While our targeted demographics are different, Savvy targets young professional men and women ages 21 to 40 and Essence’s demo is African American women between 18 and 49, there lies some vast similarities in vision. Taylor was the keynote speaker for the 2012 Emerging Leaders Summit, but before her Saturday morning speech, she spent her [...]

There is nothing like the TIMING OF THE LORD! Often times, we get aggravated and frustrated when it seems as if things aren’t moving when we think they should move, but the truth is they are moving, yet they are moving in the timing of the Lord. God sees our hearts, hears our prayers and [...]

At 69, Ethel T. Williams Singleton has fulfilled her long-term goal of earning a college degree. “I got married and had children, so I couldn’t go to college,” said the mother of 11, including four sets of twins. In the late 1980s, Singleton decided to go to college, and earned an associate’s degree in criminal [...]

  Lecrae, whom Lin calls his favorite rapper, found that out firsthand when the two of them met about three weeks ago after one of the rapper’s shows in Houston, where the point guard is now living. “What Jeremy talked to me about was just the reality of everyone kind of pulling at him, and [...]

When CJ Rhodes speaks, he doesn’t come across as the self-proclaimed shy guy he describes himself to be. His demeanor lends itself to that of a person who is cool, calm, collected and in control of his every thought and word. One would never guess that this 30-year-old, well-poised, Baptist preacher ever had a fear [...]