Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Women Creatives

Welcome to WikiProject Black Women Creatives, a WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biographies of Black women creatives. Help make Black women creatives become better represented and visible on wikipedia in a vein similar to WikiProject Women Scientists.

How it works
Black women creatives are defined as those women who are from the african diaspora, creative and who have made notable, often pioneering contributions to a profession, discipline or field. Some black women will already exist in wikipedia, others will need to be created and some may exist and require updating/ editing. It is relatively easy to add people to the A-Z of existing black women, check out potential sources listed here or think of notable black women, talk to people about notable black women, search for them on wikipedia and add them if they are not already added. Be sure to include a link to their page.

Writing biographies:
 * The Manual of Style for biographies
 * Biographies of living persons.

Notability
 * Notability (academics)
 * Notability (people)#Creative professionals — includes scientists & academics

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 * Contributing tips
 * Tutorial

Contributors
Add yourself as a contributor and say a bit about your motivation to help out. PS non-black women and non-black men are welcome to help contribute. The more the merrier!


 * 1) - Digital Creative and Higher Education Professional keen to provide educators quick access to articles to help reduce systemic bias in classrooms, lecture theatres and in media representation
 * 2) - Director and media professional in UK.
 * 3) - UK based Arts and Heritage practitioner. To help celebrate exceptional achievements.
 * 4) - US-based academic, editor, and musician. I want to facilitate greater access to entries about nonwhite women. This began when editing Musicology, noticing the prominence of white women in the "notable women" section, then beginning to author Draft:Tammy L. Kernodle. Relatively new to WP and eager to learn and create more together.

Potential Sources

 * List of African-American women in STEM fields
 * List of civil rights leaders
 * Wikipedia:SHE_MUST_BE_WIKI:_Feminist_Film_Wiki-a-thon
 * Black Women in Europe: power list
 * Black British Academics
 * Black British Actors
 * Black African Actors (or with African heritage
 * | List of African scientists inventors and scholars]
 * | Ethnic minority politicians

Activists and Politicians

 * Diane Abbott First Black Female British Member of Parliament, elected to the House of Commons in 1987 General election
 * Marsha de Cordova British Labour party politician. She is blind and advocates for blind people through charitable work
 * Bell Hooks Addressed race, class and gender across disciplines and in the media
 * Shirley Chisholm First African-American woman elected to United State's Congress and first black candidate for US President
 * Oona King Labour politician and former diversity officer at Channel 4
 * Kate Osamor Black British, Nigerian labour politician
 * Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Teacher and women's rights activist, advocating for Nigerian women's right to vote
 * Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist and the 'mother of the freedom movement'
 * Michelle Obama African-American lawyer and wife and first lady to US President Barack Obama

Actresses, Playwrights, Directors and Theatre Practitioners

 * Halle Berry American Actress achieving academy award winning success in the film Monster's Ball
 * Angela Bassett American actress and activist best known for biographical roles such as Tina Turner
 * Dorothy Dandridge American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer
 * Viola Davis Academy award winning American actress and producer.
 * Jennifer Hudson Academy award winning American singer and actress who rose to fame via American idol
 * Hattie McDaniel Academy award winning American stage actress, professional singer-songwriter, and comedian. First black actress to win an academy award
 * Lupita Nyong'o Academy award winning actress, born in Mexico to Kenyan parents
 * Jada Pinkett-Smith American actress, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. Spoke out against lack of black nominations for academy awards.

Entrepreneurs

 * Madam C.J. Walker Entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist who invented a line of African-American hair products

Novelists & Poets

 * Maya Angelou
 * Jackie Kay Award winning Scottish poet and novelist
 * Alice Walker Critically acclaimed African-American novelist, notable works include The Color Purple which was made into a feature film

Media & Entertainment hosts

 * Oprah Winfrey

Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics

 * Maggie Aderin-Pocock English/ Nigerian Space Scientist, appeared as co-presenter of The Sky at Night
 * Mamie Phipps Clark American social psychologist that focused on the development of self-consciousness of pre-schooled black children
 * Marie Maynard Daly American biochemist and the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry
 * Evelyn Boyd Granville Second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University (Yale) in 1949
 * Mary Styles Harris American Biologist and Geneticist
 * Mae Jemison American engineer, physician and Nasa Astronaut. First African American woman to travel to space
 * Shirley Ann Jackson American physicist and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT
 * Katherine Johnson African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the aeronautics and space programmes
 * Joan Higginbotham American engineer and Nasa Astronaut. Third African American woman to travel into space
 * Inez Beverly Prosser Teacher and first African American woman to receive a psychology PhD. Her dissertation, became an important text for issues relating to education, reform, social development, racial identity
 * Beverly Daniel Tatum American psychologist, administrator, and educator who has conducted research and written books on the topic of race, focusing specifically on race in education, racial identity development in teenagers
 * Dorothy Vaughan African American mathematician who worked for NASA
 * Stephanie Wilson American engineer and Nasa Astronaut. Second African American woman to travel into space
 * Roger Arliner Young American scientist of zoology, biology, and marine biology. She was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology

Singers, Songwriters and Musicians

 * Neneh Cherry

Sportswomen

 * Kelly Holmes

Require Updating

 * Hyllus Maris
 * Joi_McMillon - here's a recent LA Times profile on Joi McMillon to build out her article -- http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-joi-mcmillon-moonlight-oscars-20170223-story.html

Need Creating

 * Juliet Ellis British Director, Performance Artist and Actress who starred in Ken Loach's 'It's a Free World'
 * Dr Dawn Edge British Academic researching Afro-carribean Mental health: academic profile
 * Dr Deborah Gabrielle Founder of Black British Academics network: and see profile
 * Professor Shirley Anne Tate (Shirley Tate) Cultural Sociologist focused on intersectional thinking:

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