Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole

The author of the article that i used, "What Hip Hop Has Done To Black Women", was written by the highly acclaimed Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. To make sure that the author of my article was as credible as they claimed she was I first entered her name into Google Scholar and then a more scholarly search, Galileo. I also went to Ebony, the magazine in which I found the initial article in, and look her up on their website. I also wanted to know what made them pick this particular women ti write this article. After I found out who she was then I looked over some of the articles about the first African American president of Spelmen College, I realized that she was a very credible source to use in the writing of my paper. I also found out about how she grew up and all of her accomplishments which made argument in the paper even more credible.
What made me look in the places that I looked was the fact that the places I looked were considered credible in themselves. Thus, the information that I received from these cites had to have at least a certain amount of truth to them to make it into these particular databases. I think that since my author had made since large victories in her life then she would be included in some of the larger databases that have a larger scale that they use to judge whether or not the article should be included in their website.
There were more advantages then disadvantages in the way I went about finding my information about my author. Since I knew that the websites that I used had to have a certain level of creditability, I knew that the chances of the information being shaky was slim to none. I also found the same information in multiple locations, therefore the information also had to be correct.