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...
iThings 2 Collard Greens 6 week summer camp
Greetings, friends! I am happy to announce that Arts for Our Children, Inc. has been awarded a substantial grant from Children’s Youth Investment Trust for iThings 2 Collard Greens – a six week summer camp for girls ages 5-13 to be held from June 25...“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...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.