The fall is a time of harvest celebrations. It is a time of feasting and family gatherings. It is also a time of storytelling – some about families, others about American history. One of the biggest of these stories is played out every November in elementary classrooms across the United States. It involves costumes. Typically, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘business woman’
July 14, 2011
Still Dancing Through Life at 93
At 93 Therrell Camille Smith keeps everyone on their toes. She’s still teaching ballet in a school she established 60 plus years ago in her hometown of Washington D.C. The second of five daughters Ms Smith began taking dance lessons at the age of 8. Her teacher was the wife of a Howard University physician. [...]
November 11, 2010
What Does South America Have That The US Doesn’t? Women Presidents!
You’ve probably heard the US lags behind other countries in a variety of areas. For example, the life expectancy for American men and women between 45-65 ranks behind 12 other industrialized nations including Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom. Our high school students don’t measure up either in science and math, and our country [...]
April 16, 2010
Bold Action by Woman Empowers a Village Against Violence
A women’s worth continues to be undervalued. According to a March 2010 fact sheet put out by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research the median weekly earnings of female full-time workers were $657, compared with male median weekly earnings of $819. Based on these data, the ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly earnings was [...]
April 5, 2010
Clothes That Work – Empowering Women with Clothes
I had no doubt what I was going to do with my mother’s clothes after she died in 2008. My mother had impeccable taste in clothes. She liked the best. She was also a shopaholic well beyond her 90th birthday. The most fitting place for her beautiful clothes, I believed, was Clothes That Work. Clothes [...]
March 13, 2010
Yvrose Jean Baptiste
Yvrose Jean Baptiste has only a fifth grade education, yet she has a head for figures. Yvrose was a small-time wholesaler before the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. Before the earthquake Yvrose borrowed money from a microcredit bank. Every two weeks she’d take a bus to the Haitian border [...]
