For Dreamers, Thinkers and Achievers
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 […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry A big thank-you to President Barack Obama for his support of feminism in the August issue of Glamour magazine. In an article, the president describes himself as a feminist and defines feminism in the 21st Century as “the idea that when everybody is equal we are all more free.” Obama says he’s […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry The Olympics Watching the female athletes perform at the Olympics demonstrates once again how sports can play an important role in a girl or young woman’s life. When you read the back stories of the athletes, you’ll learn that many of them overcame tremendous odds on the road to Rio de […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry I like shopping at boutiques, but sometimes the sales associates hover too much and get on my nerves. When I walked into one boutique looking for a dress, a store employee pounced on me at the door, saying she had the perfect pair of pants – the Lisette brand Oprah Winfrey […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry Have you ever been ready to do something and the little voice in your head starts talking? Do you heed that advice? Sometimes I do, and sometimes I dont. When I ignore my inner voice, I regret it. Case in point: Three weeks ago, I decided to retrieve something from the garage around […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry You’ve seen them fanning incessantly while proclaiming to everyone in earshot that they’re having a private summer. You’ve witnessed their irritability and keep your distance. The two of you play a game of seesaw with the thermostat. Women going through menopause are easy to spot. If you ask them, they’ll rattle […]
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Mattox Berry The last time I got together with girlfriends for Happy Hour, the conversation eventually turned to our aging bodies, specifically what we’d go under the knife to change. Survey said: boobs (perkier,) bellies (flatter) and erasing those facial lines that make us look tired and angry. Of course, we were under […]
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 […]
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