Bellydance workout class: LET’S DO US! Series

You are invited to let loose and have fun with a Bellydance workout class led by Chantal Dos Santos on June 25, 2020, during the LET’S DO US! series created by Black Women in Europe (®) to be a part of our solution for surviving and thriving in these uncertain COVID-19 days, weeks, and months.

Chantal Dos Santos

Chantal Dos Santos
Chantal is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on dance. She has been active in improvisation, Contemporary dance, Afro-Caribbean, and Oriental Dance in addition to a variety of world folk dances. Chantal is recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts as a Cultural Connector and has been funded by both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council to undertake choreography projects in Canada and abroad. As a teacher, her course offerings have included: Holistic Bellydance, Afro-Caribbean Dance, Dance Improvisation, Movement Meditation, Supple & Strong: Hip and Pelvic Floor Training, and SocaFit. Chantal splits her time between Canada, Barbados, and Germany. Find out more about Chantal’s work at cdsmovement.com and under her stage name ‘Jomana’ at bellydancebarbados.com

​Bellydance Workout

Using fundamental Bellydance movements, this gentle yet full-body workout focuses on mobilizing your body and enlivening your spirit. Suitable for all levels of ability, this workout emphasizes the balanced wellness of mind, body, and spirit. 

Registration is required and limited to 100 participants.

LET'S DO US!

FAWCO announces the 2020 Resolutions and Recommendations Chair

FAWCO

I am proud to be a part of this FAWCO team.

Adrianne George

As anyone knows who has tried to describe FAWCO in a few brief sentences, our four pillars of Club Support, Philanthropy, Global Issues and US Issues encompass a world of issues.  Through examining our efforts every two years, we ask our Resolutions and Recommendations Committee to articulate the issues most important right now to the FAWCO Membership and help us focus our energies around our shared core values. We are not a political organization, but there are many issues where agreement can be found amongst our membership. The R&Rs are voted on by our FAWCO clubs at our Biennial Conference, and they are referenced regularly by the board and all our volunteers.  Christine Rigby Hall (AWC Amsterdam)has agreed to serve as FAWCO’s Resolutions and Recommendations Chair.  Christine impressed greatly as the Chair of the 12-member Target Selection Committee, leading the group through a comprehensive review of fifteen excellent project proposals and eventually selecting the top three for consideration of the FAWCO Clubs.

She studied Psychology and received a BA from the University of Kentucky and an MS from Springfield College.  Christine developed professional experience in the fields of Talent Acquisition, Development and Management and has a great track record of leading teams through complicated analysis and transitions.  She will be working with a R&R team to include Deanna Brittain (AWC Basel), Karen Castellon (AWC Berlin), and Adrianne George (AWC Gothenberg, AWC Malmö, AWC Stockholm). 

Let’s do us! Together we can survive and thrive during this virus crisis.

Let's do us!

We can help each other if we pool our resources, offer moral support and share our expertise.

Take this unprecedented opportunity life has given us to make a difference in our local and global communities by sharing, learning, and giving.

1. Gift your services or products and be included in a curated list of resources for women and families to keep it together during self or government-imposed lockdown.

2. Share your expertise as a panelist in a series of workshops that will cover topics from prioritizing work and life balance to homeschooling.

3. List your online business in our directory exclusively for black women in Europe to be discovered by black women and others everywhere.

The link to the participation form can be found on Facebook in our group for women in Europe and in our group for women around the world.

If you have other ideas we can implement just email me on contact (at) blackwomenineurope.com

I so appreciate your support and what you give me by reading this post. LET’S DO US!

xx Adrianne

“Five Clicks Up From Trailer Trash” is what she called Meghan Markle

Source: Buzzfeed

A clip of an MSNBC guest referring to Meghan Markle as “five clicks up from trailer trash” on air Saturday has gone viral and is being cited as an example of why she and husband Prince Harry have chosen to step back as working members of the royal family for a one-year review period.

During the MSNBC Live segment, British reporter Victoria Mather, who was incorrectly identified on the show as a “Vanity Fair Royals Watcher,” said that the Duchess of Sussex has been “disrespectful” to the royal family and its protocol.

“I think what is real has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen,” she said. “And the queen is the most respected person, most respected woman, in the world.”

Read the full story, and send in the names and website links of organizations in Europe that support black women to contact@bwiesmg.org.

Research shows youth with migration background outperforming ethnic Danish youth in education

New research shows that young people with a non-Western background are more likely to achieve higher education than ethnic Danish young people. Overall, migrants and refugees have lower educational levels than ethnic Danes, and children with non-Western backgrounds get lower grades in school. But a study by the independent think tank DEA finds that the opposite is true after controlling for parents? income and other socioeconomic factors.

In other words, a young person growing up in Denmark with non-Western parents is more likely to end up getting a higher education than an ethnic Danish peer if their parents have the same level of income.

Read the full story.

Accepting the Sisterhood of Greatness Award

Sisterhood Agenda

It truly was an amazing day at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC for the Sisterhood Agenda Sisterhood of Greatness Award Ceremony.

Angela Coleman, Founder & President of Sisterhood Agenda, 2nd from L – Adrianne George, Founder of Black Women in Europe, 3rd from R – Ayana Coleman-Dixon, Sisterhood Agenda Secretary, and Blanche A. Williams, author of the Sisterhood Manifesto.

The ancestors truly were with us in the Oprah Winfrey Theater and I am grateful and proud to have accepted this award for all of the Black Women in Europe family.

Time for our 10th Black Women in Europe? Power List: A List of Our Own?

Power List

This year we the Black Women in Europe? Blog will publish their 10th Power List.

Is that amazing or what? I say amazing. Amazing that we celebrate us. Amazing that we have so many to celebrate. Amazing that 10 years has passed so quickly.

If you know of a black woman in Europe doing amazing, against the odds, inspiring things, send their names and links to contact (at) blackwomenineurope.com

View the previous lists below to see who has been honored in the past.

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2018 ? A List of Our Own?

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2017 ? A List of Our Own?

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2016 ? A List of Our Own?

Read their inspirational biographies.

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2015 ? A List of Our Own?

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2014 ? A List of Our Own?

Read their inspirational biographies.

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2013 ? A List of Our Own?


Read their inspirational biographies
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Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2012 – A List of Our Own?

Read their inspirational biographies.

Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2011 – A List of Our Own?

Read their inspiring biographies.

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Black Women in Europe?: Power List 2010 – A List of Our Own?

Read their inspirational biographies.

Join the Black Women in Europe? Kiva team.

BWIE Kiva Team

Since 2013 the Black Women in Europe? Kiva team has grown to 8 members and has provided $250 in loans. Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Our collective efforts will make a difference to an individual, a group, and a community.

Let?s support women. You don?t have to wait to start giving as part of our team. Choose a project and click on the amount you would like to donate. Remember as little as $25 is all that is needed. You?ll be taken to your basket where you can select what lending team your loans should count towards. Beneath the ?Count Towards Team? column, you?ll see a drop down box with Black Women in Europe??s lending team listed. Click that box and select the Black Women in Europe??s lending team and the loan to will count towards our team.

Thank you and Go Team!

Humbled – Sisterhood Agenda Award

Dear Adrianne,

I want to say ?Congratulations!??Sisterhood?Agenda?would like to present?you?and?Black Women in Europe?with our new?Sisterhood?of?Greatness?Award.??The?awards ceremony will take place at our gathering, Celebrating?Sisterhood:? 25 Years of Service, at the?Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. on?Saturday, November 16, 2019 from 1:00pm-5:00pm.? Will you be able to join us?

As a long-standing Sisterhood Agenda global partner, this is our time to shine! Our first Sisterhood of Greatness Awards are presented to several founders and activists who represent and exemplify a code of excellence in consciousness, character, and conduct. Celebrating our 25-year anniversary is a testament to the collective spirit and strength of our constituency including over 5,000 global agencies throughout 36 countries, who share our purposeful focus on women and girls while growing a powerful force for positive social change.

During the devastating 2017 storms, hurricanes Irma and Maria, our newly opened SEA: Sisterhood Empowerment Academy on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands was severely damaged. We rebuilt it, stronger than ever, and remain vigilant in our ongoing support of millions of women and girls through partnerships, training, projects, programs, and products.

To mark this occasion, we decided to share our 25-year anniversary within our sisterhood by spotlighting the efforts of other amazing women and girls who have made a difference by standing up, stepping out and lifting us up to make the world a better place. Together, we realize the collective bond and power we impose when eradicating the issues we choose to champion. Therefore, we commemorate our anniversary by celebrating others!

Sisterhood is the foundation for collective empowerment. Our sisterhood is diverse and inclusive because we are all unique. Striving for meaningful connection, we want women and girls to know that they are never alone.

Knowing that time is of the essence, we hope that you can join us for this special event.  Please reply regarding award acceptance and participation in the award ceremony at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as soon as possible.  Thank you for all that you do.

In the Spirit of Sisterhood,

Angela D. Coleman, MBA, CNM

Sisterhood Agenda

         

??Celebrating?Sisterhood:? 25 Years of Service?

Royal Insult: Danny Baker apologises for ?racist? royal baby tweet as he swiftly deletes monkey picture

Royal insult

Danny Baker of BBC Radio 5 made the ultimate insult to Meghan and Prince Harry by equating their son with a monkey via a Twitter post yesterday. While those who cared are celebrating a new life and a healthy mother, he is tearing down black women and their children everywhere.

Once the shit hit the fan here is what the looser racist had to say to his 500,000+ followers of which at least 91 had liked it before he removed the “let me show you who I really am Tweet” was removed:

?Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased. ?Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that?s it. ?Now stand by for sweary football tweets.?–Danny Baker

In the meantime, he still has  a Twitter account and a job at the BBC. I am steaming. Are you?

Read the Metro article on the racist who tweeted this monkey picture in response to the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s first child.

Thanks to iDNetwork for alerting us to this via LinkedIn.

  1. If you think the picture depicting Meghan’s baby is a. funny or b. not racist, comment here so we can have a proper discussion about why you are so wrong.
  2. Help us build the most comprehensive directory of organizations across Europe that support black women. This tool should be within reach of everyone who needs it. Send your links to contact@bwiesmg.org. Thank you.