I recently interviewed Army Retired Major General Jan Edmunds, Chairman of WIMSA about the evolvement of the national museum. She stated, “Women need to know, the memorial is a “living” memorial, and serves as a reminder for all women who served our country. It’s not just for the armed forces, but those who volunteered with the Red Cross, and Peace Corps and several other organizations during all eras of war are welcome to register.”
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Jessica Nabongo’s stamp-riddled passports and scores of vibrant photographs offer a glimpse of her journey to every country on Earth. On Oct. 6, Nabongo arrived at her final destination, Seychelles, and became the first Black woman to document her visits to all 193 countries.
Hosea Sanders, ABC 7 WLS Chicago Anchor, will present the John H. Johnson Journalism and Media Award during the John H. Johnson Day celebration, Friday, November 1, 2019 at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 West Ninth St., Little Rock at 5:30 p.m. He will also moderate the John H. Johnson Day program at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
Linda Johnson Rice will be the featured speaker at two celebrations honoring her father during John H. Johnson Day, Friday, November 1, 2019. Johnson Rice will speak at the John H. Johnson Museum, 604 President Street/Courthouse Square, Arkansas City (Desha County) at 10 a.m.; and Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 West 9th Street, Little Rock at 5:30 p.m. John H. Johnson Day was established April 16, 2019 during the 92nd General Assembly.
Cummings was committed to ensuring that the next generation has access to quality healthcare and education, clean air and water, and a strong economy defined by fiscal responsibility. Children “are the living messages that we send to a future we will never see,” he often said.
In August, Heard and five other Tuskegee architecture students were selected to participate in a national historic preservation program developed by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
When I went to the police academy, which was some time ago, a lot of people were coming back from Iraq, and they were looking for jobs.
“She was already excited about becoming a mother,” Karen Phillips, Kierra’s mother, told ABC News shortly after Kierra disappeared. “That’s all my child ever wanted, to be a mom and accomplish all the things she set to accomplish – to have a nice paying job which she had, to get a new car which she bought, to move into her own apartment which she did, and to become a mother which she was about to.”
“A ban will introduce or re-introduce many hard to employ young Black New Yorkers to the criminal justice system,” the mothers wrote. “We do not want to take parents, sons and daughters out of households for small infractions that carry financial obligations.”
Memoir provides lens to ‘see’ Cyntoia Brown-Long