Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/331

Black women edit‑a‑thon
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Black women
February 2025

Recently completed:	Women who died: 2024 Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities
New this month:	Alphabet run: C & D Black women
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Alphabet run: E & F Artists+Activists Ideas

Welcome!

In February 2025, Women in Red is once again focusing on Black women in conjunction with Black History Month. In this connection, we welcome the collaborative efforts of WikiProject Black Lives Matter.

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about Black women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in our initiative. You are of course also welcome to add articles on any other notable women who deserve to be covered, for example under our #1day1woman priority.

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.

• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.

• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram)

Thank you!

Redlists

These are lists of redlinked articles to be created. A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index. Those relating to Black women are listed below:

African-American women (WD) Black history (CS) Black women in Food History (CS) Black women in the Visual Arts (WD) Indigenous women (CS) Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias BlackPast (WD) Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (CS) Dictionary of African Biography (WD) Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (WD) Notable Black American Women (CS) (WD) Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (CS) Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States (CS) Women of Distinction (WD) There are also individual lists which incorporate Black women from the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. These include: Angola (WD) Bahamas (WD) Barbados (WD) Benin (WD) Botswana (WD) Burkina Faso (WD) Burundi (WD) Cameroon (WD) Central African Republic (WD) Chad (WD) Democratic Republic of the Congo (WD) Djibouti (WD) Dominica (WD) Equitorial Guinea (WD) Eritrea (WD) Eswatini (WD) Ethiopia (WD) Fiji (WD) Gabon (WD) Gambia (WD) Ghana (WD) Guinea (WD) Guinea-Bissau (WD) Haiti (WD) Ivory Coast (WD) Jamaica (WD) Kenya (WD) Lesotho (WD) Liberia (WD) Madagascar (WD) Malawi (WD) Mali (WD) Mozambique (WD) Namibia (WD) Niger (WD) Nigeria (CS) (WD) Republic of the Congo (WD) Rwanda (WD) São Tomé and Príncipe (WD) Saint Kitts and Nevis (WD) Senegal (WD) South Africa (WD) Tanzania (WD) Uganda (WD) Zambia (WD) Zimbabwe (WD)

Participants

• WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:22, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
• Penny Richards (talk) 17:29, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
• Yue🌙 08:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Victuallers (talk) 10:16, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Baqi:) (talk) 11:05, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (she/they) ^talk/edits 12:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
• Bookworm-ce (talk) 15:25, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
• Rubystaramaryllis (talk) 01:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
• Medievalfran (talk) 16:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
• PamD 00:15, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
• Darwin Naz (talk) 01:53, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
• SDGB1217 (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
• Nayyn (talk) 14:10, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
• Hobbitina (talk) 18:16, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
• MumphingSquirrel (talk) 19:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 21:13, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
• Citrivescence (talk) 03:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Ayanda Candice Sibanda
2. Jacqueline Gowe
3. Rachel Zulu Mazombwe
4. Temwa Chawinga upgrade
5. Helen Webb Harris upg, add infobox, cats, etc.
6. Ernestina Edem Appiah upgraded, add picture and cleaned up
7. Mayeli Villalba
8. Women's History Museum of Zambia
9. Odessa M. Shannon
10. Annie Greene Nelson
11. Lydie Pongault
12. Khadijetou Lekweiry
13. Rose Leary Love
14. Ramona McCarthy Hawkins
15. Danielle Carr Ramdath
16. Erecia Hepburn
17. Victoria Kingstone (politician) upgrade
18. Gertrude Kazarwa (also 327)
19. Binta Jammeh-Sidibe (also 327)
20. Sardoine Mia
21. Barbara Allimadi (also 327)
22. Sandra Kwikiriza (also 327)
23. Loveness Gondwe upgrade
24. Jacquiline Chikuta
25. Theresa Kachindamoto upgrade
26. Tonya Rush
27. Mary E. Jones Parrish
28. Josephine Silone Yates upgraded using Notable Black American Women
29. Florida Ruffin Ridley upgraded using Notable Black American Women
30. Alethia Tanner upgraded using Notable Black American Women
31. Gabisile Nkosi
32. Ellen Barnes McGinnis
33. Margaree Seawright Crosby
34. Kem Smith
35. Rochelle Walton Gray
36. Chanel Mosley (also 330)
37. Naimi Aziz
38. Elnora D. Daniel
39. Nannie Mitchell using Notable Black American Women
40. Josie English Wells upgraded using Notable Black American Women
41. Gabisile Nkosi (also 327)
42. Loretta Carter Hanes
43. Georgina Falú
44. Stephanie Boykin
45. Donna Barnes
46. Melissa Douglas
47. Tiffany Price
48. Marla Smith
49. Cécile Bozanga (also 330)
50. Nwamaka Okoye upgraded/reformatted, currently tagged as AfD trying to save
51. Antoinette Lubaki upgraded – Bsky
52. Paula Giddings upgraded using Notable Black American Women
53. Beverly Johnson upgraded using Notable Black American Women
54. Terry McMillan upgraded using Notable Black American Women
55. Eliza Ann Gardner upgraded using Notable Black American Women
56. Mercedes Ellington
57. Sylvia E. Mathis
58. Cassi Chandler
59. Estelle Pinckney Clough
60. Julia Aker Duany
61. Willa Brown upgraded using Notable Black American Women
62. Ersa Poston upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
63. Susan Elizabeth Frazier upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
64. Ramona Edelin upgraded, dictionary Notable Black American Women
65. Colette Solomon (also 327, 330)
66. Ruby Jean Johnson
67. Gracie's Corner
68. Anyah
69. La Keisha Jackson
70. Charlotte Moton Hubbard add img,
71. Jennie B. Moton add img,
72. Susan Dangarembga
73. Princess Wee Wee (also 327)
74. Teresa Adams (also 327)
75. Vivian Ayers Allen (also 327)
76. Sallie Wyatt Stewart new img,
77. Irene Drusilla Namaganda
78. Camille Cohen Jones also on WikiQuote
79. Nancy Elizabeth Prophet add img,
80. Jamie Jackson (Colorado politician)
81. Agnes Yewande Savage add img,
82. Ruth Janetta Temple add img,
83. Sebetha Lee Jenkins using Notable Black American Women
84. María Remedios del Valle – upgraded, images added, Bsky
85. Sarah Willie Layton add img,
86. Mary Virginia Cook Parrish add img,
87. Florence Mudzingwa (also 327)
88. Francine Gálvez (also 327)
89. Pauline Maata Nkumu
90. Nina Mae McKinney add img,
91. Victoria Spivey add img,
92. Delia Silance
93. Alice A. Casneau – upgraded
94. Florestine Perrault Collins – upgraded
95. Mary Green (settler)
96. Helen K. Mason
97. Putuse Dwyili-Appolus
98. Vida Mungwira
99. blair doroshwalther (did a film on Black history; also 330)
100. Nejiba Hamrouni (also 327)
101. Carrie Barnes Ross
102. Kidist Hailu Degaffe (also 327, 330)
103. Alice Whitman (dancer)
104. Jaclyn Ford
105. Anissa Jones (politician)
106. Arlene Beckles
107. Sylvia Wayfer Baker
108. Mekyah McQueen
109. Josephine Napwon Cosmas (also 330)
110. Dianaruthe Wharton (also 326/330)
111. Thelma Hill (dancer)
112. Gladys Barker Grauer
113. Mariam Diakité (expanded, also 327)
114. Terry West (also 327)
115. Deise Nunes (also 327, 330)
116. Nina Tapula
117. Chipo Matimba (also 327, 330)
118. Shewalul Mengistu (also 327)
119. Alem Tsahai Iyasu (also 327)
120. Ebony Thompson
121. Rusly Cachina Esapa
122. Karla Smith
123. Frances Berry Coston
124. Sheila R. Tillerson Adams (also 327)
125. Alice G. Pollard Clark (also 327, 330)
126. Ursula Chikane (also 327, 330)
127. Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu (also 327)
128. Marta Cox (expanded, also 327)
129. Jean Coston Maloney
130. Gwendolyn Calvert Baker
131. Myra Colson Callis
132. Elizabeth Komikie Gumede (also 327)
133. Julia Jacobs
134. Bertha Mackenzie Ndebele
135. Regina Otu
136. Lorenza Jordan Cole
137. Carolyn Downs (activist) (also 330)
138. Annie Sinanduku Mwange – translated
139. Guerline Jozef
140. Ethel Caution-Davis
141. Lillie Maie Hubbard
142. Clara Burrill Bruce
143. Effie Lee Newsome – add infobox
144. Joanna Kachilika upgrade
145. Catherine Seals
146. Hetty Burr
147. Tusayiwe Mkhondya
148. Grace Malera
149. Widline Cadet
150. Viola Burley Leak
151. Paulette Childress
152. Brenda Wilkinson
153. Clover Graham
154. Christina Leslie

Promote our work

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• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram

• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn

• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

Outcomes (media)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red – 2025

• 
  Temwa Chawinga
• 
  Dilum Dissanayake at WIPO
• 
  Estelle Pinckney Clough
• 
  Charlotte Moton Hubbard
• 
  Jennie B. Moton
• 
  Sallie Wyatt Stewart
• 
  Irene Drusilla Namaganda
• 
  Camille Cohen Jones
• 
  Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
• 
  Agnes Yewande Savage
• 
  Ruth Janetta Temple
• 
  Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
• 
  Sarah Willie Layton
• 
  Pauline E. Dinkins
• 
  Ruth E. Occomy
• 
  Sarah C. Williamson
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  Victoria Spivey
• 
  Nina Mae McKinney
• 
  Delia Silance
• 
  Frances Berry Coston
• 
  Jean Coston Maloney
• 
  Lorenza Jordan Cole
• 
  Tusaiwe Munkhondya
• 
  Emma Kaliya
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  Ethel Caution-Davis
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  Lillie Maie Hubbard
• 
  Clara Burrill Bruce

Did You Know features

• ... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight? (2025-02-12)
• ... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen? (2020-04-28)
• ... that Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore? (2016-02-19)
• ... that Josephine Silone Yates (pictured) was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States? (2014-02-27)

Event templates

• Invitation: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Outreach/2025

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