When I realize all the work that God has given me to do, it almost takes my breath away to think how little justice I can do to it. But it is a comfort to turn and do the next thing to relieve some poor soul’s trouble. Susan La Flesche...
Oh! Let every little girl [and boy] thank our heavenly father for the blessed gift of His dear Son on the first Christmas Day, eighteen hundred and eighty years ago. As we come to the end of nearly two years of posts on Black Women in America, I am thrilled...
I have always seen failure as a challenge to pull myself up and keep going.
“I would rather die,” she wrote in a letter to her brother, “than abandon the 43 people I am responsible for”. Felicite Niyitegeka was caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of nearly one million Tutsis.[1] Men, women and children, including entire families were massacred at...
Black Women in America Dear Friends, Did you enjoy taking the quiz that I posted on September 25th? How many did you get right before you had to look some of them up? Please feel free to use this exercise in any way that might be helpful at your church...
Dear Friends, I hope you were inspired by all of the posts for the last year and a half on remarkable Black Women in America. Their stories are fascinating and heartening to read. If you want to share them in with others please feel free. If you are teaching a...
Slavery is supposed to have been abolished, but today, millions around the world are enslaved, victims of human trafficking. Traffickers prey on the helpless, most often women and children. Even poor men are used and exploited for the benefit and gain of others, and some spend their entire lives never...
Black Women in America – Part 43 We have come to the end of our journey through the lives of remarkable Black Women in America. We have told the stories of nearly 100 amazing black women and if I had not limited the number to Black Female Firsts, we could...
Black Women in America – Part 42 We are coming to the end of our journey through the lives of remarkable Black Women in America. We have told the stories of nearly 100 amazing black women and if I had not limited the number to Black Female Firsts, we could...
Black Women in America – Part 41 Over the past year and a half we have related the stories of many great Black Women Firsts. We are thankful for their contributions to society. Countless people have better lives now thanks to the work of the early pioneers in education, writing,...
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