Just before we round up Women History Month, I just wanted to highlight a few great black women who have contributed to history, who have been leaders in their fields, and who have inspired a generation. I hope that you will find their journey as inspirational as I do:

Katherin Flon –

A seamstress who owned a clothing store in Arcahaie in Haiti. She was recommended to work with a general to create the new Haitian flag following the revolution. She headed the committee commissioned to create the new flag, choosing black representing the people the red for victory. In the year 2000, the Haitian government placed an image of a woman sewing a flag on the 10 gourdes note to celebrate her contributions to Haiti’s independence from France.

Dr. Bayyinah Bello –

MARCH 25TH is her birthday so post on that date. She describes herself as the spouse of deep African thoughts and lover of Ayiti (Haiti). She has lived and traveled around the world learning and teaching. She founded primary and secondary bilingual school Citadelle International School.  Currently, she concentrates her energies in building Fondasyon Felicite for historical research and identity, to build conscious Ayitian to learn culture to bring a better condition of living for all. She is hosting the ONE AFRICA: Power in Unity 2-Day Conference in Detroit on April 30 & May 1, 2022. You can also check out her book, SHEROES of the Haitian Revolution, a biography book that spotlights 10 women who fought, supported, and fully engaged in the war for independence against French slavers in colonial Haiti.

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm was not only the first Black congresswoman in the American congress, but the first Woman and African American to run for the presidency of the united states. She was of Guyanese and Bajan descent. She spent her formative years raised in Barbados then returned to NY. Shirley was director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center until the late 1950s, then as an educational consultant for New York City’s Bureau of Child Welfare. She was the architect of WIC and an advocate of immigrants, gays, and women’s rights.

“I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.”