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In February 2025, 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.

What else?

  • Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
  • If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

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)

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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)
  • 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)
  • São Tomé and Príncipe (WD)
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis (WD)
  • Senegal (WD)
  • South Africa (WD)
  • Tanzania (WD)
  • Togo (WD)
  • Uganda (WD)
  • Zambia (WD)
  • Zimbabwe (WD)

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Participants

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Outcomes (articles)

=New or upgraded articles=

  • Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

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  1. {{flagicon|Nigeria}} {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Camilla George
  1. {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Martina Attille
  2. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Tia Ciata – upgraded
  3. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Dorothy Kamanga
  4. {{flagicon|Rwanda}} Dafroza Gauthier
  5. {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} Élise Thérèse Gamassa
  6. {{flagicon|USA}} Blanche Burton-Lyles
  7. {{flagicon|Niger}} Aminatou Gaoh
  8. {{flagicon|France}} Célimène Gaudieux (also 326/330)
  9. {{flagicon|FRA}} {{flagicon|USA}} Bénédicte Boisseron
  10. {{flagicon|USA}} Celeste Bedford Walker (also 330)
  11. {{flagicon|USA}} Soyica Colbert (also 330)
  12. {{flagicon|USA}} Ella Payne Moran {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  13. {{flagicon|USA}} Anita Bush Stock Company
  14. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Chimwemwe Madise
  15. {{flagicon|USA}} {{flagicon|Canada}} Daughters of Isis – upgraded (also 330)
  16. {{flagicon|Benin}} {{flagicon|France}} Georgiana Viou
  17. {{flagicon|Haiti}} {{flagicon|Senegal}} Jacqueline Scott-Lemoine
  18. {{flagicon|USA}} Constance Ridley Heslip
  19. {{flagicon|Nigeria}}{{flagicon|UK}} Adejoké Bakare fix issues, cleanup and update
  20. {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Wembley Point Woman
  21. {{flagicon|South Africa}} E.K.M. Dido
  22. {{flagicon|Mississippi}} Disappearance of Myra Lewis
  23. {{flagicon|USA}} Jacqueline Van Landingham
  24. {{flagicon|Togo}} Biyémi Brigitte Brym
  25. {{flagicon|USA}} Melba Roy Mouton – upgraded {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  26. {{flagicon|Uganda}} Christine H. Sophie Kabuye
  27. {{flagicon|Zambia}} Emerine Kabanshi
  28. {{flagicon|USA}} Madeline Stratton Morris
  29. {{flagicon|USA}} Thelma Thurston Gorham {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  30. {{flagicon|United States Navy}} Edna Young {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  31. {{flagicon|USA}} Jasmine Taylor
  32. {{flagicon|United States Navy}} Joan Bynum {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  33. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Ivy Kamanga
  34. {{flagicon|USA}} Gertrude Rivers Robinson {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  35. {{flagicon|LBR}} Williametta Saydee-Tarr
  36. {{flagicon|USA}} Ursula Jones Dickson
  37. {{flagicon|United States Army}} Emily Perez fix issues, upgrade add inline citations (start to now B class) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  38. {{flagicon|USA}} Rhoza A. Walker {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  39. {{flagicon|USA}} Mabel Dole Haden (also 330)
  40. {{flagicon|Texas}} Verna Lee Hightower
  41. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Chisomo Ngulube
  42. {{flagicon|Kenya}} Rosemary Karuga – upgraded {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  43. {{flagicon|USA}} Hilda Grayson Finney {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  44. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Lorraine Maphala-Phiri
  45. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Caroline Gombakomba
  46. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Tsitsi Tiripano
  47. {{flagicon|USA}} Florence Beatty-Brown {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  48. {{flagicon|Spain}}{{flagicon|Equatorial Guinea}} Bisila Noha
  49. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Theresa Nyava
  50. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Temwani Chilenga {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  51. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Ayanda Candice Sibanda {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  52. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Jacqueline Gowe
  53. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Rachel Zulu Mazombwe
  54. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Temwa Chawinga upgrade {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  55. {{flagicon|USA}} Helen Webb Harris upg, add infobox, cats, etc.
  56. {{flagicon|Ghana}} Ernestina Edem Appiah upgraded, add picture and cleaned up {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  57. {{flagicon|Paraguay}} Mayeli Villalba
  58. {{flagicon|Zambia}} Women's History Museum of Zambia
  59. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Odessa M. Shannon
  60. {{flagicon|America}} Annie Greene Nelson
  61. {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} Lydie Pongault {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  62. {{flagicon|Mauritania}} Khadijetou Lekweiry
  63. {{flagicon|USA}} Rose Leary Love
  64. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Ramona McCarthy Hawkins
  65. {{flagicon|America}} Danielle Carr Ramdath
  66. {{flagicon|Bahamas}} Erecia Hepburn
  67. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Victoria Kingstone (politician) upgrade
  68. {{flagicon|Rwanda}} Gertrude Kazarwa (also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  69. {{flagicon|The Gambia}} Binta Jammeh-Sidibe (also 327)
  70. {{flagicon|Republic of the Congo}} Sardoine Mia {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  71. {{flagicon|Uganda}} Barbara Allimadi (also 327)
  72. {{flagicon|Uganda}}File:Gay_Pride_Flag.svg Sandra Kwikiriza (also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  73. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Loveness Gondwe upgrade
  74. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Jacquiline Chikuta {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  75. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Theresa Kachindamoto upgrade {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  76. {{flagicon|Missouri}} Tonya Rush
  77. {{flagicon|Oklahoma}} Mary E. Jones Parrish {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  78. {{flagicon|USA}} Josephine Silone Yates upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  79. {{flagicon|USA}} Florida Ruffin Ridley upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  80. {{flagicon|USA}} Alethia Tanner upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  81. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Gabisile Nkosi
  82. {{flagicon|USA}} Ellen Barnes McGinnis
  83. {{flagicon|USA}} Margaree Seawright Crosby
  84. {{flagicon|USA}} Kem Smith
  85. {{flagicon|USA}} Rochelle Walton Gray
  86. {{flagicon|USA}} Chanel Mosley (also 330)
  87. {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Naimi Aziz {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  88. {{flagicon|USA}} Elnora D. Daniel
  89. {{flagicon|USA}} Nannie Mitchell using Notable Black American Women
  90. {{flagicon|USA}} Josie English Wells upgraded using Notable Black American Women
  91. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Gabisile Nkosi (also 327)
  92. {{flagicon|USA}} Loretta Carter Hanes
  93. {{flagicon|USA}} Georgina Falú
  94. {{flagicon|USA}} Stephanie Boykin
  95. {{flagicon|USA}} Donna Barnes
  96. {{flagicon|USA}} Melissa Douglas
  97. {{flagicon|USA}} Tiffany Price
  98. {{flagicon|USA}} Marla Smith
  99. {{flagicon|CAR}} Cécile Bozanga (also 330)
  100. {{flagicon|Nigeria}} Nwamaka Okoye upgraded/reformatted, currently tagged as AfD trying to save
  101. {{flagicon|Congo Free State}} Antoinette Lubaki upgraded – Bsky
  102. {{flagicon|USA}} Paula Giddings upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  103. {{flagicon|USA}} Beverly Johnson upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  104. {{flagicon|USA}} Terry McMillan upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  105. {{flagicon|USA}} Eliza Ann Gardner upgraded using Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  106. {{flagicon|USA}} Mercedes Ellington
  107. {{flagicon|USA}} Sylvia E. Mathis {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  108. {{flagicon|USA}} Cassi Chandler
  109. {{flagicon|USA}} Estelle Pinckney Clough {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  110. {{flagicon|South Sudan}} Julia Aker Duany
  111. {{flagicon|USA}} Willa Brown upgraded using Notable Black American Women
  112. {{flagicon|USA}} Ersa Poston upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  113. {{flagicon|USA}} Susan Elizabeth Frazier upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  114. {{flagicon|USA}} Ramona Edelin upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  115. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Colette Solomon (also 327, 330)
  116. {{flagicon|USA}} Ruby Jean Johnson
  117. {{flagicon|USA}} Gracie's Corner
  118. {{flagicon|MDG}} Anyah
  119. {{flagicon|USA}} La Keisha Jackson
  120. {{flagicon|USA}}Charlotte Moton Hubbard add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  121. {{flagicon|USA}} Jennie B. Moton add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  122. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Susan Dangarembga
  123. {{flagicon|USA}} Princess Wee Wee (also 327)
  124. {{flagicon|USA}} Teresa Adams (also 327)
  125. {{flagicon|USA}} Vivian Ayers Allen (also 327)
  126. {{flagicon|USA}} Sallie Wyatt Stewart new img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  127. {{flagicon|Uganda}} Irene Drusilla Namaganda
  128. {{flagicon|USA}} Camille Cohen Jones {{WIRAP|PIN}} also on WikiQuote
  129. {{flagicon|USA}} Nancy Elizabeth Prophet add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  130. {{flagicon|USA}} Jamie Jackson (Colorado politician)
  131. {{flagicon|Nigeria}}{{flagicon|UK}} Agnes Yewande Savage add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  132. {{flagicon|USA}} Ruth Janetta Temple add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  133. {{flagicon|USA}} Sebetha Lee Jenkins using Notable Black American Women
  134. {{flagicon|Argentina}} María Remedios del Valle – upgraded, images added, Bsky {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  135. {{flagicon|USA}} Sarah Willie Layton add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  136. {{flagicon|USA}} Mary Virginia Cook Parrish add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  137. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Florence Mudzingwa (also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  138. {{flagicon|Cameroon}}{{flagicon|Spain}} Francine Gálvez (also 327)
  139. {{flagicon|DRC}} Pauline Maata Nkumu
  140. {{flagicon|USA}} Nina Mae McKinney add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  141. {{flagicon|USA}} Victoria Spivey add img, {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  142. {{flagicon|USA}} Delia Silance {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  143. {{flagicon|USA}} Alice A. Casneau – upgraded {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  144. {{flagicon|USA}} Florestine Perrault Collins – upgraded {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  145. {{flagicon|Arizona}} Mary Green (settler)
  146. {{flagicon|Arizona}} Helen K. Mason
  147. {{flagicon|Namibia}} Putuse Dwyili-Appolus
  148. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}}{{flagicon|Malawi}}{{flagicon|Rhodesia}} Vida Mungwira
  149. {{flagicon|USA}} blair doroshwalther (did a film on Black history; also 330)
  150. {{flagicon|Tunisia}} Nejiba Hamrouni (also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  151. {{flagicon|USA}} Carrie Barnes Ross
  152. {{flagicon|Ethiopia}} Kidist Hailu Degaffe (also 327, 330) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  153. {{flagicon|USA}} Alice Whitman (dancer)
  154. {{flagicon|USA}} Anissa Jones (politician)
  155. {{flagicon|USA}} Arlene Beckles
  156. {{flagicon|USA}} Sylvia Wayfer Baker
  157. {{flagicon|USA}} Mekyah McQueen
  158. {{flagicon|South Sudan}} Josephine Napwon Cosmas (also 330)
  159. {{flagicon|USA}} Dianaruthe Wharton (also 326/330)
  160. {{flagicon|USA}} Thelma Hill (dancer)
  161. {{flagicon|USA}} Gladys Barker Grauer
  162. {{flagicon|CIV}} Mariam Diakité (expanded, also 327)
  163. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Terry West (also 327)
  164. {{flagicon|Brazil}} Deise Nunes (also 327, 330) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  165. {{flagicon|Zambia}} Nina Tapula
  166. {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Chipo Matimba (also 327, 330)
  167. {{flagicon|Ethiopia}} Shewalul Mengistu (also 327)
  168. {{flagicon|Ethiopia}} Alem Tsahai Iyasu (also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  169. {{flagicon|Maryland}}File:Gay_Pride_Flag.svg Ebony Thompson
  170. {{flagicon|Equatorial Guinea}} Rusly Cachina Esapa
  171. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Karla Smith
  172. {{flagicon|USA}} Frances Berry Coston {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  173. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Sheila R. Tillerson Adams (also 327)
  174. {{flagicon|Maryland}} Alice G. Pollard Clark (also 327, 330)
  175. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Ursula Chikane (also 327, 330)
  176. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu (also 327)
  177. {{flagicon|PAN}} Marta Cox (expanded, also 327) {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  178. {{flagicon|USA}} Jean Coston Maloney {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  179. {{flagicon|USA}} Gwendolyn Calvert Baker
  180. {{flagicon|USA}} Myra Colson Callis
  181. {{flagicon|South Africa}} Elizabeth Komikie Gumede (also 327)
  182. {{flagicon|USA}} Julia Jacobs
  183. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Bertha Mackenzie Ndebele
  184. {{flagicon|NGA}} Regina Otu
  185. {{flagicon|USA}} Lorenza Jordan Cole {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  186. {{flagicon|USA}} Carolyn Downs (activist) (also 330)
  187. {{flagicon|DRC}} Annie Sinanduku Mwange – translated
  188. {{flagicon|USA}} Guerline Jozef {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  189. {{flagicon|USA}} Ethel Caution-Davis {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  190. {{flagicon|USA}} Lillie Maie Hubbard {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  191. {{flagicon|USA}} Clara Burrill Bruce {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  192. {{flagicon|USA}} Effie Lee Newsome – add infobox
  193. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Joanna Kachilika upgrade
  194. {{flagicon|United States}} Catherine Seals
  195. {{flagicon|United States}} Hetty Burr
  196. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Tusayiwe Mkhondya {{WIRAP|PIN}}
  197. {{flagicon|Malawi}} Grace Malera
  198. {{flagicon|Haiti}} Widline Cadet
  199. {{flagicon|United States}} Viola Burley Leak
  200. {{flagicon|United States}} Paulette Childress
  201. {{flagicon|United States}} Brenda Wilkinson
  202. {{flagicon|Jamaica}} Clover Graham
  203. {{flagicon|Canada}} Christina Leslie

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