Black Women History-Makers Deserve Their Flowers

By Aswad Walker | The Houston Defender | Word In Black This& post& was originally published on& Defender Network Callie Guy House. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. (WIB) – I’m not going to hit you over the head with my usual “Black women are the mothers of all humanity” soliloquy (which they are), because we shouldn’t need a rah-rah inspirational message to get us on board with honoring Black women and their transgenerational contributions to humanity. That said, I did want to share the names of seven sisters, most who did the majority of their work in the U.S. (and in within the past two centuries), whose impact on our people and the world has been so overwhelming that it’s almost criminal that they are rarely mentioned and studied in classrooms, faith congregations, and community gatherings. In so many ways, had it not been for them, we would not be. Ella Baker “If one were to make a list of the most famous figures of the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the rest of the names that white people know, one humbly modest statement encapsulates the life of Ella Josephine Baker: She is more important than...