http://www.womanistaffairs.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:44:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dr. Wangari Maathai organized women in her home country of Kenya to plant trees to save the environment. It might not sound like a major victory or task, but the government did not want this to happen. She was told at first that people without diplomas can not plant trees. At ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/sung_sheroes/sung-sheroe-dr-wangari-maathai-2004-nobel-peace-prize-winner-2 One day in a counseling session with a woman I shall call Ginger-- I was given this anonymous piece which touched my heart. We had been discussing many things about how and why the Africana woman is invisible, yet her shoulders carry so many.  Ginger said that she had received ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/unsung_sheroes/unsung-sheroe-to-all-invisible-women-of-color This New Category will feature creative projects by Women of Color. Most will be UnSung Creative Artists who are getting their legs by publishing here for the first time.  So, Enjoy!! Phyllis Collins, LaShena Cross and Kendra Harris are our featured artists for this Black History Month (February) and for Women's ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/the-creative-woman/the-creative-woman Our Sung Sheroe is Dr. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, an honorary Sister of Color whose research helped to inspire me to develop WomanistAffairs.com,  dedicated to the world's Women of  Color--to give us voice. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Ph.D.  is a professor of Philosophy and Religion in the Women's Spirituality program at the California ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/sung_sheroes/sung-sheroe-dr-lucia-chiavola-birnbaum Just as Barrack and Michelle Obama make ready to assume their leadership of the free world, as Barrack is installed tomorrow as the first African American President of America, they are actually imitating ancestors from centuries ago. African women and men ruled together. Each balanced the scale of governing the ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/unsung_sheroes/unsung-sheroe-recognizing-all-african-woman-dedicated-to-michelle-robertson-obama-our-first-lady-of-african-descent On this day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, I am launching this website as an instrument of change and transformation. This great African American believed in a different future for his children. Little did he know that his children would live to see the country's first African American President, a man ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/education_corner/honoring-dr-martin-luther-king Women's History: The will be held open for information that will entice the website visitors to come back.  Tidbits of information to tweak the curiosity will be posted here.  Debunking history of its prejudices and misnomers against women, will take place here. Did you know that marriage was not an invention of ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/unsung_sheroes/education-corner This corner will be held open for discussion on topics that readers have requested to be addressed from their readings. This will be a place where women can send in their topics for discussion and the website will attempt to address the issues raised within the correspondence as it is ... http://www.womanistaffairs.com/the_womans_room/the-womens-room