“Nannie Live” takes to the Streets
Give thanks for a full house and successful run of “Nannie Live!” during Black History Month. It was delightful working with the Multi-Media Training Institute. Many took advantage of their capacity stream live the performance. Visit www.mmtidc.org,...“Nannie Live!” featured during Women’s History Month
Grow Collards with help from Katie’s Krops
Imagine a little girl digging out a plot of land in an inner city backyard, planting seeds, watering them and watching her vegetable seeds grow into plants. The harvest comes and she picks the food from her vegetable garden to donate to a family or organization in...Fundraiser Success
The first fundraiser for iThings 2 Collard Greens at The Davis Center in Washington, DC was a roaring success. Women, children (and some men) enjoyed Mama Kathy’s reenactment of Nannie Helen Burroughs delivering her speech “There is Nobody...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.