After suffering the devastating effects of severe hair loss and damage related to the mishandling of her hair, Eddie began to research ways to grow her hair healthy and strong. She purchased every product in the beauty supply store that claimed to be a miracle cure for damaged hair, but found that these products did not live up to their claims. Along her journey to healthy hair she discovered priceless information regarding the harmful ingredients contained in hair care products geared towards African Americans; the most effective ways of washing, conditioning and handling African American hair; the most beneficial ingredients for African American hair; and much more. She has compiled her 12 years of research and produced the comprehensive guide to growing African American hair to its fullest potential. The guide includes everything one would need in order to grow and maintain healthy hair. The book is extremely informational, entertaining as well as easy to follow and understand. There is a chart included in the book which reveals the hair-friendly foods, vitamins and minerals, a glossary of ingredients that you should stay away from, as well as a section of homemade deep conditioning recipes. The back cover documents 18 months of hair growth, which is quite impressive.
The information Eddie discovered during her research was found to be invaluable, but it did not solve the problem of finding healthy hair care products at reasonable prices. This led her to formulate a complete line of natural hair care products. For years she created homemade concoctions that contained ingredients essential for the health of African American hair. While using these products in conjunction with the information in her book, Eddie consistently saw tremendous improvements with her hair. She then began to make the concoction for family and friends along with providing them with a copy of her book. They too began to reach hair goals never before achieved. In 2007, Eddie decided to market her natural hair care line along with her guide and has found much success. Her website www.fabulousblackwoman.com displays testimony after testimony of accolades and praise for her wonderful products. Eddie currently does online and phone consultations, as well as workshops to teach African American women of to effectively grow and maintain healthy hair.
As researching hair and caring for hair became a major part of Eddie’s life she decided she wanted to display her passion in a hot and trendy way, so she designed the Natural Headed Girl line. The line includes shirts, hats and bags that display an African American woman with natural hair. The line was created to encourage African American women to see the natural beauty in themselves and to be proud of every aspect of the culture, heredity and distinctive physical characteristics of the African American woman. While searching for beautiful hair, Eddie found beauty within her that she had neglectfully overlooked for many years. She also noticed that she was not the only woman that failed to realize the strength and beauty of herself and the African American woman as a whole. As she looked around her she noticed women being neglected, abused, mistreated and run down by life. This led her to create her website www.fabulousblackwoman.com. The purpose of the site is to uplift and encourage women, especially African American women. Her mission is make sure that every Black woman knows how fabulous she is and that she shines so bright that everyone who looks at or even thinks of a black woman recognizes her FABULOUSNESS.
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| | Fabulous Black Woman Newsletter | Woman's History Month
March 2009 | |
 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
The public celebration of women's history in this country began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. The week including March 8, International Women's Day, was selected. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Barbara Mikulski co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women's History Week. In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month.Two significant factors contributed to the emergence of women's history. The women's movement of the sixties caused women to question their invisibility in traditional American history texts. The movement also raised the aspirations as well as the opportunities of women, and produced a growing number of female historians. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the early women's historians, has remarked that "without question, our first inspiration was political. Aroused by feminist charges of economic and political discrimination . . . we turned to our history to trace the origins of women's second-class status." While I was doing research for this newsletter; I came across some extremely interesting facts and stories, but I mostly came away understanding why I feel so abundantly blessed and grateful; all of the odds were against me yet I was able to overcome! I live in a day and time where the most prominent discrimination between the sexes is the pay scale, which is signficant, but pales in comparison to what women before me had to endure. Their fights; broken spirits, dashed dreams, and grand struggles allowed me the luxury of not just having my own business, but thriving during this recession as well as basic rights as freedom! To all of the women before me that were role models and that have shown me that although you may not win every fight; one victory could change the world, so NEVER give up; I want to say thanks. To all of the women that inspire me, encourage me, and support me in all that I do; I also want to tell you THANKS! - Shirley Chisholm: First Black female U.S Representative from New York 1969-1983
- The first black female Secretary of State was Condoleezza Rice, 2005-2009.
- Constance Baker Motley became the first black woman federal judge, 1966
- Patricia Harris became the first black female ambassador (1965; Luxembourg)Astronaut
- Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to enter space when she served on the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavor in September 1992Poet (published):
- Phillis Wheatley, 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Considered the founder of African-American literature.
- Pulitzer Prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
- Toni Morrison Nobel Prize for Literature 1993
- First Oscar: Hattie McDaniel, 1940, supporting actress, Gone with the Wind
- Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman television host in 1986, "The Oprah Winfrey Show.".
- Tennis champion: Althea Gibson became the first black person to play in and win Wimbledon and the United States national tennis championship. She won both tournaments twice, in 1957 and 1958. In all, Gibson won 56 tournaments)
- Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921.
- Millionaire: Madame C. J. Walker.
- Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984
WE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD ONE WOMAN AT A TIME! TAKE THE TIME TODAY TO TELL ALL THE WOMEN YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU, THE COMMUNITY AND TO THIS WORLD! |
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Angela Davis  Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the "History of Consciousness" program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a "University Professor," one of only seven in the entire California University system, Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Born into a middle-class family in Birmingham, Alabama on January 26, 1944, Davis attended segregated schools in that city until she enrolled at New York's Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS), famous for its Communist faculty and student body. After having been exposed to the Marxist classics at LRS, Davis moved on to a full scholarship at Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York, an adjunct of LRS.
In 1968, while working at UCLA Davis joined the Communist Party, voicing her belief that "the only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class." In September 1969 Davis was fired from UCLA when her membership in the Communist Party became known. This resulted in a celebrated First Amendment battle that made Davis a national figure and forced UCLA to rehire her.
In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors. In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley's was killed by a shotgun owned by Ms. Davis. To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.
Two months later Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City. At her 1972 trial, Davis presented an alibi and was acquited of all charges and subsequently released.
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| Josephine Baker  Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her second husband, whom she married at age 15. At age 13, she ran away from home and began dancing on Broadway. In 1925 she went to Paris and almost instantly became one of the best-known entertainers in both France and much of Europe. During WWII, Josephine Baker worked with the Red Cross, gathered intelligence for the French Resistance and entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East. After the war, Josephine Baker, with her second husband, adopted twelve children from around the world, making her home a World Village. In 1957, Ms. Baker was refused service at the famous Stork Club in NYC and was accused of communist and fascist sympathies; she later found herself fighting these rumors. She responded by crusading for racial equality, refusing to entertain in any club or theater that was no integrated, and thereby breaking the color bar at many establishments. IN 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 1950's thing got rocky for her an in 1969, she was evicted from her chateau; but Princess Grace of Monaco gave her a village; and she began her stage comeback in 1973. In 1975, Josephine Baker's Carnegie Hall comeback performance was a success, as her subsequent Paris performance. But, two days after her last Paris performance, she died of a stroke. |
Sojourner Truth Sojourner  Truth was born in 1797 on a Dutch settlement in upstate New York. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree. She was one of 13 children. She spoke only Dutch until she was sold from her family around the age of nine. When she was sold to th Neely family that only spoke English. She was fiercely beat for frequent miscommunication, so she quickly learned to speak English. She later said that Neely once whipped her with "a bundle of rods, prepared in the embers, and bound together with cords." It was during this time that she began to find refuge in religion -- beginning the habit of praying aloud when scared or hurt. The state of New York began in 1799 to legislate the gradual abolition of slaves, which was to happen July 4, 1827. Dumont had promised Isabella freedom a year before the state emancipation, "if she would do well and be faithful." However, he reneged on his promise. She continued working until she felt she had done enough to satisfy her sense of obligation to him -- spinning 100 pounds of wool -- then escaped before dawn with her infant daughter, Sophia. On June 1, 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth and told friends, "The Spirit calls me, and I must go." She wandered in relative obscurity, depending on the kindness of strangers. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave was published privately by William Lloyd Garrison in 1850. It gave her an income and increased her speaking engagements, where she sold copies of the book. She spoke about anti-slavery and women's rights, often giving personal testimony about her experiences as a slave. During the Civil War, she spoke on the Union's behalf, as well as for enlisting black troops for the cause and freeing slaves. In 1864, she worked among freed slaves at a government refugee camp on an island in Virginia and was employed by the National Freedman's Relief Association. After the Civil War ended, she continued working to help the newly freed slaves. |
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