- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 16 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Entrepreneur and magazine editor Monique Greenwood was born on June 22, 1959 in Washington, D.C. She attended Howard University where she graduated magna cum laude with her B.A. degree in communications in 1981. Greenwood then worked fifteen years with Fairchild Publications, where she created a monthly trade magazine, the Children's Business. In 1992, Greenwood published her first book Go On Girl! Book Club Guide to Reading Groups. In 1995, Greenwood and her husband purchased an old house and opened their first Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast in Brooklyn, New York. In 1996, she began working at Essence magazine and became the editor and chief of the magazine in 2000. After her 2001 book Having What Matters: The Black Woman's Guide to Creating the Life You Really Want was published, Greenwood left Essence to focus on her business. Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns has expanded to locations throughout the East Coast.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Monique Greenwood
- Monique Greenwood
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 1003150571
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Monique Greenwood.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
031649
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2007 October 11.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Lodging Entrepreneur Magazine Lifestyle Editor.
- Added Author
Greenwood, Monique, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.