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The AMEZ NW Chicago Section of National Council of Negro Women, Inc. Chartered 1975.

02/25/2026

It’s the last Wednesday of Black History Month: Chicago Women Edition ❤️💚🖤!

Our final presentation is Reverend Willie Barrow, Social & Civil Rights Activist, as well as Co-Chair of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. From 1953 - 1965 she was a field organizer for Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, helping orchestrate the Selma, Alabama March. In 1968, she led a delegation to North Vietnam to orchestrate the Vietnam Peace Treaty. She was a founder member of Operating Breadbasket, which transformed to the nonprofit we know now, Rainbow/PUSH. She was also an active member of National Urban League & National Council of Negro Women 💜🤍.

Info Taken From: TheHistoryMakers.org & Chicago Detours.

02/24/2026

Hello everyone! The AMEZ NW Chicago Section is hosting a popcorn fundraiser partnering with locally black owned business ! Scan the QR code to access the shop. Different flavors & different sizes for you to enjoy!

Fundraiser ends March 1st so grab them soon!

02/18/2026

Black History Month: Chicago Women Edition ❤️💚🖤

Today I present to you Marva Collins, an educator who started Westside Preparatory School at the top floor of her home. She was also inventor of the “Marva Collin’s Approach” for teaching, which was about the importance of critical thinking and raising questions to reach understanding rather than memorization or rote learning. According to Collins, Collins’s student body consisted of children labeled problem or learning disabled, but by the end of the first year every child had surpassed his or her expectations.

In 2004, she was awarded the National Humanity Medal by President George W. Bush. Her ways of teaching turned into a book and a movie, both titled “The Marva Collins Way” and she wrote a second book titled “Ordinary Children, Exceptional Teachers.” Collins also opened schools in Milwaukee which is still open today & Cincinnati which closed in 2008 with the Chicago location.

Info Taken From: Afriwarebooks.com, National Endowment for the Humanities

02/17/2026

Black History Month: Chicago Women Edition 🖤💚❤️

This evening we present to you Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.

Best Known for her compilation of essays the Isis Papers, Dr. Welsing was known to give her own theory for racism based on her own reasonings. She claimed that racism is a mental illness created to prevent “genetic annihilation”. She focused on how racism impacts the psychological well-being of Black people, emphasizing the need for strong family structures and criticizing the systemic forces she believed weakened Black families. She served as an assistant professor of pediatrics at Howard University and worked as a child psychiatrist for the Department of Human Services in Washington, D.C.

Info Taken From: NPR, EBSCO, BlackPast.Org

02/14/2026

Happy Valentines Day from the AMEZ NW Chicago Section of NCNW. 🩷💜🤍

P.S, Black History Month Chicago Women Edition will resume Monday!

02/04/2026

Black History Month: Chicago Women Edition 🖤💚❤️

This Wednesday we present to you Dr. Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Artist, and the Co-Founder of Dusable Museum of African American Art in Chicago.

Dr. Burroughs attended the now known Englewood Technical Prep Academy alongside Gwendolyn Brooks. Dr. Burroughs graduated from Art Institute of Chicago with her Bachelors Degree in Arts Education and Masters of Arts. Dr. Burroughs got teaching certificates from the now known Chicago State University. With the help of her husband Charles and other ‘concerned citizens’, they Co-Founded the museum, then called Ebony Museum of Negro History right on the main floor of their house in 1961. (Pictured in the second slide.) It started by teaching classes on how to teach black history, and later moved into its current building in Washington Park once the house ran out of space.

Info Taken From: Smithsonian Museum Magazine Website & AfriWareBooks.com.

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