This week, February 22-28, is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. This year’s theme is: …until eating disorders are history. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, the mission of this week is to “ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.”...
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Today is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras (whoo!), which makes tomorrow Ash Wednesday- the beginning of Lent. A couple of weeks ago, I started thinking about what I could give up for Lent. Am I Catholic? No, but I know that lots of people who aren’t do practice it. And besides, I think it’s...
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So, today I got an email from a magazine saying they needed writers ASAP. I responded saying I was interested, and lo and behold, I got a response about 30 minutes (give or take) later. I told her what topics I was most interested in and then she asked- Can you have it by...
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February 17, 2009 Contact: Edgar Bateman III Phone: (704) 930-1731 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Finance professional to hold financial literacy workshop STATESVILLE, N.C.- Are you struggling with money right now? Are you searching for solutions to better your financial condition? Join Edgar Bateman III on Saturday, February 28 from 10 A.M. –...
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Jimmy Blackwell, 51, has now been left blind due to the injuries sustained by the Hartwell Police, according to his daughter, Keesha Blackwell. Read the whole story: http://www.wyff4.com/news/18742572/detail.html I will post more information as more is available.
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Successful Sistas is an interview series featuring women pursuing their dream careers. Job Title: CEO of HBCU Kidz, Inc. and book author Job description: Set strategic plans and operational tactics to grow a family start-up Internet boutique. Motivate and inspire virtual teams to unite and work together to grow brand globally. Publish a...
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Donyale Luna Claim to faim: She was the first notable Black model and the first Black model on the cover of Vogue (British edition) in 1966. Brief bio: Born Peggay Ann Freeman, Donyale was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 1, 1945. Described as a weird child growing up, she was discovered by photographer...
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I’m sure everyone has heard or read about by now about the controversial editorial cartoon in the New York Post. If you haven’t then look at a news source some time! Anyway, a cartoon by Sean Delonas illustrates two police officers, one with a smoking gun, and they are standing over a dead chimp. One...
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If someone were to ask you who you really were, how would you answer? Would you say marketing executive, teacher, mother, daughter? What if someone asked you to dig deeper, to the core of you? Anita Charlot, metaphysical and transformational life coach, has been helping people answer those questions since 2000 through her...
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I know we’ve all heard the stories of police brutality and excessive force they sometimes use (Rodney King and Sean Bell come to mind). This type of thing really makes me angry, so I was very upset and disappointed that this happened in my hometown of Hartwell, GA. A town that’s pretty small; so...
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