Madame C.J. Walker launched her hair-care line in 1905 with about $2 and a dream. While her personal fortune was worth an estimated $600,000 to $700,000...
Coretta Scott King had a habit of showing the nation her scars, not her wounds. For example, after her husband was assassinated on April 4, 1968,...
Harriet Tubman did not know she would become the nation’s first female, African-American leader in September 1849, the night she saw her master “turned around in...
Long before Rosa Parks made history for refusing to give up her seat in the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Elizabeth...
A week before her death in the summer of 2012, State Senator Yvonne B. Miller held her last political meeting. Instead of sitting at a table...
“Women must feel their responsibility for promoting the physical, mental and spiritual advance of the race through study,” Dr. Dorothy B. Ferebee told congregants at a...
“A former student recalled that when Miss Margaret Gordon stood in the halls of Jacox Junior High School she could silence the students with a glance....
(TriceEdneyWire.com) At my church, we sing a song entitled “I’m Not Tired Yet.” I love that song because it gives me the energy and the inspiration...
In January of 2009, Michelle Robinson Obama became the first African-American first lady of the United States as wife of its first Black President Barack H....
By Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madame CJ Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her...
