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By Cheryl Mattox Berry MIAMI – More than 10,000 women, men and children crammed into the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre Saturday for a solidarity rally to support the massive Women’s March in Washington, D.C. Hundreds who couldn’t get in milled about the grounds, parading through the crowd with signs supporting women’s rights, human rights, LGBT rights […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry The movie, Hidden Figures, is the best movie I saw last year for many reasons. It’s a new chapter in black history, inspirational, a love story and testament to the resiliency of black women. Hidden Figures is based on the true story of three brilliant black women at NASA – Katherine […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry In my travels around South Florida and across the country this year, I’ve met some interesting women who left me inspired, awed, smiling or shaking my head. They’re not rich, famous or infamous. Just everyday women who touched me in some way. Here’s how: The spry, elderly woman who cares for […]
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 It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I usually get a mammogram in August, a month after my annual gynecological visit. This year, I didn’t get around to it until September and worried for a whole month that something might be wrong. After my mammogram, I attended a meeting and mentioned that I […]
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 You’ve seen them fanning incessantly while proclaiming to everyone in earshot that they’re having a private summer. You’ve witnessed their irritability and keep your distance. The two of you play a game of seesaw with the thermostat. Women going through menopause are easy to spot. If you ask them, they’ll rattle […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Soulless. Spineless. Demented. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary to describe the 29-year-old man who shot up Pulse nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 patrons and wounding 53 others. Whatever his religious or moral beliefs were regarding homosexuality, they didn’t justify the carnage, which is being called the deadliest mass shooting […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry My girlfriend’s two nephews are still reeling from a horrific act committed by their 53-year-old father in Sioux Falls, S.D. He shot his ex-girlfriend three times and then turned the gun on himself. He died two weeks after the shootings in late February. His on-again/off-again girlfriend, 30, miraculously survived bullets to […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Rarely do I spend time with women who are as jubilant as Pharrell describes in his Happy song, but I did this weekend. And you know what? It was infectious. Let me tell you about them: One of the women is my sorority sister who is a few weeks away from […]
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