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Black women editathon
Online event February 2024
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Black women
February 2024

Recently completed:	Women in Sports Indigenous women Film and stage
New this month:	Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A - H
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education Translation
Upcoming events:	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).[1],[2], [3],[4]
• 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 [5],[6]
• Charlot Kristensen, visual artist and comic creator [7]
• 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)

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. Phebe Hayes
2. Vivienne Newton Gray - PIN
3. Alyne Dumas Lee - PIN
4. African Methodist Episcopal women preachers
5. Denise Charles
6. Christine Benton Cash - PIN
7. Amélia Mingas (also 294)
8. Marjorie Pitter King - added image, PIN
9. Carrie Still Shepperson - PIN
10. Paula Cardoso (also 297)
11. Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma
12. Dinah Whipple
13. Carrie Burton Overton - PIN
14. Lyda Moore Merrick
15. Brenda Swann Holmes - PIN
16. Ana Cardoso (enslaved woman)
17. Denice Santiago - PIN
18. Andrea Lykke Oehlenschlæger (also 297)
19. Saba (singer)
20. Leïla Sy
21. W. Gertrude Brown - PIN
22. Mari Malek
23. Susan Wakhungu-Githuku
24. Miss Diddy
25. Tomikia P. LeGrande (also 294/297)
26. Dominga Lucía Molina
27. Nicole Pride (also 294/297)
28. Geraldine Peten - added image, PIN
29. Katherine J. Boskins Barr - PIN
30. Soraya Milla - PIN
31. Vivian Schuyler Key, expanded
32. Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House
33. Denise Ferreira da Silva - PIN
34. Wezlynn Tildon - PIN
35. Liesl Zühlke (also 294) - PIN
36. Christine Johnson McPhail (also 294)
37. Gisela Casimiro
38. Anne Shongwe
39. Stacey Franklin Jones (also 294)
40. Georgia L. McMurray
41. Lillie Patterson - added image, PIN
42. Rougui Dia
43. Louise Parrott Cochran - PIN
44. Karrie G. Dixon (also 294)
45. Bertha LaBranche Johnson - PIN
46. Dana Tippin Cutler
47. Frances Rains - PIN
48. Thereza Piloya (also 294/297)
49. Flávia Oliveira (also 293), PIN
50. Dinha do Acarajé (also 293) - PIN
51. Yalemtsehay Mekonnen (also 294)
52. Annie Walker Blackwell - PIN
53. Pholile Shakantu (also 297) TW, PIN
54. Tendai Moyo
55. Enass Muzamel
56. Marguerite Pétro-Koni-Zezé (also 293)
57. Safiya George (also 294)
58. Patricia Hardaway (also 294/297)
59. Wilma Mishoe (also 294)
60. Scholastica Kimaryo
61. Florence "Frankie" Adams - added image TW - PIN
62. Anita Turpeau Anderson - PIN TW
63. Ibijoke Faborode
64. Molly Gaskin
65. Renita Holmes
66. Leonne Theodore-John - PIN TW
67. Susan Chomba
68. Esi Buobasa
69. Mary Black (Arizona)
70. Vernell Coleman
71. Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan (also 294/297)
72. Alyce Fraser Denny - PIN
73. Mary Garnet Barboza Women of Distinction
74. Marguerite Frierson - PIN
75. Lillian Steele Proctor (also 297)
76. Dulce Pereira (also 293) - PIN
77. Latonia Moore - upgraded
78. Ivy Baxter
79. Kristen Lovell
80. Josephine Harreld Love
81. Oda Gasinzigwa (also 297)
82. Tchinda Andrade
83. Julia Jeter Cleckley
84. Johanna July
85. Lola N. Vassall - PIN
86. Rosemarie Freeney Harding - PIN
87. Picramnia antidesma
88. Ana Rita Santiago (also 293)
89. Samira Sabou
90. Juanita Ellsworth Miller - PIN
91. Sylvia Olden Lee - added image, PIN
92. Emma Kantema-Gaomas
93. Jane Dabney Shackelford - PIN
94. Natalia ǀGoagoses
95. Shennette Garrett-Scott (also 294)
96. Gladys L. Catchings - PIN
97. Josephine Lemoyan
98. Altamira Cecília dos Santos (also 293) - PIN
99. Ruth Braswell Jones - PIN
100. Petita Palma and 297 TW - PIN
101. Carla Akotirene (also 293)
102. JoNina Abron-Ervin (also 294)
103. Upile Chisala
104. Venice Tipton Spraggs
105. Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (also 293) - PIN
106. Mo-Mamo Karerwa
107. Wendy Phipps (also 297) TW
108. Veora Johnson
109. Eva C. Mitchell - PIN
110. Ethna Beulah Winston - PIN
111. Anna W. Ludlow - PIN
112. Alice Callis Hunter
113. Mary Evans Wilson - added free img, PIN
114. Yolande Du Bois - added img, infobox, PIN
115. Deirdre Cooper Owens (also 294/297)
116. Mae Virginia Cowdery - added img, PIN
117. Eulalie Spence - added img, PIN
118. Georgia Caldwell Smith -added img, PIN
119. Jane Ellen McAllister -added img, infobox, PIN
120. Sarah Kamya
121. Auzerais Bellamy
122. Safe House Black History Museum

No results were found.

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

• 
  Carrie Still Shepperson
• 
  Carrie Burton Overton
• 
  Brenda Swann Holmes
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  Karrie G. Dixon
• 
  Louise Parrott Cochran
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  Bertha LaBranche Johnson
• 
  Annie Walker Blackwell
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  Anita Turpeau Anderson
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  Alyce Fraser Denny
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  Lola N. Vassall
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  Juanita Ellsworth Miller
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  Gladys L. Catchings
• 
  Lucia Posso
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  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 Chapman
• 
  Georgia Caldwell Smith
• 
  Jane Ellen McAllister

Event templates

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