"I had crossed the line. I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.’ Harriet Tubman (Psalm 137:4).
Lanetta Bronté-Hall is responsible for strategic planning, scientific, and administrative oversight of the Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research (FSCDR). She is a leading national and international researcher and population health scientist in the field of sickle cell disease, rare blood disorders, community-based participatory research, and chronic disease management. Dr. Bronté-Hall has extensive experience in developing programs that are closely aligned with the recruitment and retention of underserved and underrepresented populations for treatment of Sickle Cell Disease and Breast Cancer, research and clinical trials. She is currently President and CEO of the Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research (FSCDR), Chief Health Officer (CHO) of the Sickle Care and Research Network, FSCDR, LLC, an independent full- service outpatient medical treatment and clinical trials center that offers medical care and coordinated care for underserved populations. Dr. Bronté-Hall held a faculty appointment at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine as an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Department of Health Services Research and Policy.
https://fscdr.org
https://www.fscdr.org/team/lanetta-bronte-hall/
Vice President Kamala Harris has never been afraid to speak her mind—and we're all the better for it.
First as San Francisco's District Attorney and California's Attorney General, then as her home state's senator, and now as the Biden administration's second in command, Harris has made her case on the biggest challenges facing our country ("There is no vaccine for racism," she said during her speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention), the most pressing legislative issues (including immigration, voting, and maternal health care), the importance of having women in leadership positions (she credits her mom with raising her and her sister to be strong black women), the beauty of her blended family, (she is the stepmom—or "momala"—to her husband's two kids), and the right way to make potato curry. Not to mention how to correctly pronounce her name (it's comma-la, for the record).
https://www.oprah.com/health_wellness/15-kamala-harris-quotes-thatll-inspire-you-to-take-charge#ixzz6o49arKSE
She is a political leader, voting rights activist, and New York Times bestselling author. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, severed as Democratic Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning more votes than any other Democrat in the state's history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. She was the first black woman and the first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union.
Abram is a Law School graduate. In 2012, Abrams received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award from the Kennedy Library and Harvard University's Institute of Politics, which honors an elected official under 40 whose work demonstrates the impact of elective public service as a way to address general challenges.[93] In 2014 Governing Magazine named her a Public Official of the Year, an award that recognizes state and local officials for outstanding accomplishments. Abrams is pro-choice, advocates for expanded gun control, and opposes proposals for stricter voter ID laws. She has argued that voter ID laws disenfranchise minorities and the poor.
Rashida Jones
Television Executive Is the president of the cable news network MSNBC, Jones is the first Black woman to lead a cable news network. Jones attended Hampton University, majoring in broadcast journalism. Her roles included managing editor at MSNBC and senior vice president of specials for NBC News and MSNBC in which she manages dayside and weekend news programming on MSNBC, as well as leading coverage of breaking news and major events across NBC News and MSNBC. Jones is known for expanding the town-hall concept to a wider audience, notably with the criminal justice special filmed at Sing Sing correctional facility. Jones is a member of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Jones_(television_executive)
Kyla is the Chief Operating Officers, Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research, an acclaimed only stand-alone Sickle Center in the United States.
Kyla Thorpe graduated from the esteemed University of Miami with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with an Emphasis in Sociology, and a Bachelor of Science in Communication in Public Relations, with minors in journalism and entrepreneurship. A creative with a cosmopolitan mentality, she works in the exciting industries of wellness and healthcare.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylathorpe
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Is an American attorney and author who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and was the first African-American first lady. As first lady, Obama served as a role model for women and worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She supported American designers and was considered a fashion icon. After her husband's presidency, her influence remained high; in 2020, Obama topped Gallup's poll of the most admired woman in America for the third year.
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn," she said. "And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States."
Michelle remained committed throughout her time as first lady to her health-and-wellness causes. In 2012, she announced a new fitness program for kids as part of her Let's Move initiative. Along with the U.S. Olympic team and other sports organizations, she worked to get young people to try out a new sport or activity.
https://www.biography.com/us-first-lady/michelle-obama
There is an Angolan Umbunddu proverb that says, Vobela, vo vil kela viombela lo va lende momo ame ndi lungowala oanu vange“I have warned you (of the coming rainy season) with lightning and with thunder, do you think that I have a sickle with which to cut the grass and thatch your roofs” Adeyemo, Tokunboh. Africa Bible Commentary. Nairobi, Kenya: WordAlive Publishers, 2006. Print.
Is an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine is an expert on the front lines of the global race for a SARS-CoV-vaccine, and someone who will go down in history as one of the key players in developing the science that could end the pandemic. She is one of the National Institutes of Health's leading scientists behind the government's search for a vaccine.
Is an American viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIAID NIH) based in Bethesda, Maryland.[2][3] She earned a PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) in 2014.[4] Appointed to the VRC in 2014, she is currently the scientific lead of the VRC's Coronavirus Team,[5] with research efforts aimed at propelling novel coronavirus vaccines, including a COVID-19 vaccine. In December 2020, the Institute's Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci said: "Kizzy is an African American scientist who is right at the forefront of the development of the vaccine In February 2021,
Corbett was highlighted in the Time's "Time100 Next" list[9] under the category of Innovators, with a profile written by Dr. FauciIn the Time's profile, Dr. Fauci wrote that Corbett has "been central to the development of the Moderna mRNA vaccine and the Eli Lilly therapeutic monoclonal antibody that were first to enter clinical trials in the U.S." and that "her work will have a substantial impact on ending the worst respiratory-disease pandemic in more than 100 year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzmekia_Corbett
Loretta Lynch
Is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001) and Obama (2010–2015). As a U.S. attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island.
Lynch is a Harvard Law School graduate. She then practiced law in New York and became a federal prosecutor in 1990, rising to become head of the Eastern District office. She later returned to private law practice, until she again became the top district prosecutor. From 2003 to 2005, she served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
As attorney general, Lynch made police reform a priority of the DOJ. It conducted investigations into the law-enforcement departments of various cities, notably Baltimore and Chicago, following a series of high-profile allegations of police brutality. Its reports were largely scathing, and in 2017 Baltimore agreed to implement a number of changes recommended by the DOJ.
Lynch also focused on minority rights, including those of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Notably, in 2016 she announced that the DOJ was suing North Carolina over a law that required transgender people to use public restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms that matched their biological sex (as indicated on their birth certificates). Lynch claimed that the legislation violated their civil rights.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Loretta-Lynch
As recently as 2013, there was only one black woman leading a major city. Now, for the first time in the nation’s history, women of color lead 10 of the nation’s 100 largest cities, serving in many cases as the first female mayors of communities around the country. In seven cities — Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Charlotte, North Carolina, San Francisco and Chicago — black women have climbed from city council seats and municipal boards into the mayor's office.
“What’s happening is that black women are demonstrating the ability to lead on city councils,” said Glynda C. Carr, president and CEO of Higher Heights, a national political organization working to harness the power of black women’s votes and black female elected officials to advance progressive policies.
Since 2017, Higher Heights said, it has seen almost 2,000 black women participate in the online training that the organization offers to women curious about public office.
“What’s amazing is these women are catapulting themselves to city leadership despite the fact that our research has shown they are the most likely to be actively discouraged from running,” Carr said. “So, we’re very interested in this pattern and supporting and expanding this pipeline, really challenging and changing the face of what leadership — all the way to the White House — looks like."
Black Women changing the face of what leadership — all the way to the White House — looks like."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/black-women-mayors-rising-force-major-american-cities-n1027471
https://youtu.be/VyqfUVMuuKI
Is the founder of the L.A. chapter of the Free Black Women’s Library, at a lending library inside Bloom and Plume, a black-owned coffee shop on Temple Street. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times). The Free Black Women’s Library, a mobile pop-up library and community for black women, is creating spaces such as this one across the city. A movement that was first sparked in New York, the library hopes to cultivate an appreciation for black female writers but also a safe space for communities of color.
Asha Grant, 27, has raised more than $81,000 on GoFundMe to start The Salt Eaters Book Shop, an emerging indie bookshop that will prioritize books, zines and comics written and created by and about Black women and girls, femmes and nonbinary people.
Grant said her goal is to decolonize literacy. “The literary world can be a really elitist, classist, and exclusionary space.”“I want to normalize nerd-ing out over the voices and stories that have been deemed illegitimate by racist and misogynistic literary canons and academies for centuries,” she explained. Grant envisions the bookstore to be creative and inspiring.
“I want it to be welcoming and a place where you can bring your homegirls, grab a book, lounge and feel comfortable and safe,” Grant explained.
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-free-black-womens-library-20190628-story.html
Is a 23 year old black woman and the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, read the following poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.
Amanda S. C. Gorman is a poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.
Her inauguration poem generated international acclaim, and shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status, and she obtained a professional management contract. In February 2021, Gorman was highlighted in Time magazine's 100 Next List under the category of Phenoms, with a profile written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In 2016, Gorman founded the nonprofit organization One Pen One Page, a youth writing and leadership program. In 2017, she became the first author to be featured on XQ Institute's Book of the Month, a monthly giveaway to share inspiring Gen Z's favorite books. She wrote a tribute for black athletes for Nike and has a book deal with Viking Children's Books to write two children's picture books.
In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV. She wrote "In This Place: An American Lyric" for her September 2017 performance at the Library of Congress, which commemorated the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate of the United States.The Morgan Library and Museum acquired her poem "In This Place (An American Lyric)" and displayed it in 2018 near works by Elizabeth Bishop.
While at Harvard, Gorman became the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate in April 2017.[3][25][36] She was chosen from five finalists In 2017, Gorman won a $10,000 grant from media company OZY in the annual OZY Genius Awards through which 10 college students are given.” the opportunity to pursue their outstanding ideas and envisioned innovations".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
Is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021. attended Stanford University and New College, Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and received a DPhil (PhD). She served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff from 1993 to 1997 and was the assistant secretary of state for African affairs at the State Department from 1997 to 2001..
Rice served as a foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. Rice served as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and as the 24th U.S. national security advisor from 2013 to 2017.
I had always been interested in public policy and, when I was at Stanford, I expected that I would go to law school and work in public interest law. I viewed the History major as excellent preparation for almost any career path, particularly for law. It gave me a very broad and important knowledge base, but also strong analytical, writing, and speaking skills.
However, after completing my doctorate in international relations and working at McKinsey, I ended up on a different path that was narrowed from public policy to the national security field. I had the opportunity to work in the Clinton White House on the National Security Council staff as a Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping. My career progressed from their under two Democratic administrations—Clinton and Obama—and in between I worked at the Brookings Institution as a scholar in foreign policy.
In terms of advice, I firmly believe in studying what you love, following your passion, and not being rigid about your choices. Very few people know what they want to do with the rest of their lives at age 21. Be willing to try new things, change course, and follow a path that may not have been obvious or set by you in advance.
https://history.stanford.edu/people/susan-rice
Condoleezza Rice
Under President Bush, Rice dedicated her department to "Transformational Diplomacy," with a mission of building and sustaining democratic, well-governed states around the world and the Middle East in particular.
She went on to become the first African American woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State — she became the nation's 66th Secretary of State in 2004, following Colin Powell's resignation, and served from 2005 to 2009.
Condoleezza Rice is the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University. In 2001, Rice was appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush, becoming the first African American woman (and woman) to hold the post.
Rice was a Democrat until 1982, when she changed her political affiliation to Republican, in part because she disagreed with the foreign policy of Democratic President Jimmy Carter and because of the influence of her father, who was Republican. As she told the 2000 Republican National Convention, "My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
In March 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.[ In September 2010, she became a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy.[6] In January 2020, it was announced that Rice would succeed Thomas W. Gilligan as the next director of the Hoover Institution on September 1, 2020. She is on the Board of Directors of Dropbox and Makena Capital Management, LLC
https://www.biography.com/political-figure/condoleezza-rice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
Rosalind "Roz" Brewer
First Black Woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Walgreens CEO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Brewer
There has to be a complete reprogramming of the mind to accept the precious gift. We must acknowledge the call without guilt, rejecting the idea that we are racist unless we include white women. 
This is our Mommy, Mitochondrial Eve. Dr. Ishakamusa Baranshango states, "Mitochondrial Eve refers to more than one woman, a group of women, several thousand with the same strand of mitochondrial DNA". According to Newsweek: Mitochondrial Eve” refers to mitochondrial DNA, the unique genetic code that is passed down from female to female.
"And Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living" [Genesis 3:20]. "Mitochondria are membrane-bound cell organelles (mitochondrion, singular) that generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions. Chemical energy produced by the mitochondria stored in a small molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Mitochondria contain their small chromosomes. Generally, mitochondria, and therefore mitochondrial DNA, are inherited only from the mother." National Institutes of Health. National Human Genome Research Institute.
Glossary of Genetic Terms. www.genome.gov/glossary/index.cfm?id=128. Accessed October 23, 2018.
After years of research, Scientists believe African women were chosen to populate the earth with her Mitochondrial Eve. She carries the original womb, per a scientist. Her womb is the most sacred in birthing humankind.
History has defined without a doubt that humankind's origin comes from one man and one Woman. There are doubters determined to debunk this revelation, but unsuccessful. From the beginning of time, the black Woman had to endure disrespect. A lack of knowledge was our enemy, and sadly in the 21st century, this truth still exists. For me learning this revelation in conjunction with Yahweh's Word opened my eyes to a new world. Our Gentile white sisters, in their way, place themselves as leaders and black Hebrew women followers. Negroes can see that they come from the sacred womb of the black Woman ordained by Yahweh.
No longer is the leverage of the black Woman reduced to zero. The Book (Bible) deepens this revelation. Deborah, an Israelite, was a judge over Israel and a prophetess of Yahweh. She delivered Yahweh's Word to Barak on his assignment. However, Barak said unto the Prophetess, "If you go with me, then I will go." He felt secure with her leadership for counsel in a time of an emergency. Her Oracle with Yahweh assured him of Yahweh's presence and the mere fact he would prevail.
[Judges 4:8-9] "And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go." And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a
During three years, the Spirit of Truth showed me the rise of the Black Woman. I wrote two articles, August 1, 2015, "The Rise and Power of the Black Woman," and February 15, 2017, The Rise of the Black Woman. Today, YAH has released me to complete the revelation with a third issue. I never knew this truth existed, and biblical sound.
Some wonder why the black Woman is important; after all, the white Woman has been on the front. To understand what is occurring, we have to start from the beginning of biblical history, the book of Genesis.
Without the existence of man, there would be no woman. Everything Yahweh did, he made it unique and undeniable. Example: The word used for Adam, Hebrew word Adam, which means man, humankind, the first man. The root word comes from `Adam, to be red, (Qual) ruddy (of Nazarites). Adam or man took from the dust of the ground. Hebrew word ground, Adamah, earth. The dirt in African is red, which explains why Adam's name means "red, or ruddy."
Yahweh's original plan for humankind forfeited. Adam rejected Yahweh's instruction by submitting to another authority. However, not all of Yahweh's plans altered. The Woman received a prophetic task that covers all humanity. After expulsion from the Garden, she no longer referred to as Woman. Adam named her Eve. She was now the mother of all the living [Genesis 3:20]. Hebrew 'em- mother of humans. Hold tight, YAH was speaking only of the "black woman."
Yahweh is bringing specific prophecies back into his original divine plan. The Black Woman has a divine destiny that distinguished it from all other ethnic groups. For centuries, the Black Woman, due to ignorance, lost her identity. She proceeded through her life journey, looking up to white women who appeared successful. Unconsciously, she was our god and the fact of being a feminist.
Black people remain as the minority for the simple reason of being economically poor. The concept comes from the abolitionist fears in the 1787 passing of the American Constitution. Congress spent hours arguing whether slaves can be given equal political rights, concluded they could not. Therefore, to keep white people, the superior black man constitutional reduced to Three-Fifth of a man inferior to white people. The motive, black people, would have power.
However, black women finally are awakened to the fact Yahweh has planned a strategic role for them. One has to admit black women are powerful, but in what way? There are secular adjectives used to describe her power, but we will stay with the divine plan found in the BOOK. Does Black Woman embrace her uniqueness?
There has to be a complete reprogramming of the mind to accept the precious gift. We must acknowledge the call without guilt, rejecting the idea that we are racist unless we include white women.
Black preachers reject teaching truths that appear to divide. Therefore, the messages are generic, fitting for anyone without pointing out who Yahweh was addressing. Example: "Ye shall be unto me the Kingdom of Priest," a history of the Hebrew Israelites [Exodus 19:6]. These are black people, not Gentile whites.
I stumble upon a statement written by LeBron James, said and I quote, "Nothing in this world is more POWERFUL than Colored Women!!" he wrote. "Thank you all for continuing to not settle and setting great examples in life for so many looking up to you for inspiration/guidance and love!! My daughter is watching" LeBron James.
THE POWER OF THE BLACK WOMAN
“Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour” (Jeremiah 12:9).
Daughters of Jerusalem are the Hebrew Israelites. Some scholars believe the Shulamite woman is the Queen of Sheba and is known as Bilqis. She was a beautiful wealthy dark woman ruling two territories. More importantly, she stands in the presence of a handsome dusky man showering her with his bounty (1 King 10:13).
The key point, Solomon understood the pleasure of wealth was chasing after the wind with no ultimate purpose (Ecclesiastic 2:4-11). The main point in the passage is to show the black man his role as king taking care of his queen. Women today are absent from their king the father of their children; instead, they turn to the substitute, the government. If we taught our people their history, that they are endowed with wisdom. Their outlook on life would speak volumes. Solomon had breathtaking wisdom.
Kedar is Ishmael’s second son. Abraham is the father of Ishmael. Although both men have black skin, Abraham is Hebrew, and Ismael is Hebrew and Arab (2 Chronicles 17:11). Ishmael’s mother is Hagar an Egyptian. Society must answer the question, “why are dusky women downtrodden”? By YAH’s grace, he has imparted an important part of himself into the woman of color. Without her, the Savior would not have existed. As believers, we believe the Word of Yahweh is inerrant speaking through its original Hebrew, Greek, Arabic context.
I have another question, why do dusky women devalue themselves? Listening to them in the media they elevate the white woman above themselves. Only a slight pat or recognition is for the woman of color. The task is difficult in trying to get dusky men and women to see one another as brilliant. Solomon was an example. We have been given divine wisdom that overweighs the natural man (Romans 11:33; see also Job 9:1-4; 36:5; Isaiah 31:1-2).
Mary’s Hebrew name is, Miryam-rebellion. Without a doubt is the most influential woman in the Book and the world. She bore the Savior. Mary lived in Nazareth a beautiful dark or brown-skinned Afro-Asiatic woman. She was from the tribe of Judah. Are we listening to the conversations swirling around the black woman in the media? Finally, women of color are getting deserved recognition and sadly white women are angry. Think about the mockery and inappropriate chanting towards our first lady Michele Obama.
Ruth’s Hebrew name is, Ruwth-friendship, a Moabite linked to Lot. The Moabites' existence is due to Lot’s daughters who made him drunk. They desired to have children by their father to preserve his lineage (Genesis 19:32-33, 36-38). One daughter name Lot’s son Moab; he is the father of the Moabites. The name Lot a Hebrew from the tribe of Shem, or Eber, Abraham’s nephew. Ruth and Orpah intermarried with Hebrews, the sons of Naomi (Ruth 1:4). Ruth is the great-grandmother of King David. Yeshua's origin is from Ruth’s linage. Yeshua is the Hebrew name, and the English spelling is Joshua. Iesous is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name, and the English are Jesus. The name Jesus and Joshua are used interchangeably. Yeshua was not a Greek.
Delilah’s Hebrew name is, Dĕliylah-feeble, a Philistine woman from the linage of Canaan. Samson a dark-skinned man from the tribe of Dan, he wore plaits or locks. Her beauty was tantalizing to Samson. Huldah’s Hebrew name is, Chuldah-weasel, the prophetess a descendant of Joshua bins Nun (of the tribe of Ephraim). Ephraim the son of Joseph is the son of Jacob (Israel). Huldah was a renowned woman with keen discernment. Normally, Jeremiah would have been the prophet to deliver the message. However, in his absence, Huldah was given the authority to speak the mind of Yahweh (2 King 22:14-15).
Sarah’s Hebrew name is, Sarah-noble woman a princess was the biblical matriarch of the Hebrew people, the wife of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. She was strong and independent, taking matters into her own hand (Genesis 21: 12). Bithiah’s Hebrew name is Daughter of Yahweh. She is the Egyptian daughter of Pharaoh, and wife of Mered from the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:18). Bithiah discerned Moses to be a Hebrew and saved him from being killed (Exodus 1:16-17). Egypt is called the land of Ham, a collective name for Egyptians (Psalm 106:22).
Deborah's Hebrew name is, Dĕbowrah-bee, a powerful woman of color. She was Prophetess and Judge, contemporary with Shamgar, but was more prominent than he was (Judge 3:31; 4:1; 5:6). Even though living in a male-dominated culture, she served as head of state, commander-in-chief, and chief justice. Deborah’s position was sanction and ordained by YAH. She spoke on behalf of YAH (Judge 4:6), foretelling (Judge 4:7, 9), and influencing Barak to action (Judge 4:14). As commander-in-chief she called for her chief of staff, General Barak, the name means “thunderbolt."
Using the authority granted to her, she gives Barak, the military chief, a command from the Supreme Commander. Yahweh speaks through the commander-in-chief the order to retake the city (Judge 4:6). Although YAH had promised victory out of fear Barak said to Deborah, “if you don’t go with me, I won’t go” (Judge 4:8). Deborah agreed to accompany him but letting him know the consequences of his failure to trust YAH (Judge 4:9; 4:21). Amazing, in the book of Hebrew 11:32, Barak is listed among the heroes of faith instead of Deborah. This highly intellectual figure knew her position, and Yahweh’s divine order, man is the authoritative figure.
Through Deborah, it shows that a woman can be just as effective as any male leader. When you have divine backing, charisma, character, courage with competence, you are unstoppable. My mind reflects back to the three young women who started the Black Lives Matter Movement. These young folks are shaking the political system to its core, and people are unhappy.
Undoubtedly, we must see that our leadership for a season was halted. The true Hebrew Israelites disobeyed YAH by serving idol gods. Sadly, the practice and sin continue to this very day. We seem to worship the white people. They are unaware we are chosen to lead. I am keenly knowledgeable about the fact many religions believe they are sent to bring the world into Truth.
However, what biblical fact the assumption is based on? Scripture tells us who is called to spread the gospel, and how Satan makes continuous attempts to silence them (Deuteronomy 4:5-8). Scriptures define the Hebrew Israelites (Deuteronomy 7:6-8). Our history over centuries was hidden. It was completely wiped out and replaced with the white man’s history, which our children study today.
CNN featured a dark-skinned mom’s complaint about misleading facts written in a McGraw-Hill textbook. Roni Dean-Burren’s son a ninth-grader sent a page from the World Geography stating African slaves were brought over as “workers” and “immigrants." It was the Atlantic Slave Trade that forced and brought Africans to the United States. The misleading article gives the impression Africans received wages. McGraw-Hill is rewriting the language. Our history as previously mentioned is being sabotaged. What other lies are told to our children?