Kathy’s PEP Talk
To all of you who came out Saturday night for our fundraiser, I give thanks!! It was soo much fun and a huge success and could not have happened without you! Here is a clip done last year regarding the camp. . Just got it from Peppy! Enjoy. . Love and light –...Jazz fundraiser for girls summer program
Kayla Bell, 8, can’t wait to return to camp this year. That’s why a Feb. 23 fundraiser at Seekers Church is so important to her and other girls who attended a summer program called iThings 2 Collard Greens. IThings refer to things like cell phones and...Annual Fundraiser on Saturday, February 23, 2012
Dear Family: Happy Black History Month! Many of you know and supported iThings 2 Collard Greens, the summer program I founded last year in which 52 girls were exposed to the teachings and philosophy of Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary McLeod Bethune,...More Pictures: Girls at the Ark
[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...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.