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Black women editathon
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Black women
February 2024

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Q & R Art+Feminism Find Her
April 2024:	Alphabet run: S & T Gender studies Health
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Press women Alphabet run: U, V & W Geofocus: Central and Eastern Europe Ideas

Welcome!

In February 2024, Women in Red is once again focusing on Black women in conjunction with Black History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts of WikiProject Black Lives Matter.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:

to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram)

What else?

Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
If you tweet about any of the articles, or upload any of the images to Pinterest, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists[edit]

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to Black women are listed below:

African-American women (WD)
Black history (CS)
Black women in Food History (CS)
Black women in the Visual Arts (WD)
Indigenous women (CS)

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias[edit]

BlackPast (WD)
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (CS)
Dictionary of African Biography (WD)
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD)
Notable Black American Women (CS) (WD)
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (CS)
Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS)
Women of Distinction (WD)

There are also individual lists which incorporate Black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include:

Angola (WD)
Bahamas (WD)
Barbados (WD)
Benin (WD)
Botswana (WD)
Burkina Faso (WD)
Burundi (WD)
Cameroon (WD)
Central African Republic (WD)
Chad (WD)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (WD)
Djibouti (WD)
Dominica (WD)
East Timor WD)
Equitorial Guinea (WD)
Eritrea (WD)
Eswatini (WD)
Ethiopia (WD)
Fiji (WD)
Gabon (WD)
Gambia (WD)
Ghana (WD)
Guinea (WD)
Guinea-Bissau (WD)
Haiti (WD)
Ivory Coast (WD)
Jamaica (WD)
Kenya (WD)
Lesotho (WD)
Liberia (WD)
Madagascar (WD)
Malawi (WD)
Mali (WD)
Mozambique (WD)
Namibia (WD)
Niger (WD)
Nigeria (CS) (WD)
Republic of the Congo (WD)
Rwanda (WD)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (WD)
Senegal (WD)
South Africa (WD)
Tanzania (WD)
Uganda (WD)
Zambia (WD)
Zimbabwe (WD)

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

Lots of women in East African Legislative Assembly who could be written if sources can be found.
Gee Bernard (1934–2016), first Black councillor in Croydon and member of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).[1],[2], [3],[4]
Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health^[1]
Dominique Leach^[2]
Washington, D.C. health directors:
- Sharon Lewis^[3] <-- Needs disambiguator
- Ayanna Bennett^[4]
Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining [5],[6]
Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator [7]
Jill Jerold [es] first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.

Participants[edit]

Curbon7 (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Penny Richards (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PigeonChickenFish (talk) 02:36, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Puppies937 (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Darwin Naz (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Eventhisacronym (talk) 03:52, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Grnrchst (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Victuallers (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PamD 08:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Roundtheworld (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fernushki (talk) 19:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
EponineBunnyKickQueen (talk) 19:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Rubystaramaryllis (talk) 20:06, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lajmmoore (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Citrivescence (talk) 04:17, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
— scribbling woman 20:14, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes (articles)[edit]

Promote our work[edit]

Key:

Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

New or upgraded articles[edit]

Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new

Anna Minerva Henderson (added photo) (also 294)
Angela Elayne Gibbs
Daiana Santos
Denise Hinton - PIN
Dominique Leach
Chandra G. Pitts
Betty Fairfax
Ersa Poston - added image, PIN
Jeninah Karungi (also 294)
RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (also WIR 294)
Lula Warlick - PIN
Roberta Clarke (also 299)Round the World challenge - PIN
Ana Fabricia Córdoba
Olivene Chambers (also 294, 297)
Kate Bradley Stovall - PIN
Thainara Faria - PIN
Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate - PIN (also 294, 297)
Karen Schuster Webb (also 294)
Esther Merle Jackson (also 294)
Fahima Hashim
Imagene Stewart - PIN
Jennie Joseph
Norah Olembo (also WIR 297) - PIN
Harriette Estelle Harris Presley - PIN
Sarah A. Hughes
Jacqline - PIN
Dani Balbi - PIN
Zélia Amador
Cornelia Read
Vilma Reis - PIN
Phebe Hayes
Vivienne Newton Gray - PIN
Alyne Dumas Lee - PIN
African Methodist Episcopal women preachers
Denise Charles
Christine Benton Cash - PIN
Amélia Mingas (also 294)
Marjorie Pitter King - added image, PIN
Carrie Still Shepperson - PIN
Paula Cardoso (also 297)
Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
Dinah Whipple
Carrie Burton Overton - PIN
Lyda Moore Merrick
Brenda Swann Holmes - PIN
Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
Denice Santiago - PIN
Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (also 297)
Saba (singer)
Leïla Sy
W. Gertrude Brown - PIN
Mari Malek
Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
Miss Diddy
Tomikia P. LeGrande (also 294/297)
Dominga Lucía Molina
Nicole Pride (also 294/297)
Geraldine Peten - added image, PIN
Katherine J. Boskins Barr - PIN
Soraya Milla - PIN
Vivian Schuyler Key, expanded
Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
Denise Ferreira da Silva - PIN
Wezlynn Tildon - PIN
Liesl Zühlke (also 294) - PIN
Christine Johnson McPhail (also 294)
Gisela Casimiro
Anne Shongwe
Stacey Franklin Jones (also 294)
Georgia L. McMurray
Lillie Patterson - added image, PIN
Rougui Dia
Louise Parrott Cochran - PIN
Karrie G. Dixon (also 294)
Bertha LaBranche Johnson - PIN
Dana Tippin Cutler
Frances Rains - PIN
Thereza Piloya (also 294/297)
Flávia Oliveira (also 293), PIN
Dinha do Acarajé (also 293) - PIN
Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (also 294)
Annie Walker Blackwell - PIN
Pholile Shakantu (also 297) TW, PIN
Tendai Moyo
Enass Muzamel
Marguerite Pétro-Koni-Zezé (also 293)
Safiya George (also 294)
Patricia Hardaway (also 294/297)
Wilma Mishoe (also 294)
Scholastica Kimaryo
Florence "Frankie" Adams - added image TW - PIN
Anita Turpeau Anderson - PIN TW
Ibijoke Faborode
Molly Gaskin
Renita Holmes
Leonne Theodore-John - PIN TW
Susan Chomba
Esi Buobasa
Mary Black (Arizona)
Vernell Coleman
Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan (also 294/297)
Alyce Fraser Denny - PIN
Mary Garnet Barboza Women of Distinction
Marguerite Frierson - PIN
Lillian Steele Proctor (also 297)
Dulce Pereira (also 293) - PIN
Latonia Moore - upgraded
Ivy Baxter
Kristen Lovell
Josephine Harreld Love
Oda Gasinzigwa (also 297)
Tchinda Andrade
Julia Jeter Cleckley
Johanna July
Lola N. Vassall - PIN
Rosemarie Freeney Harding - PIN
Picramnia antidesma
Ana Rita Santiago (also 293)
Samira Sabou
Juanita Ellsworth Miller - PIN
Sylvia Olden Lee - added image, PIN
Emma Kantema-Gaomas
Jane Dabney Shackelford - PIN
Natalia ǀGoagoses
Shennette Garrett-Scott (also 294)
Gladys L. Catchings - PIN
Josephine Lemoyan
Altamira Cecília dos Santos (also 293) - PIN
Ruth Braswell Jones - PIN
Petita Palma and 297 TW - PIN
Carla Akotirene (also 293)
JoNina Abron-Ervin (also 294)
Upile Chisala
Venice Tipton Spraggs
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (also 293) - PIN
Mo-Mamo Karerwa
Wendy Phipps (also 297) TW
Veora Johnson
Eva C. Mitchell - PIN
Ethna Beulah Winston - PIN
Anna W. Ludlow - PIN
Alice Callis Hunter
Mary Evans Wilson - added free img, PIN
Yolande Du Bois - added img, infobox, PIN
Deirdre Cooper Owens (also 294/297)
Mae Virginia Cowdery - added img, PIN
Eulalie Spence - added img, PIN
Georgia Caldwell Smith -added img, PIN
Jane Ellen McAllister -added img, infobox, PIN
Sarah Kamya
Auzerais Bellamy
Safe House Black History Museum

Did you know? articles[edit]

... that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society? (2024-03-31)
... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum (pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated? (2024-03-21)
... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly? (2024-03-13)
... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan? (2024-03-10)