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By the early 1960s, after securing 7 Up and other big accounts, she had become the first African-American woman to run a public relations firm with national clients. [1] She was the first African-American woman to join the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce [1] and the Public Relations Society of America, the profession's trade association ...
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.
Eaddy launched Win With Black Women in 2020 to counter racist and sexist attacks against Black women being considered to join Biden’s ticket as Vice President.
In 2024, Washington Women in Public Relations named her "Woman of the Year." "Aba is a luminary," said Rebecca Lowell Edwards, the former chief communications and marketing officer at the ACLU who ...
Willa Beatrice Brown (January 22, 1906 – July 18, 1992) was an American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. [1] She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States, [2] the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a ...
The National Association of Black Journalists was founded to increase the presence of black people in mainstream media and change the misrepresentation of black people. [5] The organization used the constitution of The Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. [ 5 ]
In the late 1990s, Stacey Abrams faced a decision. Abrams was working on a master’s in public policy at the University of Texas-Austin, gleaning all that she could learn from Rep. Barbara Jordan ...
The number of Black women in the music industry has increased throughout the years, despite the industry's focusing on the works of African-American men. [20] African-American women have used the hip-hop genre to increase their representation and reconstruct what their identity means to them, taking the power into their own hands. [20]