For Dreamers, Thinkers and Achievers
By Cheryl Mattox Berry Whenever there’s too much publicity about a movie, I question whether it will live up to the hype. Nor am I a fan of Marvel superhero movies, but I went to see “Black Panther” because I like Chadwick Boseman, who plays the Black Panther and King T’Challa. I must say that […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry My daughter’s godmother, Rosalind, experienced the most frantic 48 hours of her life when her only living sibling, Dianne, fell ill in another city. She was unable to provide medical information to aid doctors treating Dianne. At first, doctors thought Dianne, a contract instructor at a professional school, had suffered a […]
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 I just finished watching the remake of Roots, which premiered Memorial Day on the History Channel and aired across three other cable networks. It was a beautiful, gut-wrenching, brutal and powerful story, more realistic than the groundbreaking original series in January 1977. The new Roots, subtitled “The Journey of an American Family,” shows […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry My heart goes out to the family of a 12-year-old Florida girl who took her life last week because of cyberbullying. Why does this keep happening over and over? The Associated Press estimates there have been about a dozen suicides in the USA over the last three years that can be […]
Continue ReadingBy Paola, 16, junior Facebook and Twitter have become the center of our social lives. We connect with friends and share memories easier than ever through these websites. Although they’re fun to use and can sometimes have benefits, such as being able to contact someone who doesn’t have a phone, the websites can also be […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Gone are the days when you waited for delivery of the local newspaper or sat in front of the TV at an appointed hour to get the day’s top stories. With technology so readily available and a 24-hour news cycle, it’s easy to get news on demand. Do you? I’m not […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Bloggers are using tweets and email by shooting victim Trayvon Martin to portray him as a violent person in an effort to support claims by gunman George Zimmerman that he acted in self-defense. After reading some of the messages, I concluded that Trayvon was a typical teenager who talked about girls, […]
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