I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Diane Jefferis. She will help me tell stories of women like Barbara Jordan who a member of the House of Representatives and a leader in the civil rights movement. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was the first African American woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
I want to say Thank You for supporting the Queens project to Kelly Hensy Cobb. You will help me tell stories of women like Harriet Tubman, who was born a slave named Araminta Ross. She was an abolitionist, humanitarian and during the Civil War, a Union spy. She used the Underground Railroad to rescue about 70 enslaved families.
I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Jacklyn Deaver. You will help me tell the stories of women like Elizabeth Jane Crochrane who wrote under the name of Nellie Bly. She was a ground breaking reporter who took trips around the world and faked insanity for the story.
I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Crystal Singleton Patton. You will help me tell the stories of women like Mary Jane McLeod Bethune who was an educator and civil rights leader. She was one of seventeen children and the only one in her family to attend school, so each day, she taught the others what she had learned. Bethune wrote later, “I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a loving God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.”
I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Marsha Bolden. You will help me tell the stories of women like Shirley Chisholm who was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress. Even though she was born in the U.S. her mother sent her to Barbados for her early education. She said “Years later I would know what an important gift my parents had given me by seeing to it that I had my early education in the strict, traditional, British-style schools of Barbados. If I speak and write easily now, that early education is the main reason.”
Family Tree will be shown at the Oklahoma Urban Cinema Festival in April. We hope you will join us there.
I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Jana Reed. You will help me tell the stories of women like Elizabeth Phoebe Griscom Ross better known as Betsy Ross who was born the eighth of seventeen children. During the Revolutionary War, she worked in the upholstery business repairing uniforms, making tents and blankets and prepackaged ammunition.
I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Aldo Billingslea. You will help me tell the stories of women like Bessie Smith who was nicknamed The Empress of the Blues. As a child, her brother and she used to dance and sing on the street to earn money. She later became one of the highest paid entertainers of her day.
I am almost through with my latest novel. It has been so much fun to write and I know you are going to love it. Destiny’s Dilemma is a historical novel, which means I am using some real circumstances and fake people. It takes place in 1912 Fort Worth, Texas when the city was on the cusp of becoming a really good city or a hell hole. Young Colored woman comes home after traveling round the world to get in touch with her roots and what she finds more than she bargained for. In a few weeks, I will put up a sample chapter.
As part of the celebration, I am giving away free copies of Connections on Amazon Kindle today.
Connections is the story of a private investigator who with her best friend found missing relatives, spied on cheating spouses and caught a few bail jumpers. This private investigator never imagined the bad guys would chase her.
Running for her life, Sandy Herrick discovered that God was the only one with her who wasn’t talking smack, trying to kill her or get into her pants. As she and her friends try to figure out who framed them, they all discover that there was more to each other than they thought they knew.
As evil forces closed in on them, they have to determine who they trust and what they believe about each other. Would this be enough to save them?
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I want to say Thank you for supporting the Queens project to Kerry McCormick. You will help me tell the stories of women like Sacagawea who was an interpreter and guide during the exploration of Lewis and Clark. She was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who the NAWSA used as a symbol of women’s worth and independence. She was pregnant with her first child when she began to work with Lewis and Clark.
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