About Us

Welcome to AMillionMoreLikeMe.com!
We greet you, my sisters, with the warmest of affections.

Our Mission

We at A Million More Like Me would like to introduce to you a website for the African American woman coming of age. A Million More Like Me seeks to find a million or more black women who have reached any level of success and wish to share their experiences, unite with one another and give back to the African American community.

Our mission and vision is to provide a place where you can come and feel loved, cherished and respected for who you are and be recognized for your contributions to our society at large.

About Me

I know for a fact that we as black women have had our struggles and we have also had our moments of triumph and exhilaration. I, who once dreamed of this website that is now my reality, have had my share of both. Through my joys and sorrows, ups and downs and sometimes disappointment after disappointment, I am still able to carry the message inside me that I bring to you now. That message is “if I can do it, then a million more like me can do it.”

Here is my story in a nutshell.

In the early 80’s, I was looked upon as a typical African American statistic. My mom died when I was 14. I was pregnant at 17. I went from receiving public assistance (welfare) to a dead end job with a hand-me-down car and a subsidized apartment. I received no substantial support from my baby’s father and when I tried to attend college to make something of myself I got no emotional or financial support from my family. I was tossed out by my stepmother at age 20 after my financial aid for college was cut down to almost nothing. I worked at Roy Rogers and then Giant Food in order to survive. After 11 years and no real progress I decided to join the Army at age 31 so I could get my degree, purchase a house and get a better job. I went in the army as a 75 Foxtrot (Personnel Manager) and there honed my computer skills. When I got out I started my new career, first as a temp and then, 3 years later, as a Quality Assurance Specialist for a satellite company. I then bought my first house, went back to college and earned my B.A. in Business Administration.

After 6 years, the satellite company down-sized me. Seeing it happening to others around me, I knew enough to put away the maximum I could save in my 401K which was 15% of my income. Saved annually for 4 years, that 15% amounted to $20,000 in savings over the period. When I got laid off in 2004 I declared to myself that I was not going to work for anyone else anymore.

I immediately started my own used car business which lasted only 6 months before my funds started to dwindle. I then went for a temp job as a receptionist; left there a few months later for a position as Executive Assistant and after 5 months I went for a position as Project Manager where I was again making $56K a year. That job only lasted a month when I couldn ’t get the hang of working for this employer and could not muster the appropriate attitude to deal with them. I realized then that I literally could not successfully work as an employee for another company again without feeling like I was giving in and settling for a position that was not worth the money. As I continued my search for independence I was a bit downtrodden but not discouraged.

About 2 months later while looking for suitable permanent or contract work, I happened onto a company that was the answer to my prayers. This company immediately recognized my skills and abilities and at the end of my job interview they upgraded the contract position I applied for from Project Assistant to Project Manager. Several months down the road they promoted me to Business Development Manager, working from home 4 days a week. It was the job of my dreams. And it was with the full support of my employer (who believed in me from day one) that I bring you this website now. To read my full story, please look for me in the Bios section of this website.

Now, I said all that to say this again, “If I can do it then I know there are a million more black women out there that have done it. If you are someone who has fulfilled your dream or are even in still in the process then we want your story on amillionmorelikeme.com!

About the Website

Here you can not only publish your bio, but you can link your story to your own website, advertise your African American Woman Owned Business, become a sponsor and get your logo or banner placed strategically on the site. You can also become a voting board member, a writer or editor, whenever the need arises (just send us your resume and a writing sample). We are always looking for new volunteers.

Everyday we will add the nation ’s top News stories affecting African Americans everywhere. Every week we will feature new videos of people you know and some that you don’t. That’s right you can post a video of yourself telling your story and if it passes regulations then it will be posted in our ‘Video Spotlight’ section on the homepage. Every month you will have an opportunity to choose your favorite from the Bios posted on this site. Those voted in the top three will each win a cash prize. How does that sound so far? Good huh, but it gets even better…we are also building a biographic database of historically famous black women that will depict the lives of heroic black women from the 1600’s through today. Look for it, it is coming soon…

Inside the pages of AMillionMoreLikeMe.com there are articles written by you and specifically for you. You can login everyday and get a word of encouragement, financial advice, learn about new products, meet new people like yourself, read new bios, discuss your favorite topics, view statistics, meet black authors and new artists, post your event, get the latest in Black news, entertainment, sports and much more.

But the main goal of this website is to post the stories of a million or more African American women who have proudly risen to become role models of success today. The stories that others like you and those who wish to aspire to your level will never hear unless your story is told. We want to hear your stories of struggle, hard times, survival, triumph and victory.  People everywhere need to hear where you came from and how you arrived to your place of significance and the message that you have brought along with you.

We know you have a story to tell and we would like to hear from all of our sisters whether you are an average everyday U.S. citizen, an entrepreneur, a political figure, songstress, government worker, an athlete, college student or movie star. If you are a role model of any kind we want to see your personal story on this site. But we want the honest to God – true story and not the glossed-over, Hollywood version. If you have the guts to tell it then we want to hear it.

Subscribe

Because we want to hear from every one of our sisters in every age group, of every marital status, at every level of success, you can subscribe to this site and publish your story for only $1 per month ($12 per year). Your contributions will go toward the administrative cost of keeping the website current and adding on a non-profit charity for the economically disadvantage. That’s right; our goals are not only to have our stories told and discuss our issues but to also be active in resolving them for other African Americans who are not as fortunate as we have been.

This website is about you, to reward you, to cherish and appreciate you for all you have accomplished to help make this nation what it is today. We want to hear it all so that we may truly get to know each other and band together as sisters in a nation that has not yet heard our call for equality and respect.

Maya Angelou says it best in her poem read at the Million Man March
The night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark,
And the walls have been steep.
Under a dead blue sky on a distant beach,
I was dragged by my braids just beyond your reach.
Your hands were tied, your mouth was bound,
You couldn't even call out my name.
You were helpless and so was I,
But unfortunately throughout history
You've worn a badge of shame.
I say, the night has been long,
The wound has been deep,
The pit has been dark
And the walls have been steep.
But today, voices of old spirit sound
Speak to us in words profound,
Across the years, across the centuries,
Across the oceans, and across the seas.
They say, draw near to one another,
Save your race.
You have been paid for in a distant place,
The old ones remind us that slavery's chains
Have paid for our freedom again and again.
The night has been long,
The pit has been deep,
The night has been dark,
And the walls have been steep.
The hells we have lived through and live through still,
Have sharpened our senses and toughened our will.
The night has been long.
This morning I look through your anguish
Right down to your soul.
I know that with each other we can make ourselves whole.
I look through the posture and past your disguise,
And see your love for family in your big brown eyes.
I say, clap hands and let's come together in this meeting ground,
I say, clap hands and let's deal with each other with love,
I say, clap hands and let us get from the low road of indifference,
Clap hands, let us come together and reveal our hearts,
Let us come together and revise our spirits,
Let us come together and cleanse our souls,
Clap hands, let's leave the preening
And stop impostering our own history.
Clap hands, call the spirits back from the ledge,
Clap hands, let us invite joy into our conversation,
Courtesy into our bedrooms,
Gentleness into our kitchen,
Care into our nursery.
The ancestors remind us, despite the history of pain
We are a going-on people who will rise again.
And still we rise.

Please join www.amillionmorelikeme.com

A website that is for you, inspired by you and created by you, to show America who we really truly are.

Contact Us at:

A Million More Like Me, LC
P.O. Box (000)
Baltimore, MD 21215
Or Email:
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I would like to offer a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to each and every one of you in advance for your membership