MIDWIN CHARLES TV
“What she really meant to the Haitian community was that she was this brilliant, clear-eyed, influential voice on TV and in society that was just telling people the way that it is, speaking really plainly about complex legal issues,” Alcindor said in an interview with The Haitian Times. Charles (left) with District 42 Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn (middle), in 2014.
MIDWIN CHARLES PROFESSIONAL
PBS NewsHour White House Correspondent and fellow MSNBC contributor Yamiche Alcindor said she knew Charles as a professional colleague for more than four years. Within 24 hours of her passing, Charles, who was 47, was commemorated by prominent Haitian-Americans, media personalities, political leaders and ordinary people who knew her as an on-air personality. An attorney, legal analyst for CNN and MSNBC and radio host on New York’s 107.5 WBLS, Charles captured viewers’ hearts and minds on the air, with her brilliant legal analysis. It’s a sentiment shared by thousands on social media who shared the somber news. The news of Charles’ death on April 6 left Pierre-Louis “gutted and devastated,” she said.
“ represents so much for women in the law, not just for the Haitian community but for the Black community as a whole, she is a role model.” “We spent time celebrating one another’s birthdays, she was certainly there for me when my mother passed away,” said Pierre-Louis, chair of The Haitian Roundtable who co-founded the organization in 2008. A lunch in Manhattan became the beginning of a long friendship and professional collaboration, through The Haitian Roundtable. While you still have the breath of life in you.In 2007, a colleague approached Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, suggesting she meet with a fellow Haitian-American attorney – Midwin Charles. And you better do what you are called to do. The news tonight of is just another reminder of how short this life is. For me, like many of you, her death was yet again a reminder of what I posted on Tuesday night: “I’ve been taking some time off for #selfcare and re-ordering my life. And I know that Midwin had so much more left to give the world too. I have so much more I plan to do in my life, should God grant me that grace. It is the only thing we can take with us. Because at the end of the day that is what it all comes down to. But more than things, money and homes, I have left letters, made a video, left journals, books, and I hope most of all that I have left them a legacy of love. My nieces will get all I have and they will get a lot.
MIDWIN CHARLES UPDATE
I update it every few years so that, should I die as a younger woman, and predecease my parents, one sibling, etc., I have everything in order. As an attorney myself, I had my will and estate planning done years ago. Midwin Charles (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for NAACP LDF) We give and we give and we give some more. Midwin was someone I really liked and admired, because she had the same gene I do - the “how can I help you?” and “what do you need?” which is like a reflex for women like us. It is so important that we as Black women help one another, uplift one another and be there for one another in whatever we are going through.
Make sure that in this race called life that you remember to live some life, sisters.
Find spaces that welcome you, love you and applaud you, and most of all, support you. To get the COVID vaccine, and to take care of yourself.
I wanted to write this piece in Midwin’s honor and memory because I want to remind my fellow Black women out there to slow down. Nelson offers keys to unlock fulfilling life with ‘The Woman Code’ We carry when we so need to “cast” off the things that burden us so uniquely as strong, professional, entrepreneurial Black women. She carried the silent weight that we all carry. We do not yet know for sure what her cause of death is but I know on many of our Twitter rants, we talked about healthcare, the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs like an “epipen.” She was a woman on her own (yes with family and friends) but running her own law firm, being a social justice warrior, and like far too many of us, always having to fight the microaggressions and day-to-day struggles of being Black and female in America. And we are fierce defenders of justice, racial equity, gender equity and making sure we as Black women have a seat at the table with everyone else. We often talked about the burdens of being a Black female in our time. Midwin had so much more left in her to do. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
0 kommentar(er)
