Inside This 56th Edition:
- Up Next: DBW Events in Detroit + New York City!!!
- Know Her: Dr. Shirley. Ann. Jackson. PERIOD.
- Affirmations: Texts You (Actually) Want to Get (imagine that!)
- DBWs Speak: Advice For Us From Us!
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Cyntoia Brown's team LOVED our encouragement of her. Now that Cyntoia is FREE, her team invited Dear Black Women to see Cyntoia in New York City. The deets:
- Tuesday, Oct 15 @ 6:30PM
- Brooklyn, NY | Won't be in NYC? Forward to a Dear Black Women who will be!
- 10 spots left!
2 days before that, we return with our 27th Affirmation Circle in Detroit. The deets:
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Photo from a Dear Black Women Affirmation Circle
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The name's Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson. And you have to know her. Every time you've screened the call of someone asking for money 🤦🏾♀️or clicked over to a call from your boo, you were using her technology.
Yup, Dr. Jackson was the creator of Call Waiting and Caller ID. But that's not all. Her inventions extend far beyond our phones into the world of physics. That's because Dr. Jackson is a theoretical physicist and only the second Black woman to receive her PhD in Physics in the country, the first from MIT**.
Know more about Dr. Jackson-- her work to get more Black folx into academia, her areas of research and more. Plus, scroll down for how Dear Black Women delivers doses of Black Girl Love to your phone errydyay!
But first...
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**Clears Throat**
DBW's Thoughts on Firsts: Anytime we highlight a Black woman pioneer in a field, we do so knowing that she stands on the shoulders of many, often nameless, Black women. In celebrating her achievement, we are celebrating the ones who made it possible and contribute to a future where our genius never goes unnamed again. Thus, this series "Know Her" and, later a reintroduction to, "We Speak Their Names".
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Texts You (Actually) Want to Get!
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Speaking of your phone. 1 year ago we launched DBW Affirms, our daily affirmation texts for us from us! To celebrate this most momentous occasion, we feature some of our all time favorite affirmation texts and your-- sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartfelt, always welcome-- responses.
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(...Wait. You're not getting our texts. Ummmm, we ain't judging. But let's just say you're missing out. Just know you can always make it right by clicking below.)
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Across the country, 1000's of our fellow DBWs have begun or continued their journeys in school. In Newsletter 54, we asked for you to share advice on how DBWs can walk through this part of their academic journeys as whole, loved and focused as possible.
You answered. See two of our favorite responses thus far.
What would you add?
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DBW Diane Brinson-Days, Eastern Michigan University, B.A. 2019, M. A., 2019
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My advice is never give up!
This may sound crazy but it took me 20 years to finish my bachelors due to financial issues, stopping out, marriage, having a son, but I did it and immediately pursued my masters. You are never too old and it is never too late!
Stop waiting and go after your dreams.
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DBW Crystal S.Campbell, Eastern Michigan University, M.A., 2015
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- Take advantage of all resources available... fellowships, access to research data bases, support groups for Black and POC.
- KNOW IN YOUR BONES that you belong here! Your EXISTENCE in this space IS RESISTANCE!
- Find a mentor and an ally.
- Create something that you can market after- a curriculum, a theory, a product, an app, website, SOMETHING!
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In affirmation of you and Black women everywhere,
The Dear Black Women Movement
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