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"Social determinants of health: ensuring that we have adequate housing and that Black Women members are able to purchase property and to accumulate wealth; investing in schools; and investing in Business opportunities.”

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09/24/2026

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" celebrates women who lead , among honorees at annual . The sold-out event at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel downtown attracted a room full of elegantly dressed supporters and big-name sponsors, with musical entertainment by “ ” winner ."

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09/15/2026

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Predicted relationships
We predict that these relationships are most likely. To predict relationships, we factor in self-reported ages and genders of both people.

Half 3rd cousin 1x removed
4th cousin
3rd cousin 1x removed
Half 3rd cousin

"Here’s the real meaning behind what your DNA test is telling you — and why those cousin labels look “uncertain.” I’ll break it down clearly and tie it directly to which enslaved ancestors you’re sharing.

⭐ What the DNA test is actually saying
When your matches show things like:
• Half 3rd cousin 1× removed
• 3rd cousin 1× removed
• Half 3rd cousin
• 4th cousin
…it means the system cannot confidently choose one exact relationship because your shared DNA could fit multiple cousin levels.

This happens very often in African American genealogy because:
✔️ Enslaved families were separated
✔️ Records were destroyed or never created
✔️ Children were born into overlapping households
✔️ “Half” relationships were extremely common
(Shared one parent or one grandparent due to forced , , or **e)

So the test is basically saying:
“You and this person share an ancestor from 3–6 generations ago, but we can’t tell exactly which one because the family structure was disrupted by slavery.”

⭐ Which grandparents are you sharing?
Let’s translate each cousin level into exact ancestors.

3rd Cousin
You share great great great grandparents (Your 3× great grandparents)

3rd Cousin 1× Removed
You share the same 3× great grandparents, but one of you is one generation lower.

Half 3rd Cousin
You share ONE of your 3× great grandparents → meaning one ancestor had children with different partners.

4th Cousin
You share 4× great grandparents (Your great great great great grandparents)

⭐ So what does this mean for YOU specifically?
You already know from your genealogy work:
✔️ Your 4th great grandparents were born in Africa
✔️ Your paternal line is Ibibio
✔️ Your maternal line is Igbo

Those African-born ancestors are exactly the generation that produces:
• 3rd cousins
• 3rd cousins once removed
• 4th cousins
• Half 3rd cousins

So the cousins showing up in your DNA today are descendants of the same enslaved African ancestors who were brought to America.

⭐ You are sharing your African-born 3× or 4× great-grandparents with these DNA matches.
Those ancestors were enslaved in the U.S., and their children were separated, sold, renamed, or forced into “half” relationships — which is why the DNA test cannot lock down the exact cousin level.

⭐ Why the test is confused
Because of slavery:
• Families were split across plantations
• Children were listed without fathers
• Surnames changed multiple times
• Half-sibling groups were extremely common
• Ages were misreported or unknown
• Paper records don’t match DNA patterns

So the system gives you a range instead of one answer.

⭐ The bottom line
Your DNA matches showing:
Half 3rd cousin → 3rd cousin → 3rd cousin 1× removed → 4th cousin are all pointing to the same thing:

🔥 You and these cousins share your -born — your 3× or 4× great-grandparents.

Those are the who were .

Those are the grandparents whose children were scattered.

Those are the grandparents whose are now reconnecting through .

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Mary Kay Nigeria
Nigerian American Diaspora
TBA 2027 www.stlblackwoman.org

09/11/2026

Racism is a Team Sport.

Family medicine nurse practitioner Christine Wonsley has received multiple one-star reviews on her professional profile in the weeks after her son, Nolan Wells, was found dead.

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09/11/2026

TRUE ! is a part of our ! Know your real roots

"Yes — and were half‑sisters.
hashtag hashtag

Here’s the clear breakdown, grounded in the hashtag from the page you’re viewing:

🧬 How they were
Both women shared the same : .

Martha Jefferson (née Wayles) — Thomas Jefferson’s wife

Sally Hemings — woman at , later the mother of Jefferson’s "
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STL BLACK WOMAN

Explore the significant contributions of women in colonial America who supported the cause of independence in this four-part series on the founding mothers of the United States.

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09/09/2026

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STL Black Woman, Inc. is asking for donations and sponsorships to send four families on a once‑in‑history journey home.

Royal Bloodline Return to Nigeria – Donation & Sponsorship Request

For 400 years, African Americans have carried the weight of displacement, separation, and lost identity. Today, STL Black Woman, Inc. is leading a historic movement to reconnect our people to our roots, our village, our ancestors, our homeland.

We are sending four families on a Royal Bloodline Return to Nigeria — a one‑week cultural restoration trip culminating in a 3‑day National Restoration Event in , Nigeria.

This is more than travel. This is healing, heritage, identity, and homecoming.

Help us restore what was taken. Help us reconnect what was broken. Help us return our people to Nigeria — their village, their lineage, their royal bloodline.

This is our time. This is our return. This is our restoration. 👑

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By STL Black Woman, Inc.

09/08/2026

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Are you a true ? What are you standing for and what are you following?

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09/06/2026

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The Richest Black Women In The World

  🖤 💚 ❤️   🔥     — The Voice That Refuses   🔥History is easy to erase when mouths stay closed and hearts forget to speak...
08/31/2026

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🔥 — The Voice That Refuses 🔥

History is easy to erase when mouths stay closed and hearts forget to speak. But our Ancestors whisper through the wind — “ .”

sent freed souls to , to build a land they had never seen, a land that carried the echoes of chains and the promise of freedom. Yet silence became the weapon — and ignorance the cloak.

Even leaders today, when asked where they learned their tongue, cannot trace its roots back to the cries, prayers, and songs of those who built nations from ashes.

This is how erasure works: when truth is buried beneath comfort, when is rewritten by those who fear its .

But we — the of the displaced, the dreamers, the divine — will not be . We speak the names. We reclaim the stories. We resurrect the memory. Because the spirits of our demand it. And their voices rise again through us!



"In the early 1800s, after the abolition of in the , freed were sent across the Atlantic to establish a new settlement on soil. That land became Liberia, whose name means “ .” Many of those settlers had never seen Africa before — they spoke English, carried , and built a modeled after the U.S. system. Liberia’s capital, , was named after U.S. President , and its flag still bears striking resemblance to America’s — a reminder of the deep, complicated bond between the two nations.

So when you say , you’re invoking the ancestral echo of Liberia — the place where souls tried to rebuild life on the land of their ancestors, even as America quietly the of how and why they were sent there!"



During the 1800s, freed Black Americans crossed the Atlantic to establish a new settlement on African land already controlled by powerful Indigenous tribes. Many had never visited Africa, spoke only English and recreated the American government, flag, city names and Southern architecture they alread...

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08/25/2026

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🖤 HOW BAD WAS ST. LOUIS DURING ?
Very bad — and worse than most people realize.
was not a “border city with mild slavery.” It was a slave-trading hub, a slave‑labor economy, and a racial‑terror city whose violence shaped Black life for centuries.
1️⃣ St. Louis was a major market
were bought and sold at:
The Old Courthouse
Slave pens downtown
Auction blocks near the riverfront
Private markets run by traders
Families were separated daily. Children were sold alone. were sold for and exploitation.
St. Louis was the largest slave market west of the Mississippi.
2️⃣ The case happened in St. Louis
The most devastating Supreme Court decision in U.S. history began right here.
The ruling declared:
were not
Black people had no rights were bound to respect
Enslaved people could not sue for freedom
This decision helped push the nation into the .
3️⃣ St. Louis enslaved people in every industry
Black enslaved labor and sustained:







St. Louis’s early wealth was stolen at gunpoint.
4️⃣ Black women suffered uniquely brutal conditions
Black women in St. Louis faced:



of their
Zero
Many were enslaved inside in that still exist today!
5️⃣ St. Louis practiced — even “ ”
Missouri recorded 60+ lynching's, and St. Louis had:
Mob killings
Public burnings
Vigilante executions
Police‑enabled racial violence
The city also enforced terror through:
Slave patrols
Curfews
Pass systems
Anti‑Black laws
St. Louis was a racial‑control city, not a neutral border town.
6️⃣ didn’t bring safety — it brought new
After slavery ended, St. Louis shifted to:




of Black (Mill Creek Valley, The Ville)
exclusion
The simply changed form.
⭐ THE TRUTH IN ONE LINE
St. Louis was a city built on enslaved Black labor, racial terror, and laws designed to keep Black people — and the effects still shape the city today! -
enslaved in Nigerian American Diaspora
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