's Defense Fund as a voice for poor children, children of color, and children with disabilities. The organization has served as an advocacy and research center for children's issues, documenting the problems and possible solutions to children in need. She also became involved in several school desegregation cases and served on the board of the Child Development Group of Mississippi, which represented one of the largest Head Start programs in the country.[2]
As founder, leader and principal spokesperson for the CDF, Mrs. Edelman worked to persuadeCongress to overhaul foster care, support adoption, improve child care and protect children who are disabled, homeless, abused or neglected. A philosophy of service absorbed during her childhood undergirds all her efforts. As she expresses it, "If you dont like the way the world is, you have an obligation to change it. Just do it one step at a time."
She continues to advocate youth pregnancy prevention, child-care funding, prenatal care, greater parental responsibility in teaching values and curtailing what she sees as childrens exposure to the barrage of violent images transmitted by mass media. Edelman serves on the board of the New York City based Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty.
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yardwork
(61,700 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)yardwork
(61,700 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman
I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me
For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on
My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save
I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents
I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission
I mean . . . I . . . can fly
like a bird in the sky . . .
dsc
(52,166 posts)I have had three women of color principals. I have had two department chairs who were women of color. I have worked with numerous teachers who were and are women of color. I know this isn't exactly what you meant but by my definition these women were successful.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)...She used ancient techniques for making and firing pottery and used designs from "Old Hopi" pottery and sherds found at 15th-century Sikyátki ruins on First Mesa. Her artwork is in collections in the United States and Europe, including many museums like theNational Museum of American Art, Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology atHarvard University.
Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn clan.
(Nampeyo pictured with some of her work, circa 1910)
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)"Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist,newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist,feminist,[1] Georgist,[2] and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.[3]
In the 1890's, Wells documented lynching in the United States. She showed that lynching was often used in the South as a way to control or punish Black people who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by black people, as was usually claimed by whites.[4] She was active inwomen's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Wells was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician and traveled internationally on lecture tours.[5]"
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Her former executive, one of the managers that work for my wife, one of my peers...
There are millions of them.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)...October 1917 5 February 1967) was aChilean composer, songwriter, folklorist,ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the "Chilean New Song", the Nueva canción chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would extend its sphere of influence outside Chile, becoming acknowledged as "The Mother of Latin American folk". In 2011 Andrés Wood directed a biopic about her, titled Violeta Went to Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos)."
Here she performs one of her best known compositions:
https://m.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Response to Ken Burch (Reply #166)
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mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)I'm very proud of my congresswoman! The last election she pretty much ran unopposed, and probably will do so again in 2018.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Soong Ching-Ling (1893-1981)
(Madame Sun Yat-Sen)
Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of January in 1893 to well-educated, Christian parents. Before marrying Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Ching-ling travelled to the United States for her education; she and her three sisters became the first Chinese girls to be educated in the states. At the age of eighteen, Ching-ling began to speak out against the conditions of women in her country in a non-violent manner which expressed her ideals of Liberty and Equality. For the next seven decades, Soong Ching-ling became an active character within both the political and social arenas of Chinese culture. She came to be known as "the Mother of China" by both the main political parties, the Kuomintang and the Communists.
.....The first and foremost Chinese practice that she singled out was the issue of arranged marriages. Through the influences of Western emancipation, Ching-Ling tackled this institution by declaring that the abolition of arranged marriages would further the liberation of both women and men in China.
When she married Sun Yat-sen in 1915 she not only became his wife but a strong political collegue of his. Up until that time women were basically invisible in the eyes of society. Few women would show their faces in public and would rarely accompany their husbands to any social gathering. In a biography of Soong Ching-Ling, Jung Chang writes that Ching-Ling was the first Chinese woman to appear in public with her husband and that she became the first consort of a political leader anywhere in the world to act as "First Lady."
Politically, Ching-Ling was a leading force behind the reorganization of the Kuomintang as well as in the shift away from the western powers towards Russia. Then in 1924 she was made head of the Womens' Department of the Party. She viewed that Chinese Women's Liberation was an inseparable part of the Chinese revolution-her views therefore set the tone for the radical line on the question of women in China.
Early in her career she divided her time between working in the government and working on the affairs of women. One of her major achievements during this time was the founding of the Women's Political Training School in 1927 - here she gave numerous talks on the importance of women joining the revolution as well as on the liberation of women in China. In the 1950s and 1960s she was very active in the official women's movement. Her ideals, along with the creation of the All-China Women's Federation in 1949 helped to shape the policies of China pertaining to women.
Source:
Jung Chang, Mme. Sun Yat-sen. Penguin Books, 1986.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)Elizabeth Marie "Betty" Tall Chief (Osagefamily name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa;[2] January 24, 1925 April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina,[3] and was the firstNative American to hold the rank.[1]
...age 17, she moved to New York City in search of a spot with a major ballet company, and, at the urging of her superiors, took the name Maria Tallchief. She spent the next five years with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where she met legendary choreographer George Balanchine. When Balanchine co-founded what would become the New York City Ballet in 1946, Tallchief became the company's first star.[4]
The combination of Balanchine's difficult choreography and Tallchief's passionate dancing revolutionized the ballet. Her 1949 role in The Firebird catapulted Tallchief to the top of the ballet world, establishing her as a prima ballerina. Her role as the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker transformed the ballet from obscure to America's most popular. She traveled the world, becoming the first American to perform in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. She made regular appearances on American TV before she retired in 1966. After retiring from dance, Tallchief was active in promoting ballet in Chicago. She served as director of ballet for the Lyric Opera of Chicago for most of the 1970s, and debuted the Chicago City Ballet in 1981.[4]
Tallchief was honored by the people of Oklahoma with multiple statues and an honorific day. She was inducted in theNational Women's Hall of Fame and received a National Medal of Arts. In 1996, Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievements. Her life has been the subject of multiple documentaries and biographies."
TexasBushwhacker
(20,210 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)DBoon
(22,395 posts)Look at her academic history - she is one of the smartest women around
GusBob
(7,286 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Rudolph is a true survivor and American sporting hero. Despite having suffered from polio and a range of other life-threatening sicknesses, she became a triple Olympic gold medal winner in track and field.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/hellobeautiful.com/1704045/30-black-female-leaders-you-should-know-about-2/amp/
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)"American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She achieved national recognition at the age of 21 while still an undergraduate at Yale University when her design was chosen in a national competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.[1] It is considered one of the most influential memorials of the post-World War II period. Lin has completed designs for other memorials, as well as for numerous public and private buildings, landscape design, and sculpture. Although Lins most well known sculptures and architectural work are historical memorials, she also works to memorialize nature through her environmentally themed works. In creating works which deal with the depleting environment, Lin aims to raise awareness for the environment for audiences in urban spaces."
Golden Raisin
(4,612 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Zoonart
(11,876 posts)She was not famous but she was a very dear friend of mine.
Her show biz name was Kay Du Conge, but she was born Bernice Williams. She made a name for herself in Burlesque in Montreal, where her skin color was not an issue. In the early 50's she moved to Chicago where she broke the color line at Minsky's and was billed as The Cajun Queen. She was featured in one of the first issues of Ebony magazine
She was one strong black woman.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)!!!!!!!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)bell hooks intentionally uses lower case for first letter of her names.
Tortue
(32 posts)My first teenage crush...
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Hekate
(90,774 posts)calimary
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Holy Cannoli did my dad love her voice. He always let you know "THAT is how it's done" whenever he'd play a record or tape of hers.
This whole list is wonderful! I just wanted to make sure these four beautiful roses were included in the bouquet.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Marian Anderson - opera
Maya Angelou - writer
Simone Askew - 1st Female black woman to lead West Point Corp of Cadets
Shondra Rhimes - television
Ella Fitzgerald - singer
Rita Moreno - actress - Oscar, Emmy and Tony
Katherine Johnson - NASA Mathematician
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Oprah Winfrey, Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, Alicia Keys, Lynn Whitfield, Cicely Tyson
RandySF
(59,158 posts)DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)Ballers: Cheryl Miller, Swin Cash Canal, Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoopes
Local Media: Monica Kaufman (WSBchannel2actionnews), Brenda Wood (WXIA11alive), Sonja Gantt {daughter of Harvey Gantt, Charlotte's 1st AA Mayor} (NBC Charlotte), Cynthia Tucker (UGA, ex AJC) #WDE
National Media: Fredricka Whitfield (CNN), Sara Sidner (CNN), Carole Simpson (ABC), Julianne Malveaux (PBS), Suzanne Malveaux (CNN), Robin Roberts (ABC)
Entertainers: Jill Scott, Janelle Monae, Yolanda Adams, Octavia Spencer #WDE
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)In her own words:
.. well. like I say, we lived in an integrated neighborhood and I had all of these playmates of different nationalities. And so when I found out that day that I might be able to go to their school, I was just thrilled, you know. And I remember walking over to Sumner school with my dad that day and going up the steps of the school and the school looked so big to a smaller child. And I remember going inside and my dad spoke with someone and then he went into the inner office with the principal and they left me out ... to sit outside with the secretary. And while he was in the inner office, I could hear voices and hear his voice raised, you know, as the conversation went on. And then he immediately came out of the office, took me by the hand and we walked home from the school. I just couldn't understand what was happening because I was so sure that I was going to go to school with Mona and Guinevere, Wanda, and all of my playmates.
Also: Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, and Carlotta Walls.
bobalew
(322 posts)NT
Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)Years ago, my Dad was lucky enough to meet her - and she so thoroughly impressed him that he became an admirer for life!
Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)KitSileya
(4,035 posts)So Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and all the other computers of the West Area computer group at NASA.
And Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...Joy Reid - who was mentioned, of course! In reading them, I confess the entertainers are really a second tier for me - but I did think Eartha Kitt was one of the best women of color. She always seemed to wear it so prominently. She took an "in your face" quality wherever she went. I thought I had a great name to add, but did see her noted, as I read down. Rita Moreno has the same quality.
ATL Ebony
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Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.
Yes, she went astray and paid the ultimate price for it, but undeniably Whitney Houston was a successful woman of color. Similar fate for Billie Holiday (Strange Fruit). Jazz/Pop songstress, Grammy Hall of Fame
Awesome tribute to our sisters of color but, unfortunately, we barely scratched the surface. There are so many, many more unnamed successful women of color from various ethnicities and broad spectrum of industries. I LOVE, HONOR and SALUTE YOU ALL.
I've gotten caught up in this thread and should move on otherwise I could make this a multi-page thread. Loved reading the remembrances/responses of others. Great topic obamanut2012, thank you for posting.
obamanut2012
(26,111 posts)Orrex
(63,220 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)"Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis andWheatly (c. 1753 December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet.[1][2] Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
The publication of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) brought her fame both in England and the American colonies. Figures such as George Washingtonpraised her work. During Wheatley's visit to England with her master's son, African-American poet Jupiter Hammon praised her work in his own poem. Wheatley wasemancipated after the death of her master, John Wheatley.[3] She married soon afterward. Two of her children died as infants. After her husband was imprisoned for debt in 1784, Wheatley fell into poverty and died of illness, quickly followed by the death of her surviving infant son.
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The Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, Mary, first tutored Phillis in reading and writing. Their son Nathaniel also helped her. John Wheatley was known as a progressive throughout New England; his family gave Phillis an unprecedented education for an enslaved person, and for a female of any race. By the age of 12, Phillis was reading Greek and Latin classics and difficult passages from the Bible. At the age of 14, she wrote her first poem....
With the 1773 publication of Wheatley's bookPoems on Various Subjects, she "became the most famous African on the face of the earth."[33] Voltaire stated in a letter to a friend that Wheatley had proved that black people could write poetry. John Paul Jones asked a fellow officer to deliver some of his personal writings to "Phillis the African favorite of the Nine (muses) and Apollo."[33] She was honored by many of America's founding fathers, including George Washington, who told her that "the style and manner [of your poetry] exhibit a striking proof of your great poetical Talents."[34]
Critics consider her work fundamental to the genre of African-American literature.[1] She is honored as the first African-American woman to publish a book and the first to make a living from her writing.[35]
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)In 1961, Hunter became part of the civil rights movement when she and Hamilton Holmesbecame the first two African-American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. She graduated in 1963.[3]
In 1967, Hunter joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., and anchored the local evening news. In 1968, Hunter-Gault joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent, becoming The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in June 1997. She worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, asNational Public Radio's chief correspondent in Africa from 1997 to 1999. Hunter-Gault left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent in 2005,[4] which she had held since 1999, though she still regularly appeared on the station, and others, as an Africa specialist.
During her association with The NewsHour, Hunter-Gault won additional awards: twoEmmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work onApartheid's People, a NewsHour series on South Africa.[5] She also received the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from theNational Association of Black Journalists, aCandace Award for Journalism from theNational Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1988,[6] the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, theGood Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, and two awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming. The University of Georgia Academic Building is named for her, along with Hamilton Holmes, as it is called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Building, as of 2001. She has been a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors since 2009[7] and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Carter Center.[8]
Hunter-Gault is author of In My Place (1992), a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts).... "Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville);[1] theFreedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel;[2] co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project and working on the Selma Voting Rights Movement. This helped gain Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to oversee and enforce state practices to ensure that African Americans and other minorities were not prevented from registering and voting.
...During the civil rights era and shortly after, many of the male leaders received most of the recognition for its successes. As the civil rights era has been studied by historians, Nash's contributions have been more fully recognized.
In 1995 historian David Halberstam described Nash as " bright, focused, utterly fearless, with an unerring instinct for the correct tactical move at each increment of the crisis; as a leader, her instincts had been flawless, and she was the kind of person who pushed those around her to be at their best, or be gone from the movement."[28]
Nash is featured in the award-winning documentary film series Eyes on the Prize(1987) and the 2000 series A Force More Powerful about the history of nonviolent conflict. She is also featured in the PBSAmerican Experience documentary on the Freedom Riders, based on the history of the same name. Nash is also credited with her work in David Halberstam's book about the Nashville Student Movement, The Children, as well as Diane Nash: The Fire of the Civil Rights Movement.
In addition, she has received the Distinguished American Award from the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation (2003),[29]the LBJ Award for Leadership in Civil Rights from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (2004),[30] and the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum(2008).[dead link]
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Screw the idea you must be famous or rich to be a success.
I can from a family that started with nothing, literally. My father was an orphan in the Philippines from WWII where my grandfather was taken away by Japanese soldiers never to be seen again (he likely died in a forced labor camp) and my grandmother died shortly after he was born from complications with the childbirth because the Japanese refused her treatment at the hospital, probably because of who my grandfather was. My mom came from a dirt poor Lumbee Indian family in NC that had disowned her and kicked her out with the clothes on her back.
I made it through college on the Resrve GI Bill, grabtsband working almost full time during the school year and 50-60 hours a week when school wasn't in session, I had a successful career in the Army Reseve retiring at E-7 including a tour in Afghanistan and 2 years after that on active duty helping to train other units that were about to go, I did 10 years in law enforcement and turned that experience into a great privte sector job doing security training and background investigations for a company that does government contract work, and I recently upped that experience into a small private consulting company doing some of the same training for other companies and police departments that want it.
I consider myself to be pretty dammed successful, thank you. Success doesn't have to be and should be measured in fame or fortune.
Too damm many people have a warped sense of what success is and sell their own achievements and success way short. Don't do that people.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)She makes the world a funnier, better place. And her huge fan base knows it.
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pat_k
(9,313 posts)Except for Jane Cooke Wright, almost all the names that came to mind are in entertainment (Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and of course Oprah, and many others already named above) or members of congress and activists (Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Lee, Corrine Brown, Carrie Meek, Angela Davis, my new Rep. Pramila Jayapal, and, may they rest in peace, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones... there are others in last few congresses whose names escape me) .
I'm embarrassed that I can't name more women of color in business, or other fields, except Sheila Johnson, but perhaps she counts as entertainment too?
During the effort to impeach Bush, I had the pleasure of meeting (briefly) Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Barbara Lee, and Cynthia McKinney. With Cynthia McKinney when she spoke at the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville back in 2005:
https://goo.gl/photos/DsAf51aDN3jo6dZy9
Lars39
(26,110 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
-- Carol Moseley Braun
I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
-- Carol Moseley Braun
It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.
-- Carol Moseley Braun
Rhiannon12866
(205,857 posts)I was sure someone else would have named her - I was on DU during that whole campaign and I followed the candidates closely. We sure had some good ones that year.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Stephanie Tubbs Jones
1950-2008
Posted by Senator Sun Jan-08-06 11:01 AM
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My Memory Lane with Andy Stephenson -- January 6th, 2005
(For those who couldn't get to the memorial service, this was my contribution to the "open mike" portion.)
Sometimes you find yourself in the right place at the right time. I think many of us consider meeting Andy to have been one of those times.
One time I know I was in the right place at the right time was on January 6th, when I found myself standing at the reception desk of Senator Barbara Boxer's office just as the first photocopies of her letter to Stephanie Tubbs-Jones were being distributed confirming that she would stand and object to the unlawful Ohio electors.
Needless to say I was elated. I did a quick "gimme, gimme" for a copy of the letter and for a Senate Chamber Pass the aide was also offering (only for a souvenir, as I knew I'd be with the "troops" rallying rather than in the chamber).
But it was also standing in the office at that time that I first saw Andy Stephenson. He was across the reception room talking with some other people and though I'd probably passed him in the halls of the Russell Senate building a few times, this was when I first connected name and face.
Now there's no way I can prove this, but it has since occurred to me that it may well have been Andy Himself that Senator Boxer just couldn't say no to.
In any case, it's a memory I cherish.
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I can't recall why I wasn't with Senator in the office. I watched from the balcony as the group came out waving the letter. It's a cherished memory for me too, one I dedicate to the three incredible souls we've lost since that day: Andy in 2006, Dusty in 2011, and Karyn Altman in 2015
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)A world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Just to name a few others:
Althea Gibson, an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title.
Florence Griffith Joyner (aka Flo-Jo), an American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand.
Jackie Joyner-Kersey, an American retired track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump.
And many more, the names escape me at the moment. Again, obamanut2012, thanks for this thread as you can see it stirred quite a large response.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She was an Honorary Councillor of the World Future Council. In 2011, Maathai died of complications from ovarian cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Wangari Maathai is another woman I was unaware of. Thank you.
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GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Since you seem to know so much.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)I just love her.