Our Personal She-roes

Dr. Antoine Jasmine and AMJ Worldwide:

Presents a Women’s History Month Celebration entitled, “Our Treasured Queens”. This unique celebration will be held Saturday, March 29, 2025. 2pm at Choice Event Place at 516 East Airline Hwy LaPlace, LA 70068. There guests will honor many of our own personal “she-roes” who have passed away but are never forgotten. These “Treasured Queens” may include but not limited to mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, mentors, godmothers, aunts, co-workers. With more being celebrated for their impact on their friends, family and community as a whole.

Treasured Queens

To commemorate the Treasured Queens, attendees are asked to bring their favorite pictures, mementoes and memories of these special ladies in order to commemorate the lives they’ve lived and the impact they’ve made even if they are no longer with us.

Special guests that will be in attendance include City of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. 

Dorothea Wilson of KLRT FOX 16. Dr. Debra Morton of Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church, singer Joanna McGill, and rapper Chyna Whyte.

When asked why this celebration is important, organizer Dr. Antoine Jasmine says, “I lost my mother during the pandemic. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of her and miss her. She was truly a powerful woman that made an enormous impact on the lives that she encountered. 

This is my way to continue to honor her legacy and create a safe space for others to come together and celebrate the women that have impacted their lives as well.”  

He continues, “many times when someone dies, there’s the immediate response from friends, family and supporters who offer their condolences and offer their support. However, after the funeral is over, the calls stop, the check-ins cease to exist, and those who have lost often have to pick up the pieces of their loss on their own, and eventually, even the most supportive family and friends start to move on with their lives and the memory of the deceased fades away.

It is my mission during Women’s History Month to celebrate the rich history that we have blessed in our own personal communities. Yes, it is always important to celebrate the public figures who are women who have changed history. With this initiative it is my hope that we can also celebrate women who may not have ever been in a newspaper or mentioned in a blog, but have been local heroes in their communities, even if it just for the people living in her neighborhood.” 

Tickets to attend “Out Treasured Queens” Celebration are free and open to the public and can be found on Eventbrite.

About Dr. Antoine Jasmine

Dr. Antoine Jasmine has earned his PhD in Christian Counseling in August 2015 and received his Doctorate in Divinity in December 2015. He is also the General Overseer of Choice International Family Outreach Worship Center in LaPlace, LA and Rijswijk, Netherlands.

In addition to his Kingdom responsibilities, he is a structured entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Member of the United Nations, and Author. Bishop Jasmine has been featured on TBN, “Rejoicing in the Word” with Bishop George Bloomer on the Word Network, Bishop Greg Davis Live on the Word Network, “This Is Your Day!” with Pastor Benny Hinn, and many more. In November 2016, Bishop Jasmine received The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama. 

About Mayor LaToya Cantrell

Cantrell was inaugurated as mayor on May 7, 2018, the first woman to hold the position in the city’s history.Once in office, she established a new Office of Youth and Families, with the goal of creating a strategic plan to address families in crisis in the city. Cantrell also founded a Gun Violence Reduction Council, tasked with finding solutions to violent crime. Starting with a push to rededicate hotel taxes collected within the city for city use, Cantrell has focused on her #fairshare initiative to improve city infrastructure, public transportation, public parks, and green spaces. 

About Dorothea Wilson

Dorothea Wilson, a Louisiana native, is a graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. While she has held various roles throughout her career, her passion for journalism and storytelling drove her to pursue a path in broadcast journalism.

During this journey, she obtained a master’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University. She soon began her broadcasting journey at the CBS affiliate in Monroe, LA. Since then, Dorothea has worked at several local news stations and is currently one of two state anchors in Louisiana. Dorothea covers statewide stories and hosts a weekly program called Louisiana, The State We’re In. Dorothea has strong commitment to faith, family, and community. She is a licensed and ordained minister who uses her platform to also share the Good News

About Dr. Debra Morton

New Orleans native, Debra B. Morton leads alongside her husband, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr., as the senior pastor of Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church in New Orleans. She also serves as a co-pastor of Changing A Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Both are internationally-renowned ministries. As the pastor of Greater St. Stephen, Morton followed in the footsteps of her husband, Bishop Paul S. Morton, who was the pastor before her.“Under his leadership, the ministry was extended to New Orleans East and the Westbank,” said Morton. “We became known as ‘One Church in Three Locations.’”

In 1993, Morton was ordained as an elder and earned the distinction as one of the first ordained female elders to preach in a Baptist pulpit. She garnered local and national popularity with her television and radio talk shows, “Morning Coffee,” where she discusses the role of spirituality in everyday life.

About Joanna McGill

In 2015 Joanna McGill first garnered mainstream attention as the winner of the Next Gospel Superstar at Essence Fest while singing for Deitrick Haddon, Tamela Mann, and Phil Thornton. As a result of her winning, she released her first single, “Open Door” that was written, and produced by Haddon and recorded a new “Top of the Hour” jingle for The Tom Joyner Morning Show. She then later opened for Haddon and Yolanda Adams at the Tom Joyner Family Reunion performing that same new single.

In 2018 Joanna completed her debut album entitled, “New Sound Same God Vol 1”. Her first single, “I Can Do Anything” reached #21 on The Gospel Billboard Indicator Chart, her current single “Revelation 21:4” reached #13 on the Gospel Indicator Chart, #99 on the Billboard Gospel Airplay Chart, and held for 5 weeks at #1 on the Gospel Indicator Recurrent Chart. This She is an award-winning artist and is quickly becoming a sought after artist in the gospel music industry.

About Chyna Whyte

Chyna Whyte, best known for her power-packed performance on Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz Billboard charted song,“Bia Bia” has been writing and recording songs for more than 30 years. Born in New Orleans, La., she signed her first recording contract with BME Records in Atlanta, Ga. in 1999 and in 2001 she signed a major distribution deal with TVT Records in New York.

She went on to write and record several songs featuring on Lil Jon’s albums, “We Still Crunk” and “Kings Of Crunk”, Too Short’s album “U Nasty” and received certified RIAA gold and platinum plaques for her work.She went on to feature on many albums working with some of the most legendary artists, producers and record labels in the industry such as super producer Donald “XL” Robertson, No Limit records, Naughty By Nature, Ludacris, Bun B and many more.She released three iconic mixtapes entitled, “The Whyte Out 1&2” and “Real Deal Holyfield” independently.

Her songs have been featured in many movies and reality series such as Love And A Bullet, Prison Song, the TV series Sex in the City, My Super Sweet 16, MTV Cribs, VH1 Driven, VH1 Ego Trip, MTV2 High School Stories, MTV2 Video Honeys, VH1 Greatest Kid Stars, MTV2 Andy Milonakis Show and MTV Making The Band. She has filmed several movies and written two books.

Yet feeling a need for change, she walked away from the secular industry to pursue her journey seeking out GOD and her true purpose. She began recording music with more positive messages and about her love for GOD and his word understanding the power of music and its influence on people.“Life and death are in the power of the tongue and I choose to speak life”.

She started her own record label and publishing company both named Seed Shop metaphorically likening them to being a representation of planting seeds in the minds of individuals through the art of music that causes positive growth, change, deliverance and freedom directly pointing them to The Most High Creator of all things,God through his son Jesus.

Purchase Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-history-month-celebration-our-treasured-queens-tickets-1267701050969?aff=oddtdtcreator