Trump News Wears Me Out

By 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 […]

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Women Organize to Thwart Trump’s Campaign Promises

By 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 […]

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Beauty Pageants: Trump’s Harems

By 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 […]

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Prince Ea Social Media Video is On Point

By 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 […]

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Image of Female Athletes Needs Improvement

By Cheryl Mattox Berry A day after I’m nearly blinded by Dove’s “My Beauty My Say” message on a billboard in Microsoft Square near the Staples Center in Los Angeles, tennis star Serena Williams’ twerking video pops up on TV. Talking about mixed messages. Williams’ so-called instructional twerking video for Self magazine and a Snapchat […]

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The Truth Will Set You Free

By Cheryl Mattox Berry For a minute, I thought lexicographers had removed the word “sorry” from the dictionary, and I missed the memo. The Melania Trump speech debacle is the latest example of how some people refuse to take responsbility for their actions and let others take the blame because they don’t want to look […]

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