Highlights

Impact Magazine Presents: Cocktails And Coversations

Saturday, at Aloft Hotel, Impact Magazine powered an event hosted by The Musician Wives, Towanda Braxton, Kim Gagne, and Kandi Eastman entitled: #CocktailsAndConversations! You totally missed out if you were not there. This empowering event discussed work, family, health and more. My friends and I like to call it D&D (Drinks & Dialogue) where we get together and just discuss life. Life is so stressful with all that is going on in the world, sometimes you need sometime to breathe and Read more [...]

The Pros & Cons of Cuffin Season

We are here in one of the most beautiful yet annoying seasons of the year. Fall! You know what fall brings, pumpkin spiced EVERYTHING. You have pumpkin spiced lattes to spiced fingernail polish to pumpkin spiced burgers. Ok maybe not a burger, yet, but you get the point. Did you know there is another season that is equally popular around this time? Its so popular, Fabulous made a song about it. Yes that season is none other than Cuffin’ Season. For those of you who don’t know what Cuffin’ Read more [...]

Celebrating 15 Years of Women’s Health & Fitness

Today, we are celebrating 15 years of women's health and fitness. September 28, 2016, an estimated 50,000-80,000 women of all ages will participate in local health and fitness events at more than 500 community locations across the country as part of the 15th Annual National Women's Health & Fitness Day. This day was inaugurated in 2002 by The Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for consumer health information professionals. In addition to the Women's Health & Read more [...]

Katherine Johnson Turns 98 on Women’s Equality Day

No Better Way For A Woman Who Helped Shape NASA (Katherine Johnson) To Turn 98 Than On Women’s Equality Day!!! 2000 steps. 120 miles. 5 honorary degrees. 4 great-grandchildren. These are some of the numbers that have defined Katherine Johnson’s legacy. Katherine Johnson played by Taraji P. Henson in 20th Century Fox’s highly anticipated new film, HIDDEN FIGURES, is the real life mathematician, physicist and space scientist who the film is based on and the woman who profoundly Read more [...]

Originator of the #SoGoneChallenge, Grammy Award-winning Monica to headline The 2nd Annual Black Heritage Festival

August 17, 2016 -Houston, TX-The Houston Black Heritage Music and Arts Festival is back for its 2nd year. The highly anticipated festival will be held on September 17, 2016 at Discover Green from 4pm-10pm. The 2nd Annual Black Heritage Festival is a one day cultural event produced by the nonprofit 501c3 tax exempt organization, "The Foundation for Black Heritage and Culture". The festival features speakers, exhibits, musicians, artists, poets and craftspeople locally and nationally. The festival Read more [...]

W MAGAZINE AND THE GALLERIA TO HOST OPEN CASTING CALLS AUGUST 27

    NEW YORK, August 15, 2016 – W magazine and Simon Malls have teamed up to discover modeling talent across the country. Beginning on August 20, W and Simon will host casting call events at 10 shopping centers nationwide, including The Galleria on August 27. “Simon is dedicated to celebrating fashion, discovery and community at our iconic shopping centers,” said Christopher Lane, The Galleria’s Director of Marketing and Business Development. “We know our young shoppers love Read more [...]

Foodies Gear Up for 2016 HOUSTON RESTAURANT WEEKS

Eat your way thru philanthropy! It's back and it's better! August 1st kicks off the favorite month of the year for Houston Foodies! Houston Restaurant Weeks,  or #HRW, is the largest annual fundraiser for America's largest food bank. Planned by volunteers, HRW donates 100% of the funds raised to the Houston Food Bank. Participating restaurants make donations to the Food Bank based upon how many brunches, lunches and dinners they sell during the event. Some of your favorites will be participating Read more [...]

National Fried Chicken Day

It's July 6th and millions nationwide will be partaking in #NationalFriedChickenDay! History says Scottish immigrants are widely believed to have brought fried chicken to the U.S.A., but it was African immigrants, brought to work on plantations in southern states, that improved the recipe with varied spices and seasonings. Someway the lines got crossed and Fried Chicken became not only a negative connotation, and a stereotype. However, gone are the days where Mr. BoJangles is the face of fried chicken Read more [...]

Thoughts Before Midnight

It is not often that I reveal myself to the world. It's actually quite impossible when you are the person I am. Strong people can't break down. Happy, positive people came be sad. It confuses people. When you are the one constantly lifting people up around you, when you are down who lifts you up? Those people don't know how. If they did they would lift themselves up though they try. Subsequently, you are left to pick you up.   It is nights like this when vodka has run its course, when I Read more [...]

Have You Ever Been Stolen?

Have a thief ever came and took you? Have you ever been minding your own business and all of a sudden you look up and you were gone? You are probably thinking to yourself of course not. That would imply you being kidnapped. How can you get kidnapped as a fully comprehensive adult? Well it happens everyday, people get stolen by multiple things, lust, by infatuation, by greed, but most of all by love. You meet a person right after climbing yourself out of a vulnerable stage in life. You have learned Read more [...]