Renaissance Women

It is an honor and a pleasure to communicate directly with my growing audience. I have included in this first volume of a number of volumes I plan to have published five of the greatest renaissance women in the African Diaspora. These women are different and yet each of them shares a trait which I so greatly admire -- creative determinism. They discovered a purpose within themselves and continued on their march to destiny fame sometimes riches sometimes ignominy always triumphant over the ills of a world which is in fact still discovering itself; but which in its blind fury has ground civilizations people and ideas into the dust.The indestructible African Diasporan Woman I have chosen for this volume are Ethel Waters Valaida Snow Billie Holiday Zora Neale Hurston and Winifred Mandela.