Mighty Black Women

 Here are profiles of black women who have succeeded in their lives, families and their professions. Their stories defy the stereotypes of who we are and embrace what we’ve known all along about ourselves. Click here to tell us about a Mighty Black Woman.

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 Cathy Hughes at the helm of Radio One

Cathy Hughes turned a tiny AM radio station in Washington, D.C., into a communications giant with 52 radio stations, a television station and a magazine. She talks about her success with Washington Post writer  Avis Thomas-Lester.

 

 

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Belva Davis, a television anchor for 43 years, has been called the “Bay Area’s Walter Cronkite.”  Read about Davis in the Contra Costa Times. 

  

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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 Helping youth through soccer

Patricia Trippley Demiranda is working through a foundation started in her son’s memory to use sports as a way to motivate and encourage youngsters. Read about Demiranda here.

 

Mary Parker Security Firm First

Mary Parker is the only nationally certified African American female owner of a full-service security firm in the country. Read about Parker in this Atlanta Constitution-Journal  story.     

  

 

 
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Award-winnning storyteller and author

Linda Goss is an award-winning storyteller and author in Philadelphia, and co-founder of the National Association of Black Storytellers. Goss spoke with Sherry Howard.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

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Revered Veteran SororBernice Greene, at 96 one of the oldest members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, talks about her life, joining the sorority in 1932 and much more. Read her interview with Sherry Howard.  

 

 

 

 

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Rising star French minister

Popular French minister, Rama Yade, came to Washington for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference. Read about her rise in French politics  in this Washington Post story.

 

 

  

dorothy-height Dorothy Height at Black Family Reunion Celebration

Dorothy Height, 97, chairwoman and president-emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women, talks about the significance of the reunion, the election of Barack Obama and more in a Washington Post video. The celebration was held in Washington over the weekend. Click for video.      

 
 

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 Sonia Sanchez: 75 and still at it

Poet Sonia Sanchez talks about her busy “retirement” and more in an interview with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Annette John-Hall.

 

 

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 Sarahlyn U. Argrow: Working with the Working Woman

Sarahlyn U. Argrow, struggling with her own issues of divorce, low self-esteem and financial hardship, wanted to help when a friend came to her needing money. Her grandmother’s words rang fresh in her mind – while you are going through your own problems, it does not mean that you can’t help someone else. “I didn’t have the money,” Argrow recalled in a recent interview with WABW. “But God revealed to me that I did have the resources.”  Click here to read her story written by Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb.

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