LaTanya Pattillo is truly a woman wearing several hats. By way of the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, she hails from the Sandhills of North...[Read More]
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Women AdvaNCe would like to celebrate Crystal Cavalier Keck as our Woman to Watch for November 2019. Crystal “Red Bear” Cavalier Keck has been a...[Read More]
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When Satana Deberry left her hometown of Hamlet, NC to pursue higher education at Princeton University, her purposeful plan didn’t include the words District Attorney...[Read More]
I remember sitting in an undergrad classroom and listening to a lecture about the educational philosophy of students being referred to as “blank slates”. Twenty...[Read More]
Frida Kahlo said “I paint my own reality,” and that is what Asheville-based Ginger Huebner has been doing for almost 10 years. With a Masters...[Read More]
Opening a restaurant is quite a feat in itself, but opening a restaurant as a minority female who immigrates to the United States of America...[Read More]
Talking to Mandy Carter is like curling up with a good book that you don’t want to end. To say that she has lived history...[Read More]
In the summer of 2011, Tonya McDaniel lost her 22-year-old son Trayvon McDaniel to gun violence. “It was unbelievable and heartbreaking,” she said. “He was...[Read More]
On the Information Superhighway Jane Smith Patterson is the cement truck paving the way. While many of us assume that Internet and access to communication...[Read More]
“It’s always been a fight.” These words rang in my ears as I heard them spoke. They made me think of the time I had...[Read More]