Divas Sisterhood Mentoring Program

03/31/2026

✨ IT’S OFFICIAL ✨

Welp… I did a thang 💁🏽‍♀️💜

Divas Sisterhood Mentoring Program LLC is now officially registered in Ohio from NY 🎉

At Divas, we focus on preparing young girls for real life through:
💖 Confidence & Self-Esteem
👑 Leadership & Character
✨ Personality & Personal Growth
💰 Life & Money Skills
🤝 Service & Sisterhood
⚡️Etiquette & Posture

Our goal is to help girls grow into strong, confident, and purpose-driven young women 💕

Stay tuned… we’re just getting started ✨

03/04/2025

02/14/2025

Josephine Groves Holloway was born in South Carolina and moved to Tennessee in 1919.
She worked hard to put herself through college and earned a degree in Sociology from Fisk University in 1923.

After graduating, she became a Girls’ Worker at Bethlehem Center.
She then trained to be a Girl Scout Leader at George Peabody College for Teachers.
During her training in 1924, Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low officially made her a Captain, giving her the authority to form troops for Black girls at the Bethlehem Center.

Josephine started with over 150 girls in 10 different troops, and by the end of 1924, there were over 300 girls involved!
In the 1930s, after leaving the Center, she continued to form unofficial Girl Scout troops by following a copy of the Girl Scout handbook.
These troops became officially recognized and registered in 1943.

In 1955, Camp Holloway was opened in Millersville, Tennessee, named after Josephine Groves Holloway.
Pictures: Black-American Girl Scout Troop in Dixie

02/12/2025

Anna M. Mangin was an African American inventor. Little is known about her early childhood, but we do know that she was born in October 1854 in Louisiana. Anna Mangin invented the kitchen tool called the pastry fork and got it patented on March 1, 1892. The pastry fork was a tool that was in almost every domestic household. The utensil was used to mix dough for cookies, pie crusts, and other pastries without having to mix the ingredients together with their hands. The pastry fork was also used to beat eggs and mash potatoes. The pastry fork cut the time to make some of America’s favorite dishes💜✨

02/11/2025

𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂💜✨🤎

02/10/2025

Meet Donna Jean Barksdale, an 11-year-old who was one of the first Black students to integrate an all-white school in Arkansas back in 1955.

02/04/2025

𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱
𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂💜✨🤎

The Sisters of Black Wall Street Tulsa in 1906.

02/03/2025

I am so excited to be gearing up to start our trial run. {Columbus Oh} March 2025 Insert Happy Dance
💃🏾 💜✨

02/03/2025

𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱
𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂💜✨🤎

In 1964 Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology.

Young was born in 1899 in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and raised in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1923 and her master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1926.In 1924, her article “On the Excretory Apparatus in Paramecium” was published in the journal Science, making her the first African American woman to research and professionally publish in her field. In 1940, she earned her Ph. D. in Zoology from the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining her doctorate, Young held teaching positions at several colleges and wrote several books. (Today in African American History, 2024)

02/02/2025

𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱
𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂💜✨🤎

THE FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST BLACK WOMAN THAT WAS GRANTED AN PROFESSIONAL BOXING LICENSE IN NY:

Jackie Tonawanda was the first female boxer to become a member of Ring 8 (the Veterans Boxing Association) and to be inducted into their Hall of Fame, as well as the Madison Square Garden’s Hall of Fame. She has even been honored outside of the ring, thanks to her wide support for such charitable causes as Athletes Against Drunk Driving.

Tonawanda passed away in 2009 after a long battle with colon cancer.

02/01/2025

𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱
𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂💜✨🤎

The Owls Club was a Black women's softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women's Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick's Stadium which went on to become the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe's.

The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the Championship again in 1939. Left handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out 12 batters on the Manette team in the Championship game at the Civic Field which went on to become the site of Memorial Stadium.