The National Black Unity News Podcast

Topic Living a  Khametic Life
 

Our guest tonight is Queen Mother Imakhu. Rev. Dr. Queen Mother Imakhu has enjoyed a well-rounded, forty-plus year career as an artist, activist, cultural educator, lecturer, and motivational speaker.  Despite living with epilepsy, chronic asthma, and Asperger's Syndrome since childhood,  Rev. Queen Mother Imakhu MuNeferet has lived an inspiring life of overcoming and achievement. She was recently one of the enstoolment of new Elders and members, At The National Council of Black Elders on Saturday, December 26, 2020, at the virtual KWANZAA celebration! 

Born in Elizabeth, NJ, raised in Kenilworth, Queen Mother Imakhu is proud of a Newark resident. Her South Carolinian father,

Tommie Lloyd, the first African American accepted into the New Jersey Tool and Die Association in 1971, had his mold polishing business in Newark, NJ for twenty-five years. Her North Carolinian mother, Jean Whitley Lloyd Mayfield, became the first Black Girl Scout leader in Kenilworth, NJ at a time when crosses were still being burned in the town. Her maternal grandparents,

Walter A. Whitley and Selma Inez Simmons Whitley, rose from being southern sharecroppers to becoming respected business people and property owners in New Jersey. Queen Mother's maternal ancestor, Billy Artis, fought in the Nat Turner Uprising. Coming from risk-taking trailblazers, Queen Mother Imakhu could only follow by example. 

Former columnist/reporter for FIRST WORLD NEWS Black newspaper. Former founder/director of and playwright for

The Zawadi Collective theater ensemble of Lehigh Valley, PA.

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