Susheel “Cheryl” Bibbs
Susheel “Cheryl” Bibbs (CFA’68) of Sacramento, Calif., a singer and filmmaker, writes that she had a busy fall. She received a Marquis Who’s Who of Women Lifetime Achievement Award. Two of her documentaries, which focus on unsung African Americans, were shown on PBS in September: her award-winning 2008 film, Meet Mary Pleasant and her newest film, Voices for Freedom: The Hyers Sisters’ Legacy. Susheel recently won five international film festival awards, a broadcast Telly, and a screening at Cannes for her documentary on Mary Pleasant, known as the “mother of civil rights” in California. Susheel performed recitals this past fall in California; she won the first Willis Patterson Award from the International African American Art Song Alliance for the research she conducted for her recitals and films. Email her at mepleasant1@yahoo.com.
From the Winter-Spring 2018 issue.