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[nggallery id=7]A Summer of Transformation
A symptom . . A cure A calling . . . A listening A need . . . . A response A dream was realized! And so it is . . . I inhale satisfaction and I exhale gratitude for a summer of transformation and for all those who accompanied me on the iThings 2 Collard Greens...
“iThings 2 Collard Greens Has Early Positive Impact” – The Washington Informer
“Kathy English Holt needed to get away. Life’s rigors began to take their toll and stress weighed on her like a boulder. An avid believer in the healing arts, she escaped to the Medissage Meditation Center in Mount Croghan, S.C. As English Holt stood on...Summer in the city! Dreams do come true!!!
iThings 2 Collard Greens Summer Day Camp for Girls is entering its 5th week. Nannie Helen Burroughs is smiling down as she sees the work with little girls dedicated to her memory. What an exciting summer for the girls, their families and the staff of iThings 2 Collard...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.