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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.

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=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:

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  • 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==

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  • 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)

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There are also individual lists which incorporate Black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include:

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  • 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)

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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).[https://news.croydon.gov.uk/hon-alderwoman-gee-bernard/],[https://insidecroydon.com/2016/12/10/croydon-pioneer-gee-bernard-will-be-sorely-missed/], [http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/croydons-first-black-councillor-passes-away],[https://web.archive.org/web/20230216145422/https://collections.blackculturalarchives.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/1784]
  • Brooke Cunningham Health Commissioner Minnesota Department of Health[https://www.astho.org/globalassets/pdf/bios/minnesota-sho.pdf Brooke Cunningham]
  • Dominique Leach{{cite web |title=DOMINIQUE LEACH |url=https://www.chicagogourmet.org/page/DominiqueLeach |website=Chicago Gourmet |access-date=29 October 2022}}
  • Washington, D.C. health directors:
  • Sharon Lewis[https://web.archive.org/web/20230201124339/https://www.astho.org/globalassets/pdf/bios/district-of-columbia-sho.pdf Sharon Lewis] <-- Needs disambiguator
  • Ayanna Bennett[https://www.astho.org/globalassets/pdf/bios/district-of-columbia-sho.pdf Ayanna Bennett]
  • Mary Anne Smith, (née Spencer, 1917-2001) 1st Black real estate agent in San Jose, California, worked to eliminate redlining [https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=X001AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA76&dq=redlining%20in%20San%20Jose&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q=redlining%20in%20San%20Jose&f=false],[https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/smith-mary-ann-spencer-1917-2001/]
  • Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator [https://bardotbrush.com/charlot-kristensen/]
  • {{ill|Jill Jerold|es}} first ever black female character to appear in a Marvel comic book.

Participants

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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

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  1. {{flagicon|CAN}} Anna Minerva Henderson (added photo) (also 294)
  2. {{flagicon|USA}} Angela Elayne Gibbs
  3. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Daiana Santos
  4. {{flagicon|USA}} Denise Hinton - PIN
  5. {{flagicon|USA}} Dominique Leach
  6. {{flagicon|USA}} Chandra G. Pitts
  7. {{flagicon|USA}} Betty Fairfax
  8. {{flagicon|USA}} Ersa Poston - added image, PIN
  9. {{flagicon|UGA}} Jeninah Karungi (also 294)
  10. {{flagicon|Ghana}} RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (also WIR 294)
  11. {{flagicon|USA}} Lula Warlick - PIN
  12. {{flagicon|Barbados}} Roberta Clarke (also 299)Round the World challenge - PIN
  13. {{flagicon|Colombia}} Ana Fabricia Córdoba
  14. {{flagicon|Jamaica}} Olivene Chambers (also 294, 297)
  15. {{flagicon|USA}} Kate Bradley Stovall - PIN
  16. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Thainara Faria - PIN
  17. {{flagicon|USA}} Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate - PIN (also 294, 297)
  18. {{flagicon|USA}} Karen Schuster Webb (also 294)
  19. {{flagicon|USA}} Esther Merle Jackson (also 294)
  20. {{flagicon|Sudan}} Fahima Hashim
  21. {{flagicon|USA}} Imagene Stewart - PIN
  22. {{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|UK}} Jennie Joseph
  23. {{flagicon|Kenya}} Norah Olembo (also WIR 297) - PIN
  24. {{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|Liberia}} Harriette Estelle Harris Presley - PIN
  25. {{flagicon|USA}} Sarah A. Hughes
  26. {{flagicon|Sweden}} Jacqline - PIN
  27. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Dani Balbi - PIN
  28. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Zélia Amador
  29. {{flagicon|USA}} Cornelia Read
  30. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Vilma Reis - PIN
  31. {{flagicon|USA}} Phebe Hayes
  32. {{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|Liberia}} Vivienne Newton Gray - PIN
  33. {{flagicon|USA}} Alyne Dumas Lee - PIN
  34. African Methodist Episcopal women preachers
  35. {{flagicon|Dominica}} Denise Charles
  36. {{flagicon|USA}} Christine Benton Cash - PIN
  37. {{Flagicon|Angola}} Amélia Mingas (also 294)
  38. {{flagicon|USA}} Marjorie Pitter King - added image, PIN
  39. {{flagicon|USA}} Carrie Still Shepperson - PIN
  40. {{Flagicon|Mozambique}}{{flagicon|Portugal}} Paula Cardoso (also 297)
  41. {{flagicon|Comoros}} Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
  42. {{flagicon|USA}} Dinah Whipple
  43. {{flagicon|USA}} Carrie Burton Overton - PIN
  44. {{flagicon|USA}} Lyda Moore Merrick
  45. {{flagicon|USA}} Brenda Swann Holmes - PIN
  46. {{flagicon|Costa Rica}} Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
  47. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Denice Santiago - PIN
  48. {{flagicon|Denmark}} Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (also 297)
  49. {{flagicon|Denmark}} Saba (singer)
  50. {{flagicon|France}} Leïla Sy
  51. {{flagicon|USA}} W. Gertrude Brown - PIN
  52. {{flagicon|South Sudan}} Mari Malek
  53. {{flagicon|Kenya}} Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
  54. {{flagicon|USA}} Miss Diddy
  55. {{flagicon|USA}} Tomikia P. LeGrande (also 294/297)
  56. {{flagicon|Argentina}} Dominga Lucía Molina
  57. {{flagicon|USA}} Nicole Pride (also 294/297)
  58. {{flagicon|USA}} Geraldine Peten - added image, PIN
  59. {{flagicon|USA}} Katherine J. Boskins Barr - PIN
  60. {{flagicon|France}}{{flagicon|Cameroon}}{{flagicon|Benin}} Soraya Milla - PIN
  61. {{flagicon|USA}} Vivian Schuyler Key, expanded
  62. {{flagicon|USA}} Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
  63. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Denise Ferreira da Silva - PIN
  64. {{flagicon|USA}} Wezlynn Tildon - PIN
  65. {{flagicon|RSA}} Liesl Zühlke (also 294) - PIN
  66. {{flagicon|USA}} Christine Johnson McPhail (also 294)
  67. {{flagicon|Guinea Bissau}}{{flagicon|Portugal}} Gisela Casimiro
  68. {{flagicon|Kenya}}{{flagicon|South Africa}} Anne Shongwe
  69. {{flagicon|USA}} Stacey Franklin Jones (also 294)
  70. {{flagicon|USA}} Georgia L. McMurray
  71. {{flagicon|USA}} Lillie Patterson - added image, PIN
  72. {{flagicon|France}} {{flagicon|USA}} Rougui Dia
  73. {{flagicon|USA}} Louise Parrott Cochran - PIN
  74. {{flagicon|USA}} Karrie G. Dixon (also 294)
  75. {{flagicon|USA}} Bertha LaBranche Johnson - PIN
  76. {{flagicon|USA}} Dana Tippin Cutler
  77. {{flagicon|USA}} Frances Rains - PIN
  78. {{flagicon|UGA}} Thereza Piloya (also 294/297)
  79. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Flávia Oliveira (also 293), PIN
  80. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Dinha do Acarajé (also 293) - PIN
  81. {{flagicon|ETH}} Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (also 294)
  82. {{flagicon|USA}} Annie Walker Blackwell - PIN
  83. {{flagicon|Eswatini}} Pholile Shakantu (also 297) [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1756641236478201862 TW], PIN
  84. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}}{{flagicon|UK}} Tendai Moyo
  85. {{flagicon|Sudan}} Enass Muzamel
  86. {{flagicon|Central African Republic}} Marguerite Pétro-Koni-Zezé (also 293)
  87. {{flagicon|USA}} Safiya George (also 294)
  88. {{flagicon|USA}} Patricia Hardaway (also 294/297)
  89. {{flagicon|USA}} Wilma Mishoe (also 294)
  90. {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Scholastica Kimaryo
  91. {{flagicon|USA}} Florence "Frankie" Adams - added image [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1756641236478201862 TW] - PIN
  92. {{flagicon|USA}} Anita Turpeau Anderson - PIN [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1756641236478201862 TW]
  93. {{flagicon|Nigeria}} Ibijoke Faborode
  94. {{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} Molly Gaskin
  95. {{flagicon|USA}} Renita Holmes
  96. {{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} Leonne Theodore-John - PIN [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1756641236478201862 TW]
  97. {{flagicon|Kenya}} Susan Chomba
  98. {{flagicon|Ghana}} Esi Buobasa
  99. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Black (Arizona)
  100. {{flagicon|USA}} Vernell Coleman
  101. {{flagicon|NGA}} Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan (also 294/297)
  102. {{flagicon|Guyana}}{{flagicon|USA}} Alyce Fraser Denny - PIN
  103. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Garnet Barboza Women of Distinction
  104. {{flagicon|USA}} Marguerite Frierson - PIN
  105. {{flagicon|USA}} Lillian Steele Proctor (also 297)
  106. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Dulce Pereira (also 293) - PIN
  107. {{flagicon|USA}} Latonia Moore - upgraded
  108. {{flagicon|Jamaica}} Ivy Baxter
  109. {{flagicon|USA}} Kristen Lovell
  110. {{flagicon|USA}} Josephine Harreld Love
  111. {{flagicon|Rwanda}} Oda Gasinzigwa (also 297)
  112. {{Flagicon|Cape Verde}} Tchinda Andrade
  113. {{flagicon|USA}} Julia Jeter Cleckley
  114. {{flagicon|USA}} Johanna July
  115. {{flagicon|Jamaica}}{{flagicon|USA}} Lola N. Vassall - PIN
  116. {{flagicon|USA}} Rosemarie Freeney Harding - PIN
  117. {{flagicon|Jamaica}} Picramnia antidesma
  118. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Ana Rita Santiago (also 293)
  119. {{flagicon|Niger}} Samira Sabou
  120. {{flagicon|USA}} Juanita Ellsworth Miller - PIN
  121. {{flagicon|USA}} Sylvia Olden Lee - added image, PIN
  122. {{flagicon|NAM}} Emma Kantema-Gaomas
  123. {{flagicon|USA}} Jane Dabney Shackelford - PIN
  124. {{flagicon|NAM}} Natalia ǀGoagoses
  125. {{flagicon|USA}} Shennette Garrett-Scott (also 294)
  126. {{flagicon|USA}} Gladys L. Catchings - PIN
  127. {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Josephine Lemoyan
  128. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Altamira Cecília dos Santos (also 293) - PIN
  129. {{flagicon|USA}} Ruth Braswell Jones - PIN
  130. {{flagicon|Ecuador}} Petita Palma and 297 [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1753559428232544320 TW] - PIN
  131. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Carla Akotirene (also 293)
  132. {{flagicon|USA}} JoNina Abron-Ervin (also 294)
  133. {{flagicon|Malawi}}Upile Chisala
  134. {{flagicon|USA}} Venice Tipton Spraggs
  135. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (also 293) - PIN
  136. {{flagicon|Burundi}} Mo-Mamo Karerwa
  137. {{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} Wendy Phipps (also 297) [https://twitter.com/WikiWomenInRed/status/1753365508345204984 TW]
  138. {{flagicon|USA}} Veora Johnson
  139. {{flagicon|USA}} Eva C. Mitchell - PIN
  140. {{flagicon|USA}} Ethna Beulah Winston - PIN
  141. {{flagicon|USA}} Anna W. Ludlow - PIN
  142. {{flagicon|USA}} Alice Callis Hunter
  143. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Evans Wilson - added free img, PIN
  144. {{flagicon|USA}} Yolande Du Bois - added img, infobox, PIN
  145. {{flagicon|USA}} Deirdre Cooper Owens (also 294/297)
  146. {{flagicon|USA}} Mae Virginia Cowdery - added img, PIN
  147. {{flagicon|USA}} Eulalie Spence - added img, PIN
  148. {{flagicon|USA}} Georgia Caldwell Smith -added img, PIN
  149. {{flagicon|USA}} Jane Ellen McAllister -added img, infobox, PIN
  150. {{Flagicon|USA}} Sarah Kamya
  151. {{Flagicon|USA}} Auzerais Bellamy
  152. Safe House Black History Museum

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  • ... 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: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_supported_by_WikiProject_Women_in_Red_-_2024 Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2024]

'''Add here – most recent at the top

Anna Minerva Henderson SJHS.jpg|Anna Minerva Henderson

Rear Admiral Denise Hinton (two-star).jpg|Denise Hinton

LulaWarlick1927.png|Lula Warlick

ImageneBStewart1981.png|Imagene Stewart

Anne Shongwe (8005676231) (cropped).jpg|Anne Shongwe

Oda Gasinzigwa at Women’s Legal Rights Initiative Rwanda conference.jpg|Oda Gasinzigwa

CarrieStillShepperson1890s.png|Carrie Still Shepperson

CarrieBurtonOverton1927.png|Carrie Burton Overton

BrendaSwannHolmes1980.png|Brenda Swann Holmes

Karrie Dixon (cropped).png|Karrie G. Dixon

LouiseParrottCochran1928.png|Louise Parrott Cochran

BerthaLaBrancheJohnson1924.png|Bertha LaBranche Johnson

AnnieWalkerBlackwell1912.png|Annie Walker Blackwell

AnitaTurpeauAnderson1925.png|Anita Turpeau Anderson

AlyceFraserDenny1927.png|Alyce Fraser Denny

LolaNVassall1928.png|Lola N. Vassall

JuanitaEllsworthMiller1928.png|Juanita Ellsworth Miller

GladysLCatchings1928.png|Gladys L. Catchings

Lucia Posso 6R7A8771 (53501536272).jpg|Lucia Posso

EthnaBeulahWinston1928.png|Ethna Beulah Winston

EvaCMitchell1928.png| Eva C. Mitchell

RobertaRandolphDeMar1928.png|Roberta Randolph DeMar

Easther Mayi Kith Reading Women 28 01 2024 (sq cropped).jpg|Easther Mayi Kith of Cameroon and Reading

Diana Salazar 25 DE ENERO DEL 2024 (53) (sq cropped).jpg|Diana Salazar Méndez of Ecuador

MaryEvansWilson1928.png|Mary Evans Wilson

YolandeDuBois1928.png|Yolande Du Bois

MaeVirginiaCowdery1928.png|Mae Virginia Cowdery

EulalieSpence1928.png|Eulalie Spence

JaneDabneyShackleford1928.png|Jane Dabney Shackelford

MargueriteFrierson1928.png|Marguerite Frierson

MinervaFrance1928.png|Minerva France

EulacieShambergerChapman1928.png|Eulacie Shamberger Chatman

GeorgiaCaldwellSmith1928.png|Georgia Caldwell Smith

JaneEllenMcAllister1928.png|Jane Ellen McAllister

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