Spelman en Bleu
I loved celebrating with my Spelman sisters yesterday for a special celebration - Spelman en Bleu here on #MarthasVineyard. 🩵🤍 We welcomed our new incoming school President - Dr. Ayanna Howard. Thank you to our Trustee Colleen J. Taylor for hosting us at your beautiful home.
Happy Birthday, President Barack Obama!
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MAGNOLIA Monthly
The August issue of the S.H.A.U.N. Foundation for Girls’ MAGNOLIA Monthly newsletter is here! Check out the latest! 💜 https://conta.cc/4wxiGu0
Divas With Disabilities
These are gorgeous women!
July is Disability Pride Month and as it comes to a close, I want to introduce you to an extraordinary organization called Divas With Disabilities.
One of the donors of the S.H.A.U.N. Foundation for Girls came to me with a very specific request. They wanted to give us a grant to support women of color with disabilities. So we went looking for the organizations already doing that work and I found @divaswithdisabilities
These incredible women are redefining what strength, confidence, and community look like. They are breaking barriers, celebrating their identities, and reminding all of us that disability is just one part of who they are and not the limit of what they can become.
That’s what makes the S.H.A.U.N. Foundation for Girls so impactful. We listen. We search. We connect generous donors with grassroots organizations that are changing lives every single day.
So Congratulations Divas With Disabilities on becoming a new partner of the S.H.A.U.N. Foundation for Girls! Keep investing in a woman’s dignity and opportunity and helping all women be seen and celebrated.
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Happy Heavenly Birthday, Dad 🎂
Happy Heavenly Birthday, Dad. 🎂 I love you and miss you so much. 🥲 I will always cherish our shared birthday parties that we had together celebrating that we were both born in JULY. (Remember when Toni Braxton serenaded you?!) I thank God he chose you to be my daddy. ❤️ 🕊️
Alayjah
RIP 🙏🏾 Friday was a tough day. We laid to rest my 21-year-old niece, Alayjah. 🕊️ Alayjah was my nephew’s daughter, my mother’s great-granddaughter. She was a real go-getter and really loved life. She was interested in the culinary arts and also worked as a daycare assistant. I posted this picture of us together when she was 10-years-old. Back then, she had recently had brain surgery for the debilitating seizures she had been suffering from since she was little. That eased life for a while however, not forever. Alayjah, our Love..Rest easy. #Forever21
Happy Birthday to ME! 🎂
Happy Birthday to ME! 🎂 On this special day, I will share this with you…In 64 trips around the sun, what I’ve learned about life is that we have to be our own center of JOY. This journey will have so many disappointments if our expectations are that other people are responsible for our happiness. My mother always says “That’s a blessing!” when even the smallest piece of good news is found in a bad situation. God can show up BIG TIME in the smallest ways. I have had so many blessings - countless ways that God has showed up for me. I believe that we are an extension of God’s hand. We have to be the light that we seek in this world. Another one of my mother’s sayings that I’ve adopted and I hope you do too is, when someone asks her how she is she’ll say “I’m BLESSED and HIGHLY FAVORED and getting better every day! 🙏🏾 🎉 Thank you, @cazandomemorias for the beautiful photos.
How I Spent my July 4th Holiday
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