Henrietta Spearman the first African-American woman photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Currently she is the Chief Operations Officer of Savvy Sentences, Inc., a small woman-owned creative writing firm.
This month on The Local Take, we are highlighting women who have made history and women who are making history. This week we speak with Henrietta Spearman, the first African American woman to work as a photojournalist at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
After graduating from Georgia State with a degree in broadcast journalism, Spearman took a job as a copy carrier at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. She began writing stories and was eventually assigned to cover the In-Town beat.
Alice Coachman was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal
Her victory was celebrated in London, but not in the segregated American south Share Updated: 10:57 AM MST Mar 8, 2021 Victoria Ottomanelli
Her victory was celebrated in London, but not in the segregated American south Share Updated: 10:57 AM MST Mar 8, 2021
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Her victory was celebrated in London, but not in the segregated American south Share Updated: 10:57 AM MST Mar 8, 2021 Victoria Ottomanelli March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we ll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress. These advocates and pioneers have contributed incredible things to not only women s history, but to the history of the United States as a whole, and are an inspiration to young girls everywhere.Watch t
Stacey E. Plaskett represents the United States Virgin Islands’ at-large Congressional District. Plaskett made history at the 2021 Senate trial of former President Donald Trump by becoming the first non-voting delegate to serve as a House impeachment manager.
A Brooklyn, N.Y. native of immigrant parents from the Virgin Islands, she earned a law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law. Plaskett served as assistant district attorney for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and senior counsel at the Department of Justice. Later, she moved to the Virgin Islands, where she was elected in 2014 to represent the U.S. territory. Plaskett currently sits on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, only the fourth African American woman on the House’s chief tax-writing committee. She is currently serving her fourth term in Congress.
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The question of whether women should be ordained as clergy has been a subject of much theological debate in Christian circles for generations.
Many prominent churches, such as the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and the Southern Baptist Convention do not permit the ordination of women.
However, many other churches have, over time, come to allow women to become pastors, priests, bishops and even the leaders of their respective denominations.
Here are seven notable United States-based Christian denominations that have voted to allow the ordination of women. They include mainline Protestant denominations and the largest Pentecostal church in the country.
Juel Borders - Senior Class of 1954 Spelman College Yearbook This month for The Local Take, I ve reached out to outstanding women for Women s History Month. If you want to tell us about an outstanding woman in your life, please go to The Local Take With Kiplyn Primus Facebook page and share or call our community engagement line at 404-880-6211. We ll be talking with and about women all month, and it would be great to include your favorite woman! Our series starts with Dr. Juel P. Borders-Benson. We spoke with Dr. Borders-Benson last month about growing up in Wheat Street Baptist Church. I asked her additional questions about her life, attending Spelman College and attending medical school in the late fifties. She speaks about being sheltered at church, home, and school. She was always chaperoned and protected from the dark and evil side of life for Black people in the 1940 s and 50 s. She started at Spelman College at age 16. She remembered being socially immature and thought