Opera Shenanigan’s blog celebrates 7 Instagram accounts that are related to Opera and recommends following them in celebration of them reaching 7,000 followers on with Instagram account. Among the profiles highlighted, @lmichellespeaks, calling her a “renaissance woman” and “a force of nature.” A special thanks to @operashenanigans for the recognition!
Here we go again with names and hashtags. In times like these, you have to call your longtime girlfriend, because if the pandemic wasn’t enough, they’re killing black people again. Socamom® and Socamom Summit founder, children’s book author and Caribbean parenting expert Eva Greene Wilson, JD and I have a raw conversation about what it is like to be black in America, raise children, especially sons, have a…
When a global pandemic hits, things change, and they can for the better if you just put your mind to it. Five of technology, business and opera’s finest minds discuss how covid-19 will bend but not break because it is determine to lead with technology and not just use it as an “in the meantime” tool. This fascinating discussion is applicable to any industry or business plotting…
BY LAUREN HAWKINS • MAY 18, 2020 Since 2018, The DEC Network has teamed up with Capital One, which is the WEDallas founding partner and title sponsor, on the WEDallas Mompreneur event. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the two organizations still hosted the annual event—this time as a virtual happy hour. As always, the event centered on being both a mom and a business owner, but this year’s event had…
If you missed it, here’s your chance to listen to this walking encyclopedia, @henrylouisgates. You’ll hear a covid-19 story that you haven’t heard before just as the show gets started. If you have watched @findingyourroots, you know how interesting and downright riveting he is. Imagine what it is like to sit with him in person and listen to him rattle off everything you’d ever want to know and…
There is power in the telling of a story. It’s even more powerful when it is personal and centers on culture. It’s the only kind of story @natashasalford tells, for herself and for @thegrio. She is the People’s Journalist and the Millennial Executive and on Thursday’s show, we discuss everything from how covid-19 is impacting black businesses, being black and Latina, her very own Coronavirus scare while managing…
SO MANY GEMS DROPPED! Did you know that Madam CJ Walker hosted one of her first Mary Kay-like conventions in 1917? Do you know what date that was in history? Just on the heels of the so-called “Spanish Flu” the only other pandemic in American history, and much like the #bossbabes of today, she had to weather the storm with her business during her era’s own #covid-19. Other…
YOU KNOW, I haven’t slown down since the slowdown. I canceled my daughter and my trip to Disney, but I never took the actual time off. I literally went into overdrive supporting people, their brands and their careers in light of Covid-19. But a conversation with my own mentor coach revealed that I needed some self care in a hurry. It seemed time to take a break, and…
When I asked Zara Green to come on the show, I had no clue that she had been exposed to COVID-19. She is self quarantining with her husband, SVP of Digital at Black Enterprise, Alfred Edmond Jr. She has a lot to say about how this crisis is impacting our relationships, every one of them. Unless we understand our priorities and our temperament, our relationships are in trouble. …