As Women’s History Month approaches and Black History Month is ending, I am proud to say that I have at least two months to reflect on who I am as a person and the history in which I have come. Over the last couple of years, I have felt a bit worn out by the previous generation who fought long and hard that I would have the rights I currently take for granted daily. Yet, I cannot continue to live in the past of become upset because ‘we young folk’ don’t honor Black History Month as they did. I challenge the previous generations to make it as big a deal to them as we do about money, cars, friends, families or any of our other interests. We will continue to have a shielded future if we don’t embrace our past; yet we will have a disproportionate future if we don’t take what was important in history and move past it with those benefits. Every day I wake up, I look forward to the history I create now for the future of Blacks, women and all. I am woman.
I want to personally honor who I am, was and to become not only as a Black person living in the Unites States, but as a woman…one of the most overlooked and underappreciated beings no matter where we live in this world. With high regard, I look up to these women and thank them for the path they have continued to mold for young women like me.
-Mrs. Louise Smith (pictured below)
-Michelle Sublett
-Verna L. Sublett-Moore
-Mrs. Catherine J. Brown
-Mrs. Dawn Rosey
-Dr. Brenda K. Kelly
-Shaunte’ Montgomery (Ph.D. pending J)
-Sandra Truelove
-Beyonce’
-Janelle Monae’
-Julia Roberts
-Iyanala Vanzant
-Oprah Winfrey
-Casise
-Dr. Maya Angelou
-Margaret Thatcher
-Rosa James
-Rosa Parks
-Sandra Bulock
-Mrs. Janet Hill
-Cynthia Fung
-Dr. Robyne Turner
-Dr. Elaine Wirght
