Vernida R. Chaney Biography Vernida R. Chaney, a native of Richmond, is the owner and manager of Chaney Law Firm, PLLC. The firm concentrates on criminal defense, juvenile advocacy, civil protective orders, and elder law throughout Northern and Central Virginia. She has extensive experience before the state and appellate courts of Virginia, as well as the federal courts in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Ms. Chaney is an accomplished attorney who is devoted to representing the underserved and most vulnerable communities.
The Story of Maci Kean When you think of people in a kid’s life, you probably imagine two parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. What you don’t typically think is a social worker, a judge, foster homes and a dead mother and father. This became the case for the then 15-year Maci Kean, as well as over 100,000 kids in the United States. When Maci was just a toddler, she became deaf due to a high fever and her father passed away when she was just two due to drug abuse. When she was around the age of 13 her mother passed away as well due to a drug overdose after getting out of jail.
I Would Choose to Spend a Day With Desi Arnaz Desiderio Alberto Arnaz III was a Cuban actor and musician. He is probably most known for starring in I Love Lucy, a Popular television series in the 1950s, with his wife Lucille Ball. Desi Arnaz moved from Cuba to Miami in 1934, when he was seventeen years old. He started off cleaning bird cages for his first job, but he really had a talent for acting and music. He made his own bands, and eventually made it to Broadway in the play, “Too many Girls” and then to Hollywood in the film version.
This book was her purpose to continue the fight for equality and injustice that African Americans go
Susan B. Anthony was born into a Quaker family, with the hope that everyone would one day be treated equal. She denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman(Susan B. Anthony). From this point on, she knew that she needed to make a change. Susan B. Anthony, because of her intense work involving women 's’ rights, highly influenced all of the societies and beliefs that were yet to come. She employed a huge role in our history because of the fact that she advocated for women’s rights, for the integration of women in the workforce, and for the abolition of slavery.
Along with stories about of her mother weaving clothes and how the children were allowed to play in the evenings after they were done helping in the field. These stories make this document real and relatable to someone reading about her today, making her message
True Self Lorna Simpson was born in Brooklyn, New York in the 1960s. She studied and graduated from the University of San Diego and the school of visual arts in New York. Simpson creates images that make the audience view the important stereotypes of black women in a new and improved way. Lorna presents us with provocative and life-changing images because she sees black female identity as an overlooked culture. In her images, she expresses her thoughts on the representation that black woman has in our culture she also points out that because of our society black women aren 't able to embrace themselves as who they are because they are influenced by other cultures.
A Look at "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement'. While overall the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement reads as being dry, somewhat emotionally detached and like a text book, it does not diminish the incredible work, strength, knowledge, leadership and life of Ella Josephine Baker overall this book has greatly broadened my knowledge of the incredible force that was Ella Baker. Author Barbra Ransby begins by going into great detail about how Ella Baker was first molded by the careful life her parents and family built up around her and the community service and charity that was an integral and emphasized everyday part of her childhood.
General Purpose: To Inform Specific purpose: To explain the life of Dr. Dorothy Height. Central Idea: The amazing Dorothy Height endured a challenging and difficult childhood and adulthood filled full of struggles, but she never allowed any of these adversities to hinder her from accomplishing remarkable achievements throughout her lifetime. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Material A. “When you worry about who to give credit to; you get little done” was quoted by Dorothy Height 1.
Her tragedy reflects not only the sexism in the African American families in early 20th century, but also the uselessness
One of her most well known accomplishments is when she helped lead a strike against the company Bryant & May. Annie Besant even published an article titled "White Slavery in London" in which she drew attention to dangers of phosphorus fumes which the girls had to work with and complained about the low wages paid to the women who worked at Bryant and May. She also drew attention to the ridiculous fines the company opposed on the girls for talking, dropping matches or going to the lavatory without authorisation. She also discussed the 12 hour days, and other unfair rules like if a girl is late she only gets half pay that day. In response to the article, Bryant & May fired the three girls who helped provide the information to Annie Besant.
Not only was she an abolitionist, but a women’s rights activist. Being separated from her family starting at an early age, she moved around farm to farm until she resided on the property of John Dumont at West Park, New York. This would probably be the starting point of her legacy. It was there were she first learned english, and met her first love with a slave from a neighboring farm. However their love story did not end happily, as they were forbidden to marry.
During the 1920s something extraordinary accord, an artistic movement that flourished the African American society and that would impact the world we live in today. Some know this movement to be called The New Negro Movement others The New Negro Movement. We often hear about the men like Alain Locke or Langston Hughes that had a major role in the movement, but what about the women? I will explore legendary women like Maya Angelou, Naomi Sims, Aida Overton Walker, Angelina Grimke, and Zora Neale Hurston. These women had contributed to The Harlem Renaissance, but are not often recognized for them.
Josephine Baker an amazing vocal opponent of segregation and discrimination, often initiating one-women protests against racial justice. She dealt with alot when she was younger from being burned out of her home to being so frightened and running away, she was beaten just for the things she continued to do and to say the things she said just because she didn't like the rules and laws of segregation. Josephine ran away multiple times but when she ran away to another country she could do anything she wanted she felt like she was equal to everyone. She was a person who not only just wanting to fight for blacks but for all she wanted to do anything with all races all color because she felt like we all was put on this earth and we all suppose
In 1995 she gave a speech to the Asian American Convocation at Brown University. In it she addressed the current issues of racial inequality and what should be done. At the time the issue of racism was still a problem and that’s why she wrote the speech, in order to address the problem and inspire change to
