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In July 2024, this group of Black women burst onto the national scene when it announced that it had raised $1.5 million for the Kamala Harris campaign the day of her dramatic entrance into the ...
Detroit members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and The Links Incorporated proudly share a sisterhood with presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Jotaka Eaddy in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23, 2025. Credit - Kyna Uwaeme for TIME. W hen Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race in July and endorsed Kamala Harris for President, Jotaka Eaddy was ...
In 1921, a group of eight social welfare organizations in Detroit's Black community banded together to form what was then known as the Detroit Association of Colored Women's Clubs. In later years, more organizations joined the association, and by 1941 the association and its president, Rosa Gragg, began looking for a permanent headquarters ...
Before World War I, Detroit had about 4,000 Black people, 1% of its population. In the 1890s, journalist and founder of the black paper, Detroit Plaindealer, Robert Pelham Jr. and lawyer D. Augustus Straker worked in Detroit and throughout the state to create branches of the National Afro-American League.
The Detroit Study Club is a Black women's literary organization formed in 1898 by African American women in Detroit, Michigan, who were dedicated to individual intellectual achievement and Black community social betterment. [1] The Club emerged in the 1890s around the same time as numerous other Black women's clubs across the country. [2]
Jotaka Eaddy, founder and CEO of #WinWithBlackWomen, and Essence Communications will receive special honors at the 56th NAACP Image Awards Creative Honors ceremony held Friday, Feb. 21 in Los Angeles.
The Frances Harper Inn is a house located at 307 Horton Street in Detroit, Michigan. It is significant for its operation, between about 1915 and 1950, by the Christian Industrial Club, a Detroit Black women's club. The club used the house to provide safe and affordable housing for Black women and girls who did not have families to house them.