No One is Better Than You: Edith Renfrow Smith and the Power of a Mother's Words

Edith Renfrow Smith is an inspirational Black woman who reached the age of 110 on July 14, 2024. Having spent most of her adult life in Chicago, she still considered the small Iowa town where she was raised to be home. Her deep roots in Grinnell, Iowa, reach back to when her grandfather came through town as a Freedom Seeker on the Underground Railroad. When she was born in 1914 there were only a few Black families in the area. She was the fifth of six children raised by Lee and Eva Pearl Re...