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Women's HERstory Month
Did you know? What we now recognize as Women’s History Month, started out as “Women’s History Week” in Santa Rosa, California as a local celebration. Women across the country began to initiate Women’s History Week celebrations in their communities causing a widespread movement. A consortium of women’s groups and historians – led by the National Women’s History Alliance (then known as the National Women’s History Project) – successfully lobbied for national recognition. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8th, 1980, National Women’s History Week. Then, in 1987, Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as “Women’s History Month.”
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Women in the Community
“Every single mother and daughter across the nation will have the skills and resources needed to uplift herself, her family, and her community to a place of economic, educational, and socio-emotional health and success.” – Building Our Nation’s Daughters Inc. (BOND)
In 2016, Ateira Griffin founded Building Our Nation’s Daughters (BOND) to “facilitate, nurture and strengthen relationships between single mothers and their daughters in urban communities.” BOND provides services to single mothers in Baltimore City that “cultivate positive mother-daughter relationships, strengthen Black single-mother families, and increase their economic mobility 2 generations at a time.”
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BOND is founded on the belief that families are the foundation of our nation, parents are the center of each family, and a mother is the heart of a single mother household.
BOND’s programs include mentoring, relationship building, financial wellness and more to ensure single mother households have access to “the tools and supports to build strong positive mothers, daughters, and families.”
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Women In Government
“Remember, it’s about doing your best job to assist the citizens of Baltimore and that we wear many hats. We are here to help, listen and encourage our residents to better their lives.”
- Janice Williams
When many of us hear the term “public servant,” we call to mind mayors, senators and other elected officials, but the term also includes the receptionists, directors, managers, maintenance workers, those who secure the buildings and any local, state or federal government employees, many of them women.
This Women’s History Month we wanted to acknowledge the women who have chosen to serve the residents of Baltimore City by working directly with the community or by way of supporting a team within their agency, women like Janice Williams who began working for the City of Baltimore in 1987. Ms. Williams has proudly served under seven mayors and is currently an Office Support Specialist III at Northern Baltimore City Community Action Partnership (BCCAP).
Thank you for your service!!
Happy Women’s History Month to all the women working towards building a better Baltimore.
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Victorine Quille Adams:
was the first African-American woman to serve on the Baltimore City Council. Born in Baltimore, Maryland to Joseph C. and Estelle Tate Quille, she graduated from Frederick Douglass High School and attended Coppin Teachers College (now Coppin State University), as well as Morgan State College (now Morgan State University). After graduating from college, Adams worked as a teacher in Baltimore City for fourteen years.
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Cecilia Maria Altonaga:
is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She is the first Cuban-American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Celcilia Maria Altonaga is an alumna of Florida International University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. She graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1986.
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Nancy Pelosi:
born in Baltimore, Maryland, Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Now in her third term as Speaker, Pelosi made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency, the first person to do so in more than 60 years. Pelosi comes from a strong family tradition of public service. Her late father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., served as Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years.
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Ernestine Shepherd:
85, from Baltimore, Maryland, was added to the 2012 Guinness World Record book as the oldest female body builder. Shepherd was a model in Baltimore for years, but at age 56 she and her sister Mildred Blackwell went to try on swimsuits and found their bodies were out of shape; they then started taking aerobics classes. Her sister began competing in bodybuilding shows under the name Velvet, and Ernestine followed under the name Ernie.
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Coricka White:
is making history as the first Black woman manager of Baltimore's Domino Sugar in its near 100-year-history, The Baltimore Sun reports.
White holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia and a Master's of Business Administration from the Florida Institute of Technology. She first got her start with the company almost two decades ago. She began her career as a process engineer in 2003.
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Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners Application Opening April 4, 2022
On April 4, 2022, Mayor Scott will open applications to candidates seeking to serve on the Baltimore City School Board of Commissioners.
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