Who am I? I am celebrating my Sister Pat Prescott this International Women’s Month
Born March 10, 1951, I first met her when I was born 9 1/2 years later. My earliest vivid memories of her are her campaign for Vice-President of her Junior class at Thomas Jefferson HS in Brooklyn NY. I mostly remember buttons with her name on them and thinking how cool it all was.
[Pictured: Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center – Awarding Pat for her service]
All of her years at Northwestern University are a big blur for me, and it got real blurry when Daddy died months before her graduation and 5 days after her 20th birthday.
And then New Orleans. I will NEVER forget my first trip to visit you in New Orleans. I was a senior in high school and it was during a national sugar shortage and ya’ll were using this weird syrup for sweetener. And I got my first (and last) perm from Cathy Picou!
And the next 40 years, I got to watch you soar as a radio personality from your start in New Orleans (WYLD-FM) to NYC. Remember her Morning Workout on WBLS-FM? Yes, she worked with THE Frankie Crocker!, then WRVR-FM and finally CD-101.9 before you went off to LA and have partnered with Dave Koz, Brian McKnight, countless guests to be a consistent voice of 94.7 The WAVE-FM through not one but two format changes.
And she always takes the time to mentor, donate her time, talent and treasures to good causes and makes friends wherever she goes. She has been more of an auntie than a mother to my children. They have lived with or laid over at her house many times. And she has been a mother to so many and a sister to even more.
And now we’re justice warriors together listening, learning and leading 4 justice.
So I celebrate that she is my one and only “born from the same mama and daddy “sister Patricia Norvelle Prescott and I love her very much. Celebrate her with me! Happy birthday. #whoami#listening4justice
