Can a healthy marriage still feel isolating? In this Love & Legacy column, LaVianca Asante unpacks why sisterhood and experiential intimacy are essential for emotionally thriving relationships

HER Gov Summit 2026 arrives at a pivotal moment for women- and minority-owned businesses navigating the evolving world of government contracting. Hosted by TMC Consulting Group, the two-day Houston summit will connect entrepreneurs with procurement leaders, certification guidance, and strategic insight designed to help MWBEs access billions in public-sector opportunities.

We hope you found something that excites you and aligns with what you need in this season. Wherever you go, may it nourish your mind, uplift your spirit, and remind you that Charlotte is full of spaces created for you to take up space. Go explore, connect, and pour back into yourself. The Queen City is waiting, Sis

After seasons of giving, I finally tend to my own soul—and taste its sweetness.

Five prominent women in Black History gather around a table, have dinner, to share ideas and stories about being Black Women who dared to lead.

The museum appeared like a memory I hadn’t lived yet, breathing with names the world had tried to forget. As I moved through its halls, I understood it wasn’t built of walls at all, but of women waiting to be remembered.

At a Black History Month panel, former students and teachers of West Charlotte High reflected on a time when the school symbolized Black academic excellence and community pride. Their stories revealed both the power of segregated Black educational spaces and the cultural cost of desegregation — raising a pressing question: how do we restore the rigor, presentation, and excellence that once defined West Charlotte?

A "How To" guide to incorporate rest into our hectic lives, without impacting too much of your everyday life and responsibilities.

You’ve carried dreams, heartbreaks, and rebirths with a strength the world rarely sees—yet you’re still rising. Let go of what tried to break you, girl; there’s blessing waiting in the space you finally free.”

We often overwhelm ourselves with the things that life throws our way. Using the phrase from the show A Different Word, this is a guide to inspire all of us to be at peace, find comfort, and re-align as many times as life asks you to—your path can bend without breaking your dreams. Happiness has no deadline, and neither do you.

We grew up watching Black women move without pause. Mothers, aunties, and church ladies who carried the world on their backs, always in motion, rarely at rest. Their hustle shaped us, but it also taught us something they were never given space to learn: rest is not laziness. Rest is survival. Rest is power.

Major events often feel random, but what if they’re part of something deeper? This article explores the Ritual of the Free Man — a recurring pattern tied to names like Charlie, Carlos, and Carlee — and its eerie presence in the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the stabbing case of Decarlos Brown. Through symbolism, Christian prophecy, and the archetype of the “Free Man,” we uncover how media events may act as modern rituals, guiding us through cycles of freedom, chaos, and s