Faith Ringgold was known as a painter, writer, and speaker. She is best known for her quilt art, which told stories about what she has gone through in life and certain problems that society was facing at that time. The piece above is called "Whose Afraid of Aunt Jemima" painted in 1983, done after the death of both her mother and sister. At that time Aunt Jemima was the black feminist hero, she was ridiculed for being fat, black, and having a big nose. Ringgold felt that this was not a way to condem someone, so with the quilt she gave her another life. In this life she had a family, a career, and talked about the important things in her life and not about the way she looked. Other women that she asked did not feel bad for aunt Jemima and felt
