#GAReads | $1 million grant goes to record black women's histories

Ursula Burns, Photo credit: Fortune Live Media [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], via Flickr.

“$1 million grant from former head of Xerox goes to record black women’s histories”:

A trailblazer among black women in the business world wants to help make sure that the stories of other pioneering women like her are not forgotten.

The HistoryMakers, an oral archive that’s recorded the stories of more than 3,300 African Americans, launched The WomanMakers initiative with a $1 million gift from Ursula Burns, the former head of Xerox.

“We have to value our own stories,” Burns said in a phone interview about the project that will focus on African American women. “We have to teach ourselves to actually value ourselves in our society.”

Read Deepti Hajela’s full article at the Portland Press Herald here…