By Erickka Sy Savane Terri Lyne Carrington was just seven years old when she started playing drums. It was immediate love because it was something that she was good at. With practice she got even better, and by the time she turned 11 years old she had already lined up a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music, and was…
Pictured: Legendary artist, Jean Michel Basquiat By Erickka Sy Savane Whether an art lover or not, you’d be hard-pressed to have missed reading about the recent record-breaking sale of Jean Michel Basquiat’s “Untitled” painting for 110.5 million. Or maybe you’ve heard about Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall who is selling in the millions and boasting lines around the corner for…
By Erickka Sy Savané I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stress. First it was singer Brandy who recently collapsed on a plane due to the stress of traveling and working incessantly, says her publicist, and not long ago it was modelpreneur Tyra Banks who confessed that while she was at the height of her career, she was also exhausted…
Photo Credit: @NaturalSilverSista By Erickka Sy Savané I’m standing in the mirror with a tube of mascara, covering grey hair. I promised myself that I wouldn’t be caught dead with grey hair. My mom started going grey at 16, and by the time she was in her 30’s she was so tired of constantly coloring it that she let the whole…
Getty Images It’s late and I just feel like writing. A funny thing happens when you end up doing the thing you love for a living. Most of the time you don’t love it. You tolerate it because you know that without it you’d have to find another way to make a living. So tonight it’s just old school writing…
Written by Erickka Sy Savane Actress Kerry Washington, who is working with the AllState Purple Purse campaign which works to fight against financial abuse for women who are experiencing domestic violence and can’t afford to get out of the relationship, recently raised the question of “financial literacy.” It brings up a very good question for many African American women who are…
By Erickka Sy Savané Be careful who you marry because your kids might have carpet texture hair,” said my friend a few years back. Continue Reading I had never heard the term so I almost choked. I looked at her brown skin with hair looser than mine, (I’m no expert, so I’m guessing she was a 4b), and I thought,…
Sharita Mathis-Lawson earns a PhD from North Carolina A&T State University Written by Erickka Sy Savane When Sharita Mathis-Lawson found herself a divorced mom of three teens, with a fourth child from a recently failed relationship on the way, it would have been easy for her to throw her hands up in defeat. Just a few years shy of her 40th…
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