Collaboration happens sometimes when you don’t agree with the person you are working with. In those moments there is an opportunity to learn about yourself and how you work with others who disagree with you.
Affirmation
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TV Talk With The Sistas
In Season Seven of TV Talk we are going to tell you about the best African American movies ever. Some of them were made by AA, while others were only stories that included AA. All of these movies were life changing.
Back when we were kids there were very few African Americans on television. So if it had African Americans in it, you watched it. It didn’t matter what the story was about, it was just an experience to see someone who looked like us on Television or in the movies. Our first episode examines one of those shows
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Art of the Month
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 26, 1862. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells found better pay as a teacher.
Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, where her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. Subjected to continued threats and criminal violence, including when a white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses, Wells left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois.
Even though she moved, it didn’t stop her from documenting the lynchings of African Americans exposing the brutality and analyzing the sociology. She was outspoken in the women’s rights and civil rights movement. In 2020, she was posthumously honored with a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work reporting on violence against African Americans.
A story is reported that Wells went to lunch with Frederick Douglass, in a place she never thought would let her in. Yet, Douglass showed it was possible to eat in a White only restaurant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Affirmation
Collaborati
Collaborating with others who have different skillsets or points of view can help grow you. I love the story of how Ida B Wells was having a meal with Frederick Douglass. She had said she would like to eat at the restaurant across from their meeting place, but it did not allow our people in.
Douglass walked in, she followed. After not being welcome and told to leave, Douglass told them who he was. Once they learned who he was, they not only allowed them to eat, but shared stories with them. This situation gave Wells the opportunity is there even when you don’t think it is. Collaborating allowed her to see things from a different perspective.
Book of the Quarter
Privateers
A single young woman is tricked by modern day pirates losing everything she owned. As she tries to figure out what happened to her belongings, her world crashes around her as government and private agencies treat her as a suspect. Determined to find the man who did this to her, she stumbles onto a government top secret. Finding this modern-day pirate turns into a race against lethal force.
You can purchase these at amazon.com and books2read.com
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Art of the Month
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women.
Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 26, 1862. At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She went to work and kept the rest of the family together with the help of her grandmother. Later, moving with some of her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee, Wells found better pay as a teacher.
Wells co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, where her reporting covered incidents of racial segregation and inequality. Subjected to continued threats and criminal violence, including when a white mob destroyed her newspaper office and presses, Wells left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Affirmation
Ida B Wells understood what working with others could do. She collaborated with others throughout her life to form some life changing organizations like the NAACP. She also did work that put a spotlight on lynchings through her journalistic work.
Wells did not focus on one thing with her life, but spread out to collaborate with others throughout her
life over many things.
Book of the Month
Privateers
A single young woman is tricked by modern day pirates losing everything she owned. As she tries to figure out what happened to her belongings, her world crashes around her as government and private agencies treat her as a suspect. Determined to find the man who did this to her, she stumbles onto a government top secret. Finding this modern-day pirate turns into a race against lethal forces. You can purchase these at amazon.com and books2read.com
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