Ms. Dorothy Burnham, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (USA) turned 111 years old.

She was born on 22 March 1915 in Brooklyn, New York (USA) the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She was a noted civil rights activist and communist in the 1930s and 1940s alongside her husband Louis E. Burnham (1915-1960), participating in the Young Communist League and Southern Negro Youth Congress. She wrote articles for the journal Freedomways, a leading publication of African-American thought founded by her husband Louis Burnham, W. E. B. Dubois and Edward Strong that featured names such as C. L. R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, and Audre Lorde. She later returned to Brooklyn, where she worked as a bacteriologist, before turning to teaching. 

Her and her husband Louis Burnham had four children: Claudia Loftis, Margaret Burnham - a professor, lawyer, and former judge, Linda Burnham - journalist and activist, and Charles Burnham - an accomplished violinist. 

Happy 111th Birthday!