News You Should Know #HERNewsRecap

Yesterday, as we remember the legacy and service of Dr. Martin Luther King, news you should know about was shared across the world. See what you missed. #HERNewsRecap Kamala Harris Announces That She Is Running For President | Essence Netflix adds ‘Black Earth Rising’ to their Roster | Live Hacker The Women’s March was a…

Kicking off the Year by Taking a Look Back

Photo by Chayene Rafaela on Unsplash A Year with H.E.R.  Here are the top five posts for 2018. If you missed them, don’t worry you can catch up on them now. If you’ve already read them, we’d love for you to pass them along or let us know what you think. Dear Sis: An Open Letter to Black Women The…

Salute H.E.R.: Erin Debuts on the Rachael Ray Show!

We’re so excited and proud to share that our H.E.R. Crisis contributor, Erin of Live Pretty on a Penny made her debut on the Rachael Ray Show this morning. Even her son, Julius the III, was there to support mommy during the video. If you missed it during the live show, don’t worry. You can…

Salute H.E.R. and Watch H.E.R. Work!

It’s always a good day to let your fellow girlfriend, sis, rida, or just another bomb woman know that they are wonderful and doing great things. Today we salute a couple of contributors from H.E.R. Crisis. Erin is saluted as a Home Design Blogger that Inspires Our design and lifestyle guru Erin Marshall of Live…

Five Ways to Brace for Life’s Storms

Photo: Favour Omoruyi Our journey through life has many sunny and cloudy days. The blessings that we receive normally come after an obstacle or storm. There are times we want something to happen by XX date and it never does because God has the final word. And a lot of the time as we wait on…

I Choose Meaning Over Happiness #quicktuesdaythought

This will be short and sweet H.E.R. Fam. If you are waking up, going to work, able to stay financially stable, have love around or even good “like” around you, and you’re making it through life’s struggle but is still not happy, it’s because you are lacking meaning in your life. Your meaning, or purpose,…

Reviews aren’t just for writer’s egos…we promise!

This week on my blog, The Chronicles of DNC, I tapped into one of the hardest things to do as a writer–to get honest feedback. A lot of times, we are dying to hear what a complete stranger would think about our plot, tone or structure of our story. Do people really get our words…