When Connie Brown opened the doors of Fondren Fashion House in 2012, she had no idea that it would have the success that it has had. “The support that we have been shown is just amazing,” Brown shared. Brown’s background in marketing and advertising seems to have given her the midas touch when it comes [...]

Fabvienen Taylor will never forget when she met Medgar Evers.  “He was surrounded by all of these people, but he stopped just to talk to me. I’ll never forget that,”  said Taylor, who was 11 when she met the slain civil rights activist. When Taylor learned that Evers’ widow Myrlie Evers-Williams would be at Lemuria [...]

(Jackson, Miss.) – Myrlie Evers, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, has released the schedule for the national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of her late husband Medgar Evers, a Mississippi civil rights pioneer. Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of Medgar and Myrlie Evers and the executive [...]

While having a conversation with some of my boys, we joked on the weekly Twitter debates on the $200 date. No, I won’t start that up, but we just reflected on how stupid it is that some men and women judge a man by his ability to provide a $200 meal. That discussion sparked this [...]

If you didn’t make Savvy Lifestyle and Poised PR & Events’ first Artisan Mixer, you missed a stellar event!  Check out candid moments in our Events section.

Experience something different at The Artisan Mixer, 7p.m. Thursday, May 9 at the North Midtown Arts Center located at 121 Millsaps Avenue. “Events like this are already taking place in Richmond, Harlem and cities across the country and are having great success. We wanted to do it for our city,” shared Shameka L. Reed, publisher [...]

Once upon a time there was a land of dance. In the mythical land of Goma, dance united the people. The rich and poor all danced together. Dancing made them happy. Until that fateful day when both the king and queen died in a fire and the king’s evil sister, Devorah, became the ruler. Queen [...]

Behold, in all of its complex pageantry – The Eldredge Knot. This peculiar knot has leisurely traveled the Internet circuit over the last few months – perhaps even longer; impressing a great deal of forward-thinking gentlemen and equally confounding a multitude of others. The opinion: a dazzling exhibition of creative artistry; oran undesirable, trendy display [...]

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 [...]

Every one of us came into marriage with certain expectations. And every one of us has dealt with the disappointment of unmet expectations in marriage. It is one of those things in marriage that will happen. When it does it can make you or break you. As I mentioned above, all marriages will be met [...]