Antoinette Broussard Farmer

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Antoinette Broussard Farmer is a writer, researcher, and public speaker committed to the pursuit and documentation of her ancestral roots. It's her desire to maintain and contribute to the memories of loved ones on Find A Grave.

Her first book, African American Holiday Traditions, pays homage to her African American culture and other ethnic groups in America who melded with the African American race. She has contributed biographies to the African American National Biography; Columbia Magazine; Harlem of the West; The Baobab Tree; BlackPast.org; Everything Has Its Place Anthologies; and Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, published by Rutgers University Press. Antoinette is a member of Coming To The Table (CTTT), a group that practices truth, justice, and healing. She's a storyteller for their Bittersweet Blog. Antoinette is the great niece of Nettie Craig Asberry (1865-1968), founder of the NAACP in Tacoma, Washington. More information can be found at www.antoinettebroussard.com.

MOTTO TO LIVE BY (discovered on PIN's profile)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

Hunter S. Thompson
Antoinette Broussard Farmer is a writer, researcher, and public speaker committed to the pursuit and documentation of her ancestral roots. It's her desire to maintain and contribute to the memories of loved ones on Find A Grave.

Her first book, African American Holiday Traditions, pays homage to her African American culture and other ethnic groups in America who melded with the African American race. She has contributed biographies to the African American National Biography; Columbia Magazine; Harlem of the West; The Baobab Tree; BlackPast.org; Everything Has Its Place Anthologies; and Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, published by Rutgers University Press. Antoinette is a member of Coming To The Table (CTTT), a group that practices truth, justice, and healing. She's a storyteller for their Bittersweet Blog. Antoinette is the great niece of Nettie Craig Asberry (1865-1968), founder of the NAACP in Tacoma, Washington. More information can be found at www.antoinettebroussard.com.

MOTTO TO LIVE BY (discovered on PIN's profile)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

Hunter S. Thompson

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