And Still We Rise Interviews with 50 black influencers dr barbara reynolds

 In honor of Black History month, each day I will be sharing with you profiles of 50 amazing African American role models who I interviewed in 1985 for my book And Still We Rise.  Some, like Maya Angelou, who allowed me to re-frame the title of her poem And Still I Rise for my book, Dick Gregory, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Arthur Ashe have made their heavenly transitions.

Others like Malcom-Jamal  Warner of the Cosby Show were just being discovered. And some like astronaut Guion Bluford you might not know but you should. And of course, there are those like Bill Cosby whose fame has been buried under an avalanche of tragic mistakes.

Nevertheless, here they are 35 years later with lessons learned and lessons to share.  Some like Oprah Winfrey who shared her future goals with me 35 years ago revealed the key to the success she was confident she would accomplish. All this is here for you in one easy to read volume for your family and friends to celebrate those who have brought us this far and leave with us the strength to continue our journey. Here are a few excerpts from And Still We Rise. I hope you will cherish their stories as much as I have.

My Life, My Love, My Legacy: The Memoirs of Coretta Scott King

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My Life, My Love, My Legacy: The Memoirs of Coretta Scott King
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Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, and so much more.
As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women’s, workers’ and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity.

Coretta’s is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who, in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful every day of her life.

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