For Dreamers, Thinkers and Achievers
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 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 “In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher Ladies, enough with the talk, tears and hand-wringing. it’s time we took the lead in getting guns out of our cars, houses and communities. I’m sick and tired of watching videos […]
Continue Reading