Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Olive Morris

Olive Morris

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 16, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 06:43, 4 May 2022 (UTC)



Olive Morris was a Jamaican-born and British-based community activist. She participated in the Black nationalist, feminist and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. She joined the British Black Panthers, occupied buildings in Brixton, South London, and became a key organizer in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom. In London, Morris co-founded the Brixton Black Women's Group and the Organization of Women of African and Asian Descent; when she studied at the Victoria University of Manchester, she was involved in the Manchester Black Women's Co-operative and also travelled to China with the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. After graduating, Morris returned to Brixton, working at the Community Law Centre. She then received a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and died shortly afterwards at the age of 27. Her life and work have been commemorated by both official organizations and the activist group Remembering Olive Collective.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Today's featured article/recent TFAs offers nothing similar and indeed no women. I see J. K. Rowling is currently scheduled for 26 June so perhaps Olive Morris can be towards the beginning of the month, date unspecified
 * Main editors: Mujinga
 * Promoted: 18 April 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: This is my first FA nomination, thanks to all other contributors and reviewers!
 * Support as nominator. Mujinga (talk) 13:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Important candidate per WP:BIAS.  SN54129  17:35, 22 April 2022 (UTC)