![]() ![]() “If someone had told me then ‘you’re going to leave a mark,’ I wouldn’t have understood it,” Mustakeem said. Louis, where she still teaches today.Īs she looks back on all she’s accomplished since that life-changing trip to Philadelphia 24 years ago, Mustakeem is grateful and understandably amazed by where her story has taken her. She would become the first Black professor to earn tenure in the Department of History at Washington University in St. ![]() The experience would propel her to become an award-winning author whose work is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. It was a spark that would ignite in her a deeper love for Black history and redirect her toward becoming a leading scholar in the field. That event – the Million Woman March – would prove to be a pivotal point in Mustakeem’s story. That’s when she and two friends traveled to Philadelphia, joined by roughly 750,000 other Black women, to cry out for social and economic development in America’s Black community. 25, 1997, is a day Sowande’ Mustakeem will never forget. ![]()
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