Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts is co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Under her leadership, the broadcast has won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program and the 2017 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team. VIDEOS: WEBSITES: https://www.biography.com/people/robin-roberts-21188247 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/robin-roberts-biography/story?id=128237 https://heightline.com/robin-roberts-newscaster-net-worth/ www.southeastern.edu/news_media/homepage/stories/roberts.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674787.From_the_Heart BOOKS and more…………….. My story, my song : mother-daughter…
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem with her sister to live with their father and his third wife. She earned…
Women’s History Month: Finding Your Voice
Girling up : how to be strong, smart and spectacular / Mayim Bialik Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahead. A must-have book for all teenage girls. Growing up as a girl in today’s world…
Malala
“I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is the story of many girls.” Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban as a young girl in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. For her activism, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in…
Mae Jemison
First African American woman to be selected for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) astronaut training program and was the first African American woman to travel in space. WEBSITES: https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_168.html https://www.space.com/17169-mae-jemison-biography.html https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jemison-Mae.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-Jemison VIDEOS: Books and more………… African American lives [videorecording] Astronaut Mae Jemison Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world …