Day 22 of Black History Month and I’m honoring the very underrated Raven-Symone. She an American singer, songwriter and actress, who VH1 listed on their “100 Greatest Child Stars of All Time” list in 2012.

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Day 21 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Phillis Wheatley. She was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was enslaved by the Wheatley family of Boston. After she learned to read and write, they encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.

Day 19 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Yolanda King. She was an African American activist and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was also known for her artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father’s highly public and influential activism.

Day 18 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Henrietta Lacks. She was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

Day 17 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Lori Lightfoot. She is an American attorney and politician who serves as the 56th mayor of Chicago. She has served since 2019. Before becoming mayor, Lightfoot worked in private legal practice as a partner at Mayer Brown and held various government positions in the City of Chicago. Most notably, she served as president of the Chicago Police Board and chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force.

Lightfoot is the first openly lesbian African-American woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States. Moreover, she is the second woman (after Jane Byrne), and the third African-American—after Harold Washington and Eugene Sawyer—to be mayor of Chicago.

#myasu ☺️

Day 16 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Flip Wilson. He was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring character Geraldine. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and it was the second highest-rated show on network television for a time. Wilson was the first African American to host a successful TV variety show.

Day 15 of Black History Month and I’m honoring Gordon Parks. He was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans, and in glamour photography.

Legs & Ledges.

black women are holy.

What I Created Today.

If you told 10 year old me that Annabeth Chase would be played by a dark skinned black girl, I would have sobbed. I am currently in tears. I cant wait to share this with my nieces and cousins so they can see another smart and capable character that looks like them. This is so important to me and all of us.

Congratulations Leah Sava Jeffries. You deserve this!!!

MY ANNABETH CHASE

MY WISE GIRL

MY DAUGHTER OF ATHENA

is BLACK!!! WE WIN