The book that raised $4,000 for ACLU and NAACP in 25 days!
To celebrate Black History Month, I decided to illustrate one inspiring Black woman a day, for the entire month of February 2017.
This is the digital, printable coloring book that combines all 28 of the drawings.
See the GoFundMe story that launched this project: https://www.gofundme.com/afroamericancoloring
Women featured:
1. Michelle Obama (First Lady)
2. Angela Davis (activist, scholar, and author)
3. Zadie Smith (novelist)
4. Carole Moseley Braun (senator)
5. Alice Walker (writer, womanist)
6. Nina Simone (musician and activist)
7. Kara Walker(artist)
8. Serena Williams (tennis superheroine)
9. Condoleeza Rice (Secretary of State)
10. Julia de Burgos (poet and Puerto Rican independence advocate)
11. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (novelist)
12. Ntzoke Shange (playwright)
13. Misty Copeland (ballerina)
14. Madame CJ Walker (entrepreneur and philanthropist)
15. Michelle J Howard (United States Navy admiral)
16. Kathleen Battle (operatic soprano)
17. Roxane Gay (writer)
18. Marta Moreno-Vega (scholar, cutural advocate)
19. Katherine Johnson (physicist and mathematician)
20. Jackie Ormes (cartoonist)
21. Gwendolyn Brooks (Pulitzer-winning poet)
22. Celia Cruz (Cuban singer and actress)
23. Faith Ringgold (artist)
24. Shirly Chisholm (politician, educator and author)
25. Carrie Mae Weems (artist)
26. Mae C. Jemison ( engineer, physician and NASA astronaut)
27. Nancy Morejón (Cuban essayist, poet, critic)
28. Audre Lorde (writer, activist)