Delta's Stories of Triumph (DST in the News)

[MightyQuinn]

Originally posted by Proverbs31
Story of a young courageous Soror!!

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1585810

All I can think of to say at this moment is WOW!

[Ms Public Service]

This is such a wonderful story. Soror Bertha Carroll has inspired me to make some Delta Healthy Life style changes.

[soulfulremix]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
She does NOT look 90.

Black DON'T crack, CT4... I dont think there has ever been a better example of this. She is beautiful and blessed!

[Ms Public Service]

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. has been appointed the new National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women. Dr. Williams succeeds the late Dr. C. Delores Tucker.


http://www.npcbw.org/newweb/efw_bio_010306.pdf


http://www.npcbw.org/

[jitterbug13]

I have always walked by faith because they told me I'd never amount to nothing. They said I spent too much time talking about them people, and that thing.

But I've always believed that AIDS was going to test us. 20 years ago, good people, good God fearing people, Christian people pointed fingers and said, "They, them, those people. That disease is what they get." Now 20 years later that finger is pointing right back at them. At us! And I don't care if you're in the pulpit or in the pews, AIDS affects us all.

I've been doing activism for over 16 years. It all began back when I was in 'Dreamgirls.' I lived in Chelsea while performing on Broadway here in New York City back in the 80's when the disease had no name. It was a heinous time. I saw some strange things happen. I remember how people would just dump their family members off at the hospital ward because no one wanted to be around them, no one wanted to touch them. I remember that. I remember one day I was arguing with this man I was dating. We were sitting out in my car in front of my house. This guy came walking around the corner and behind him came a pack of men and they beat that man into the ground. I saw him lying in the snow. In my mind that was all wrong. It didn't matter who it was. When I was growing up my parents said, "If one of us suffers, we all suffer." So if I lived in the neighborhood and that could happen to someone, therefore by the grace of God go I.

We didn't come through the degradation of the 1960's to go out like this. This is something we can win on. When it comes to our health and our well being we as a black community can win. And if I have to be an army of one, then that is what I have to be then. I'll be the movement.

That's what 'Sometimes I Cry' is. It's a movement brought on by real stories about real God fearing women who are living with AIDS. I have two children, and when my children come into their sexual well-being, I do not want it to kill them. Redemption for us begins with a conversation; conversations with ourselves, our children and conversations with God. We cannot shy away from the conversations and the actions that can save our lives.

[ladygreek]

Hear! Hear!

[CrimsonTide4]

http://www.andreepickens.com

Not only is SOROR ANDREE PICKENS training for the Olympics, but she will be in the movie Stick It that premieres April 28, 2006. One of her chapter members just posted this on a DST list.

Kudos Soror Andree!!

Her official gymnastics bio: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/athlet.../apickens.html

[mulattogyrl]

Originally posted by ykimber
I just watched this video clip and I am in tears right now. This is a true example of sisterhood!

This story kinda hit home for me since I had my daughter while I was in college and I really had to work hard my last two years of school. Working full time going to school full time to make sure I would graduate.

I just watched this clip and I am in tears too. This hit home for me as well, because I had my daughter a year after I crossed, and I also had to work, go to school, and raise her. I just remember sorors looking after her at chapter meetings, holding her and tending to her when I was tired, even my line sisters sneaking up to see me in the hospital when I first had her, because they only allowed 'relatives', lol. This was a beautiful story.

[f8nacn]

Wow...that was a very inspiring story. Against all odds you can accomplish anything that you set your mind to do.

[Kimmie1913]

One of my close friends and chapter sorors' line sister is running for General Sessions Judge, Division III in Nashville, TN. PLEASE ASK THEM TO VOTE FOR ANGELITA BLACKSHEAR DALTON for General Sessions Judge, Division III. She is the youngest person and the only African American running...and if she wins she will have the distinction of the being the FIRST African American woman to be elected judge in the city of Nashville. Ramona (her line sister) is SO PROUD of Angelita for having the courage and conviction to show the world that we are not a lost generation, and we have shining examples for our children in our everyday walk and so am I!!! See her campaign website and news articles about her campaign below.

Here is a link to her campaign website: http://daltonforjudge.com/index.html

Here are links to others who endorse her:
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....604150315/1008
http://hi-heeleddesigns.blogspot.com...-vote-for.html
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/...ons_div3.shtml

Please pass this message on to anyone in the area!!!

Thanks for your help!

[divainred]

This is one of our very own, although it is not mentioned in this article...

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org...liver_2006_toy

[mulattogyrl]

Originally posted by divainred
This is one of our very own, although it is not mentioned in this article...

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org...liver_2006_toy

Congrats!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by divainred
This is one of our very own, although it is not mentioned in this article...

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org...liver_2006_toy

Thank you!! I kept asking a Soror who is a Hampton alum if she was a Soror and she never got back to me.

I read all that she does for her kindergarten class and felt proud of her. Kudos Soror Kimberly!!!

[divainred]

If she wins, she would become the youngest member of the CBC.
http://www.tinkerforcongress.com/

(She's a member of Memphis Alumnae Chapter)

About Nikki
At the age of 35, Nikki currently serves as the Vice President of Labor Relations for Northwest Airlink/Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. where she represents the airline before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. She is also responsible for overseeing the management of cases assigned to outside counsel, and manages a staff of attorneys and other professionals in matters concerning employment law and contract administration. In addition, she works daily with the airline’s unions to insure that the interest of the employee and management groups are met in the most effective and efficient manner.

Nikki is the product of a single-parent household, and was raised by her mother and grandmother (who raised 12 children) in the small town of Gadsden, Alabama. While her mother worked long hours, Nikki spent a large amount of her time with her grandmother who tragically lost her eyesight to diabetes when Nikki was seven years old. Nikki recalls the days of her grandmother sending her to the front porch to retrieve the mail, hoping that her social security check had arrived. Her grandmother needed the check to pay for her insulin and other personal needs. Nikki has stated that if she is elected to Congress, she will remind the members not to forget the children (and their grandparents) that are going to the porch looking for the check. Nikki's mother was in many respects like her father, in that she worked long hours to make sure that the bills were paid. Nikki credits these two women for establishing her need to serve others.

Nikki’s mother and grandmother always required her to stay active in her school and to participate in extra-curricular activities. While in high school, she became President of her senior class, served on the Mayor’s Advisory Counsel, represented her school at Girl’s State, and won a voice of democracy contest in which her award was her first trip to Washington, DC. While in college, at the University of Alabama, she served as an intern on Capitol Hill to U.S. Congressman Tom Bevill (D-AL). In 1993, Nikki received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with double minors in Political Science and Criminal Justice. Nikki proudly states that while in college, she worked as a waitress and as a hotel front desk clerk, jobs that she believes have molded her into the person that she is today.

Nikki earned her Masters of Science degree from Auburn University in 1994. In addition, she worked as a lobbyist for one of the three major lobbying firms in the State of Alabama. At that time, she was the youngest lobbyist in the state. She assisted in the passage of legislation through both houses of Alabama Government, and was an advocate for various civic and political action groups. She recalls working diligently to have Alabama legislators enact laws that would require every elementary school in the state to have guidance counselors.

She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1998, where she was the first African American to be elected president of the student body. While attending law school, she was a member of Who’s Who Among American Law School Students, a member of the Bench & Bar Legal Honor Society, awarded the Dean Thomas Christopher Award, and the Dean’s Award for Leadership and Service.

After graduating from law school, Nikki began her legal career in Birmingham as a trial lawyer at the law firm of Roberson & Roberson, LLP. There she represented poor and unemployed individuals in cases against large corporations. Her clients were those who had lost their jobs due to illegal workplace practices. On their behalf, Nikki litigated matters involving civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, personal injury, wrongful death and fraud. She also directed the daily operations of the statewide judicial re-election campaign of the Honorable Justice Ralph Cook, then the senior-most Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.

Nikki later relocated to Memphis and became an attorney with the law firm of Ford & Harrison LLP, a national practice labor and employment firm. While in private practice, she had offices both in Memphis and in Washington, D.C, and represented management in all aspects of employment litigation. Some of her representative clients include Nike, Inc., Hershey’s Foods, and Darden Restaurant’s Red Lobster and The Olive Garden. Her career has taken her throughout the country to resolve legal disputes. Nikki has also traveled extensively as a moderator of educational seminars, where she has offered training to managers and employees on relevant issues, including anti-harassment and diversity training. At the age of 33, she became the Vice President of Labor Relations for Northwest Airlink/Pinnacle Airlines.

For four years, Nikki proudly served as the Campaign Manager to U.S. Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. where she assisted in the management of his speaking engagements, fund-raising and community events, and performed legal and political research. Along with Congressman Ford, she has met with business leaders, the media, and attended civic and community functions throughout Washington, D.C. and Tennessee’s Ninth Congressional District. She was also a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nikki is licensed and admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Tennessee, and Alabama. She has also been sworn in and admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, being sworn in by a woman that she has admired since an early age, the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Nikki is a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal and National Bar Associations, along with the Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations.

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by divainred
This is one of our very own, although it is not mentioned in this article...

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org...liver_2006_toy

I just knew it! Congrats to Soror Kimberly on holding it down in the area of Educational Development.