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By Cheryl Mattox Berry After more than a week of the man-child’s antics in the Oval Office, I couldn’t take any more Donald J. Trump news, so I decided to unplug from the media. No newspapers, Facebook, NPR, news feeds on my cellphone, CNN and local TV news. I needed a Trumpless day. Did I […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry President-elect Donald J. Trump’s unexpected victory at the polls on Nov. 8 has galvanized women across the USA. On Friday night, about 15 women gathered at a Miami Shores, Fla., beauty salon after-hours to discuss what they can do to offset expected challenges to women’s reproductive rights and human rights; how […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry I went to bed last night with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton trailing in electoral votes and woke up this morning to news that Republican nominee Donald Trump was president-elect of the United States. Only in America. Voters elected a sexist, misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic, ill-tempered and poorly qualified man to the highest […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry We’ve seen enough. If you haven’t made up your mind by now, I can’t imagine what else you need to hear from Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. What I don’t want to see and hear is Trump snorting into the microphone, snarling and glaring at Clinton. I […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Reports that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump barged into the dressing room of Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA contestants and leered at them while they were half-dressed is yet another example of his sense of entitlement and lack of respect for women. Who does that? A millionaire businessman who is […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Okay, I’m a little late to the party, but overnight I’ve become a big fan of Prince Ea, the spoken word artist/filmmaker/musician/motivational speaker, who has legions of fans on Facebook and YouTube. His video, Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?, was shown at a conference I attended for college-age young women. The video […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry A big thank-you to President Barack Obama for his support of feminism in the August issue of Glamour magazine. In an article, the president describes himself as a feminist and defines feminism in the 21st Century as “the idea that when everybody is equal we are all more free.” Obama says he’s […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry A day after I’m nearly blinded by Dove’s “My Beauty My Say” message on a billboard in Microsoft Square near the Staples Center in Los Angeles, tennis star Serena Williams’ twerking video pops up on TV. Talking about mixed messages. Williams’ so-called instructional twerking video for Self magazine and a Snapchat […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry I like shopping at boutiques, but sometimes the sales associates hover too much and get on my nerves. When I walked into one boutique looking for a dress, a store employee pounced on me at the door, saying she had the perfect pair of pants – the Lisette brand Oprah Winfrey […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry For a minute, I thought lexicographers had removed the word “sorry” from the dictionary, and I missed the memo. The Melania Trump speech debacle is the latest example of how some people refuse to take responsbility for their actions and let others take the blame because they don’t want to look […]
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