Marci Gray, MSW, RSW, a Black mental health therapist, consultant, and speaker, has created a powerful tool called The Empowerment Planner that helps people with self-improvement and mental health maintenance. It is designed to help those who already have a therapist and those who don’t. Not sure about therapy? The Empowerment Planner helps you work through personal...
Patrice Brantley, a community licensed mental health therapist, says she watched her father tried to kill her mother when she was just 6-years old. Patrice Brantley is an author, educator, licensed therapist, and podcaster, who is on a mission to empower others to overcome childhood trauma and heal. At a young age, Patrice Brantley experienced...
We have an experience many changes in our lives that will last forever. These things are not even new to even bring up. I have mentioned before in my other wittings to be on the lookout constantly of what life is teaching you to be in Glory and not in Suffering. When we see a...
Meet 4-year old Emilio, 6-year old Amora, 8-year old Rosie, 10-year old LaLa, 12-year old Anita, 16-year old Malachi, 18-year old Kimoni, 20-year old Mina, and baby Makalo. These young homeschoolers have created a YouTube channel called Multilingual Stars Academy that offers fun and exciting content to help children learn the basics of different languages. “Learning different...
In the order of life there is a balance within and external. I have been talking about this for several decades and have been in practice and training for several more before that. We the internal and faithful students of the martial sciences have been dedicated with the living sciences and the understanding as...
Meet Lakeisha Jackson and her daughter, Katelyn, who are making history as the first African American mom-daughter duo to open a Black-owned lifestyle athletic leisure apparel store for women at the high-end Topanga Mall in Los Angeles. Their company, SGH Apparel™, is a lifestyle brand dedicated to superwomen who are movers and shakers, risk-takers, and goal-getters....
For months, Selena B. Hunter had been agonizing over what to call her new record company. The label would be the embodiment of “Black Girl Magic.” It would be groundbreaking. It would be bold. And it would be built on principles rarely, if ever, seen in an industry often riddled with misogyny and exploitation. Artists...
Jeneba Barrie, the founder of Jeneba Barrie Footwear, a Black woman-owned diverse, and inclusive luxury skin-tone shoe line, is celebrating 3 years of business this August. Jeneba originally launched in 2019 after running a successful Kickstarter campaign. The company is dedicated to redefining the meaning of “nude” shoes from one or two shades of beige to...
As Devonte Saunders walks through a luxury condo in his hometown of Atlanta, he can’t help but reflect on his years growing up as a child in the foster care system. The word “home” was always a foreign word to him, considering that he never had one. In fact, during one stretch of his childhood between 2004...
The same voices speaking or that goes into a song has been ringing in our ears for 58 years or 200 years or maybe never. When people who were once considered an animal fighting to be seen in the hearts of others as equal, these things are not happening. There are lives lost, lives that...