Summer Camp Fosters Female Camaraderie and Unity
For the eighth consecutive summer, a group of elders will channel the spirit of Nannie Helen Burroughs, Anna Julia Cooper and other Black female education pioneers as they equip young ladies with the skills needed to navigate adolescence and womanhood. This process...
A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
Ten years ago on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected to be our 44th President of the United States of America. The following day, November 5 I left for Medissage at Noaks Ark in Mt. Croghan SC for a healing sabbatical. Since birth, I struggled with an...
CAMP UPDATE 2018
Summer of 2018 was a phenomenal success at the Davis Center in Ward 4, Manor Park neighborhood in Northwest Washington, DC. We served 35 girls ages 5-13 and mentored 9 youth from the Marion Barry Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). All of our lives were enriched...
A Sunday Kind of Love to benefit iThings2CollardGreens Summer Camp for Our Girls
A Sunday KIND of Love fundraiser to benefit Ithings2CollardGreens Summer Camp for Our Girls MAY 6th 2018 • 3pm (doors open 2:30p • showtime 3:00p) Sound Vibrations by Free & Ayanna Gregory Mama Kathy English Holt as Nannie Helen Burroughs Ivy Hylton | KamilaGem |...In Memory of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nannie Helen Burroughs
(May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)
was an African American educator, orator, religious leader, and businesswoman. She gained national recognition for her 1900 speech "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping," at the National Baptist Convention.
Burroughs created a creed of racial self-help through her program of the three Bs-the Bible, the bath, and the broom. The Bible, the bath, and the broom stood for a clean life, a clean body, and a clean house. She believed domestic work should be professionalized and even unionized.
Burroughs trained her students to become respectable employees by becoming pious, pure, and domestic, but not submissive. She emphasized the importance of being proud black women to all students, by teaching African-American history and culture through a required course in the Department of Negro History.