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Dianna Ward: Carrying Forward the Legacy of Education

Dianna Ward

My passion has always been to be a part of the solution, whether it is activism through preserving our neighborhoods or marching in the streets.

Posted on May 22, 2024 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises Tagged with 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, ACT UP, Albuquerque New Mexico, Andre Watts, Bank of America, banking, bike rentals, bike tours, bikeshare program, Blue Bikes NOLA, bus tours, business plan, Catholic Church food bank, Charlotte BCycle, Charlotte Joyrides, Charlotte NC Tours, Charlotte North Carolina, Chattanooga Tennessee, civic minded, Collin Powell, Corning Incorporated, Department of Defense, Dianna Ward, District Convention in Iowa, El Paso Texas, entrepreneur, feminist, Fifty Most Influential Women, food tours, ghost tours, Greenville South Carolina, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa, Historic West End of Charlotte, Jesse Jackson, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Kansas, Kansas City Missouri, Kansas City Symphony, LGBTQ Support Group, Martha Graham Dance Company, Mathematician, Mecklenburg Times, Memphis, Memphis State Eight, Mississippi, music, New Orleans Louisiana, North American Bikeshare Association, North Carolina State University, Operations Research, people of color, PFLAG, phone banks, Prague, Sankofa Partners LLC, Segway tours, Spectra, Statistics, STEM, Sumner Academy, Take A Hike, unwavering love, van tours, Wachovia, walking tours

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams

A dedicated woman’s journey, making her way from the segregated south, through the civil rights movement, into today’s complex lesbian feminist environment.

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with aging, Angela Denise Davis, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, Black Lesbians, Black nationalists, Black Student Union, blind, Community Engagement Core, Eddie Sandifer, feminist, First Existentialist Congregation, Frederica Sands, Gay Community News, intersectionality, LGBTQ, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, old lesbians organizing for change, OLOC, racism, Rev Lanier Clance, Rev. Wayne Johnson, Sister Harriet, Southern Rural Women’s Network, the Black House, Tougaloo College, Womonwrites, ZAMI, ZAMI NOBLA

Mobley-izing for Change

Carolyn Mobley has seen the racism in the LGBT movement. She works from within to make concrete change, which motivates her as a Black, lesbian preacher.

Posted on March 15, 2022 Posted in Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with AALGA, African American Lesbian & Gay Alliance, Atlanta Feminist Women’s Chorus, Atlanta GA, Baptist, Black, Carolyn Mobley, Charis Books & More, Christian, christianity, feminist, gay pride, grand marshal, Lamda Choral, LBGT, leader, lesbian, Marque Walker, MCC (Metropolitan Community Church), minister, multicultural, multiracial, preacher, racism, religion, Resurrection MCC, Richmond VA, Saginaw MI, Sanford FL, Shiloh Baptist Church, singer, soloist, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), white privilege, womanism, Womanist

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