Author: Wendy Brawley

We’re starting 2017 focused on helping you “get it done!”  It’s time to get moving on the goals you’ve been putting off, year after year. That’s what Lesenta Lewis-Ellis did when she was downsized out of a job. She did it and you can, too! Read more about Lesenta and other women like her in the current edition of IMARA Woman Magazine.  

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When people of goodwill agree to tackle difficult topics like race, walls are tumbled and healing begins. That’s what happened at the Circle of Influence Leadership Summit when more than 100 community leaders gathered in Columbia to devise a community strategy to combat racial bias in South Carolina. The problem is complex, but the solution starts with an honest conversation. Respecting our differences helps us embrace what we all have in common, our humanity. Find out more about the four strategies developed at the Leadership Summit to foster racial healing in the Winter 2017 Edition of IMARA Woman magazine.   Thank you to…

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Let’s just be honest, most of us talk very differently about race when we are among people of a different race. It’s true and we all do it. Here we are some 52 years after the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination, and we are still hiding our true feelings about race and the emotions we all struggle with everyday. It is only when our conscience is pricked by the beating or shooting of an unarmed black man by the police that a national conversation on race resurfaces.  But a few weeks later it blows…

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Mailed Hard Copy : $18.00 USD – yearly eMagazine-Online : $15.00 USD – yearly Pictured above from left to right: Lee Ann Kornegay, Cynthia Watson, Betty Kornegay-Kaneft and Maggie Gibson-Bostic are a group of friends who formed “The Group of Change” to begin a meaningful dialogue on racial healing. Their story is inspiring changes of the heart in their circles by doing simple things that are making a difference. Read more about them and their group in the Fall edition of IMARA Woman magazine.   Mailed Hard Copy : $18.00 USD – yearly eMagazine-Online : $15.00 USD – yearly

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IMARA Woman Magazine Season Finale: Race in America with special guest Oveta Glover, (far left) who at 9 years old helped integrate South Carolina’s public schools in Charleston, SC, 53 years ago. And today, the fight for equity and equality in South Carolina’s public schools still continues. Plus, Colin Kaepernick is causing quite a stir by taking a knee rather than standing for The National Anthem at the beginning of the NFL games. He’s protesting police brutality and discrimination. Do you agree with his message and his method? Plus, final Presidential predictions.  The IMARA Team weighs in with their thoughts on…

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Let’s just admit it, change is hard. Even when we know it will benefit us, change is seldom easy. I’m not certain what it is about change that causes us to push it away, but we do. And, when we do, we miss opportunities to grow and prosper. Even if every change in life came with a positive guarantee, I suspect making those changes still wouldn’t be easy. The truth is, whether we embrace it or not, change is going to happen. Nothing stays the same. So, let’s prepare for change by living life to the fullest, embracing change when…

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Pictured above from left to right: Dr. Steve Wilson, Superintendent of Calhoun  County Schools and a 2016 IMARA Man Honoree with State Superintendent of Education, Molly Spearman; Dr. Cleveland Sellers, President of Voorhees College and a 2016 IMARA Man Honoree with Voorhees students; Senator Floyd Nicholson, S.C. State Senator from Greenwood County and a 2016 IMARA Man Honoree with students from his District. Mailed Hard Copy : $18.00 USD – yearly eMagazine-Online : $15.00 USD – yearly

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