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By Cheryl Mattox Berry While the 2016 presidential election will go down in history for who was elected president, it will also be known as the year women roared – from the first woman to run for the highest office in the nation to many firsts in the U.S. Senate. All should be celebrated as […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry You never know what kind of day it will be, who you’ll run into or what you might stumble upon. Everyone has a story or opinion to share if given an opportunity. Here are my latest encounters. Training Ground Six long-legged brown girls, who looked to be in middle school, were […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry To borrow a phrase from one of Marvin Gaye’s songs, music has been my therapy. It quiets my mind, energizes my body and inspires me. It also helps me express feelings when words don’t come easy. Lately, I’ve been turning to contemporary gospel and R&B dusties with social and political messages […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 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 As women across the country prepare to descend on Washington, D.C., for the Women’s March Jan. 21, don’t feel bad if you can’t make the trip. Start planning a local march or other “sister” activities. Thousands of women are expected to converge on the National Mall to protest Trump’s proposed policies. […]
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 My heart was heavy this Thanksgiving after learning that an older cousin had passed away – homeless in Chicago. I lost contact with Mary after she moved from Memphis to New York and then Chicago. She and my grandmother exchanged letters, and Granny would pass along news about her. Granny died […]
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 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 […]
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