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Black women
February 2024

Recently completed:	Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M
New this month:	Indigenous women Alphabet run: Countries starting with N and O Women born before 1900
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events:	Women writers & their works Alphabet run: Countries starting with P, Q & R Women Labor Activists Ideas

Welcome!

In February 2024, 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 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 (WD) Black history (CS) Black women in Food History (CS) Black women in the Visual Arts (WD) Indigenous women (CS) Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias BlackPast (WD) Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (CS) Dictionary of African Biography (WD) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) Notable Black American Women (CS) (WD) Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (CS) Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) Women of Distinction (WD) 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:

• Lots of women in East African Legislative Assembly who could be written if sources can be found.
• Gee Bernard (1934–2016), first Black councillor in Croydon and member of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).,, ,
• Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health
• Dominique Leach
• Washington, D.C. health directors:
  • Sharon Lewis <-- Needs disambiguator
  • Ayanna Bennett
• Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining ,
• Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator
• Jill Jerold first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.

Participants

• Curbon7 (talk) 20:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
• ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
• SusunW (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
• PigeonChickenFish (talk) 02:36, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Puppies937 (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• Eventhisacronym (talk) 03:52, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• Grnrchst (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 16:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
• PamD 08:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Roundtheworld (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• Fernushki (talk) 19:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
• EponineBunnyKickQueen (talk) 19:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
• Rubystaramaryllis (talk) 20:06, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 19:46, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
• Citrivescence (talk) 04:17, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
• — scribblingwoman 20:14, 11 March 2024 (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. Anna Minerva Henderson (added photo) (also 294)
2. Angela Elayne Gibbs
3. Daiana Santos
4. Denise Hinton - PIN
5. Dominique Leach
6. Chandra G. Pitts
7. Betty Fairfax
8. Ersa Poston - added image, PIN
9. Jeninah Karungi (also 294)
10. RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (also WIR 294)
11. Lula Warlick - PIN
12. Roberta Clarke (also 299)Round the World challenge - PIN
13. Ana Fabricia Córdoba
14. Olivene Chambers (also 294, 297)
15. Kate Bradley Stovall - PIN
16. Thainara Faria - PIN
17. Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate - PIN (also 294, 297)
18. Karen Schuster Webb (also 294)
19. Esther Merle Jackson (also 294)
20. Fahima Hashim
21. Imagene Stewart - PIN
22. Jennie Joseph
23. Norah Olembo (also WIR 297) - PIN
24. Harriette Estelle Harris Presley - PIN
25. Sarah A. Hughes
26. Jacqline - PIN
27. Dani Balbi - PIN
28. Zélia Amador
29. Cornelia Read
30. Vilma Reis - PIN
31. Phebe Hayes
32. Vivienne Newton Gray - PIN
33. Alyne Dumas Lee - PIN
34. African Methodist Episcopal women preachers
35. Denise Charles
36. Christine Benton Cash - PIN
37. Amélia Mingas (also 294)
38. Marjorie Pitter King - added image, PIN
39. Carrie Still Shepperson - PIN
40. Paula Cardoso (also 297)
41. Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
42. Dinah Whipple
43. Carrie Burton Overton - PIN
44. Lyda Moore Merrick
45. Brenda Swann Holmes - PIN
46. Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
47. Denice Santiago - PIN
48. Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (also 297)
49. Saba (singer)
50. Leïla Sy
51. W. Gertrude Brown - PIN
52. Mari Malek
53. Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
54. Miss Diddy
55. Tomikia P. LeGrande (also 294/297)
56. Dominga Lucía Molina
57. Nicole Pride (also 294/297)
58. Geraldine Peten - added image, PIN
59. Katherine J. Boskins Barr - PIN
60. Soraya Milla - PIN
61. Vivian Schuyler Key, expanded
62. Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
63. Denise Ferreira da Silva - PIN
64. Wezlynn Tildon - PIN
65. Liesl Zühlke (also 294) - PIN
66. Christine Johnson McPhail (also 294)
67. Gisela Casimiro
68. Anne Shongwe
69. Stacey Franklin Jones (also 294)
70. Georgia L. McMurray
71. Lillie Patterson - added image, PIN
72. Rougui Dia
73. Louise Parrott Cochran - PIN
74. Karrie G. Dixon (also 294)
75. Bertha LaBranche Johnson - PIN
76. Dana Tippin Cutler
77. Frances Rains - PIN
78. Thereza Piloya (also 294/297)
79. Flávia Oliveira (also 293), PIN
80. Dinha do Acarajé (also 293) - PIN
81. Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (also 294)
82. Annie Walker Blackwell - PIN
83. Pholile Shakantu (also 297) TW, PIN
84. Tendai Moyo
85. Enass Muzamel
86. Marguerite Pétro-Koni-Zezé (also 293)
87. Safiya George (also 294)
88. Patricia Hardaway (also 294/297)
89. Wilma Mishoe (also 294)
90. Scholastica Kimaryo
91. Florence "Frankie" Adams - added image TW - PIN
92. Anita Turpeau Anderson - PIN TW
93. Ibijoke Faborode
94. Molly Gaskin
95. Renita Holmes
96. Leonne Theodore-John - PIN TW
97. Susan Chomba
98. Esi Buobasa
99. Mary Black (Arizona)
100. Vernell Coleman
101. Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan (also 294/297)
102. Alyce Fraser Denny - PIN
103. Mary Garnet Barboza Women of Distinction
104. Marguerite Frierson - PIN
105. Lillian Steele Proctor (also 297)
106. Dulce Pereira (also 293) - PIN
107. Latonia Moore - upgraded
108. Ivy Baxter
109. Kristen Lovell
110. Josephine Harreld Love
111. Oda Gasinzigwa (also 297)
112. Tchinda Andrade
113. Julia Jeter Cleckley
114. Johanna July
115. Lola N. Vassall - PIN
116. Rosemarie Freeney Harding - PIN
117. Picramnia antidesma
118. Ana Rita Santiago (also 293)
119. Samira Sabou
120. Juanita Ellsworth Miller - PIN
121. Sylvia Olden Lee - added image, PIN
122. Emma Kantema-Gaomas
123. Jane Dabney Shackelford - PIN
124. Natalia ǀGoagoses
125. Shennette Garrett-Scott (also 294)
126. Gladys L. Catchings - PIN
127. Josephine Lemoyan
128. Altamira Cecília dos Santos (also 293) - PIN
129. Ruth Braswell Jones - PIN
130. Petita Palma and 297 TW - PIN
131. Carla Akotirene (also 293)
132. JoNina Abron-Ervin (also 294)
133. Upile Chisala
134. Venice Tipton Spraggs
135. Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (also 293) - PIN
136. Mo-Mamo Karerwa
137. Wendy Phipps (also 297) TW
138. Veora Johnson
139. Eva C. Mitchell - PIN
140. Ethna Beulah Winston - PIN
141. Anna W. Ludlow - PIN
142. Alice Callis Hunter
143. Mary Evans Wilson - added free img, PIN
144. Yolande Du Bois - added img, infobox, PIN
145. Deirdre Cooper Owens (also 294/297)
146. Mae Virginia Cowdery - added img, PIN
147. Eulalie Spence - added img, PIN
148. Georgia Caldwell Smith -added img, PIN
149. Jane Ellen McAllister -added img, infobox, PIN
150. Sarah Kamya
151. Auzerais Bellamy
152. Safe House Black History Museum

Did you know? articles

• ... that Esther Merle Jackson, as a specialist in theatre and dance education at the United States Office of Education, intended to expand theater's role in the Great Society? (2024-03-31)
• ... that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum (pictured) was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated? (2024-03-21)
• ... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly? (2024-03-13)
• ... that Enass Muzamel established the Sudanese Female Cyclists Initiative to challenge the stigma against women riding bikes in Sudan? (2024-03-10)

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024

Add here – most recent at the top

• 
  Anna Minerva Henderson
• 
  Denise Hinton
• 
  Lula Warlick
• 
  Imagene Stewart
• 
  Anne Shongwe
• 
  Oda Gasinzigwa
• 
  Carrie Still Shepperson
• 
  Carrie Burton Overton
• 
  Brenda Swann Holmes
• 
  Karrie G. Dixon
• 
  Louise Parrott Cochran
• 
  Bertha LaBranche Johnson
• 
  Annie Walker Blackwell
• 
  Anita Turpeau Anderson
• 
  Alyce Fraser Denny
• 
  Lola N. Vassall
• 
  Juanita Ellsworth Miller
• 
  Gladys L. Catchings
• 
  Lucia Posso
• 
  Ethna Beulah Winston
• 
  Eva C. Mitchell
• 
  Roberta Randolph DeMar
• 
  Easther Mayi Kith of Cameroon and Reading
• 
  Diana Salazar Méndez of Ecuador
• 
  Mary Evans Wilson
• 
  Yolande Du Bois
• 
  Mae Virginia Cowdery
• 
  Eulalie Spence
• 
  Jane Dabney Shackelford
• 
  Marguerite Frierson
• 
  Minerva France
• 
  Eulacie Shamberger Chatman
• 
  Georgia Caldwell Smith
• 
  Jane Ellen McAllister

Event templates

• Invitation: February 2024
• Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-298: {{WIR-298}}