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By 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 I’m always at a loss for words when a stranger approaches me in a department store and asks my opinion about something she’s thinking about buying – usually clothes. It happened again the other day in the dress department of Macy’s. A woman holding a navy cocktail dress wanted to know […]
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 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 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 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 The use of abbreviations (LOL, OMG, SMH) on social media has apparently spilled over into the workplace where a person’s name is being replaced by a letter or two. For example, instead of Cheryl, a supervisor or co-worker would refer to me as “C.” It sounds a little futuristic and impersonal, […]
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 […]
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