Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/256

Black women | February 2023

February: Alphabet run O & P Black women Justice Folklore

2023 global initiatives: #1day1woman2023 Peace and Diplomacy

See also: Future events

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR)! Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according to Humaniki, only 19.81% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

Online event 1–28 February 2023
Women in Red - Black History Month 2023 Use social media to promote our work! Facebook Wiki Women in Red Twitter @wikiwomeninred Instagram @wikiwomeninred Pinterest 2023 editathons Hashtag #wikiwomeninred Add to article talk pages . {{WikiProject Biography}} {{WikiProject Women}} if born after 1950; or {{WikiProject Women's History}} if born before 1950. Editathon banner: {{WIR-256}}

Welcome!

In February 2023, 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 AfroCrowd and Wikipedia: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

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 (created automatically from Wikidata) Black women in the visual arts (created automatically from Wikidata) Black history (crowd sourced list) Black women in the US (crowd sourced list) Indigenous women (crowd sourced list) Black women in Food History (Smithsonian list) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers Notable Black American Women Dictionary of African Biography (only four three left to complete!) 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:

• 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
• Dominique Leach
• Sharon Lewis, DHA, RN-BC, CPM
• Dannette Smith MSW, Chief Executive Officer, Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
• Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining[5],[6]

Participants

• SusunW (talk) 14:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
• Cielquiparle (talk) 14:58, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 17:18, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
• gobonobo ^{+ c} 12:33, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
• Krisgabwoosh (talk) 22:17, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
• PamD 09:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 10:24, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 16:08, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• TJMSmith (talk) 17:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
• CT55555(talk) 19:51, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• Trillfendi (talk) 04:50, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
• Thellomerca (talk) 21:09, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
• PigeonChickenFish (talk) 03:11, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 15:47, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
• Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
• Dnllnd (talk) 00:16, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
• Citrivescence (talk) 06:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
• Beccaynr (talk) 16:38, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

Promote our work

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

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

1. Yolette Lévy
2. JULIAN (also 257)
3. Kenice Mobley
4. The Busy Bee Café
5. Florence's Restaurant
6. Belinda C. Anderson
7. Bertha's Kitchen
8. Manassa Danioko (also 257)
9. Maryan Ahmed Ali
10. Marthe Wandou (also 257)
11. Ruth Tappe Scruggs - PIN
12. Yvonne Ntacyobatabara Basebya
13. Aminta H. Breaux -img, PIN
14. Renee Poussaint (also 255) - Mastodon
15. Tara Duncan (media executive)
16. Heidi M. Anderson -img, PIN
17. Resego Kgosidintsi (also 257)
18. Londone Myers (meant to create this article years ago, but this meet up reminded me)
19. Charlotte Andrews Stephens - destub, pic, PIN
20. Shirley Jefferson
21. Ruth Clement Bond -add img, infobox, PIN
22. Dorothy Pelham Beckley
23. Natasha L. Henry-Dixon - Mastodon, TW
24. Child Welfare: An Africentric Perspective
25. Ajoa Mintah - Mastodon, TW
26. Carey B. Maddox-Preston - PIN
27. Pearl Anna Neal - PIN
28. Evelyn Nguleka -PIN
29. Valérie Kaboré
30. Gloria Cameron (also 257 and 259) - PIN
31. Aminatta N'gum (also 257)
32. Cheryl L. McAfee
33. Constance Jordan Wilson
34. Safia Otokoré - PIN
35. Reaner Shannon - PIN
36. Bintou Sanankoua
37. Hermine E. Ricketts
38. Michaele Pride-Wells
39. Pearl Grigsby Richardson - PIN
40. Shirley Fulton - ITN
41. Carol Chilton - PIN
42. Blanche Taylor Dickinson - PIN
43. GoodGirl LA - destub
44. Gonzell White - added img, infobox, PIN
45. Rebecca Stiles Taylor - added img, PIN
46. Blanche Armwood - added img, infobox, PIN
47. Pauline Bray Fletcher - PIN
48. Aldena Windham Davis Smith - better img, PIN
49. Ottie Beatrice Graham - PIN
50. Frances Coker
51. Othello Maria Harris-Jefferson - PIN
52. Zeta Phi Beta - added images of four founders; PIN
53. Viola Tyler Goings - PIN
54. Louise Stokes Hunter -add img, infobox, PIN
55. Ruth Winifred Howard -add free img, PIN
56. Inabel Burns Lindsay -add 2nd img, PIN
57. Gladys Tignor Peterson - PIN
58. Arnetta McKamey Wallace - PIN
59. Zephyr Moore Ramsey - PIN
60. Lillian Skinker Malone - PIN
61. Franita Tolson
62. Inez Jackson (also WIR-251) - PIN
63. Delores Ann Richburg Greene - PIN
64. Jennifer Regina Farmer upgrade
65. Nadia Theodore - PIN
66. Monique Holsey-Hyman TW, PIN
67. Millie Bown Russell - PIN
68. Charity Angya upgrade
69. Zerita Stepteau - PIN
70. Esther Nakajjigo
71. Dannette Smith
72. Maryrose Reeves Allen - PIN
73. Erna P. Harris (also WiR-251 and 255)
74. Yaya Migansi
75. Andrea Bonilla TW
76. N. Louise Young - add img, infobox, PIN
77. Marion Thompson Wright - add img, PIN
78. Marian Palmer Capps -add img, PIN TW

Did you know? articles

• ... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life? (2023-03-19)
• ... that African-American journalist Erna P. Harris (pictured) was called a "fearless critic" of the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II? (2023-02-18)

In the News articles

• Shirley Fulton (2023-02-15)

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Ora Brown Stokes Perry
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  Ruth Tappe Scruggs
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  Ruth Clement Bond
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  Charlotte Andrews Stephens
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  Pearl Grigsby Richardson
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  Blanche Taylor Dickinson
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  Gonzell White
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  Blanche Armwood
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  Rebecca Stiles Taylor
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  Pauline Bray Fletcher
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  Aldena Windham Davis Smith
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  Othello Maria Harris-Jefferson
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  Ottie Beatrice Graham
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  Pearl Anna Neal (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Myrtle Tyler Faithful (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Fannie Pettie Watts (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Viola Tyler Goings (Zeta Phi Beta "Five Pearls")
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  Inabel Burns Lindsay
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  Mae Hatchette Seabrook
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  Ruth Winifred Howard
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  Louise Stokes Hunter
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  Arnetta McKamey Wallace
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  Gladys Tignor Peterson
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  Lillian Skinker Malone
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  Zephyr Moore Ramsey
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  Erna P. Harris
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  Monique Holsey-Hyman
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  Zerita Stepteau
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  Maryrose Reeves Allen
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  Anna Grey (footballer)
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  Rihanna
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  Aparajita Auddy
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  Mavis Staples
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  Lil' Kim
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  N. Louise Young
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  Marion Thompson Wright
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  Marian Palmer Capps

Event templates

• Invitation: February 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-256: {{WIR-256}}