Category: Feature Story

Austin Texas, Beauty, Business, Community, Community Magazine, Digital Magazine, Entrepreneur, Feature Story, Health and Beauty, Latest Issue

Feature: Bonnie Skulark: A Home-Based Business Made with Love

Damita Miller-Shanklin When a friend and I walked into Craven + Maven, a beautiful shop on Springdale Road in Austin, I met Bonnie Skulark. She told us about the store and how all the items were made by local makers and artists. Skylark was part owner as well. She partnered with two other women to open this quaint store full of creativity and beauty. Here … Continue reading Feature: Bonnie Skulark: A Home-Based Business Made with Love

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Austin Texas, Celebrating the Vision, Community Magazine, Digital Magazine, Feature Story, Latest Issue

Ujma Magazine: Our Story is Your Story: 15 Years of Resilience, Unity, and Progress.

Our Roots: Ujima Magazine is an idea that comes out of quitting my job and wanting to be a writer. I wanted to tell stories about our Black Community and record our history. I had the opportunity to work with the late Akwasi Evans, of NOKOA Newspaper, and I knew I had a place to share stories of our community as well.  Ujima Magazine was … Continue reading Ujma Magazine: Our Story is Your Story: 15 Years of Resilience, Unity, and Progress.

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Austin Texas, Children, Feature Story, Health and Wellness, Latest Issue, Youth

Dr. Nakia Scott: Holistic Mental Health-Building on Strengths To Heal

Written by: Damita Miller-Shanklin Dr. Nakia Scott is a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in the Austin area. She pursued her education at UT (University of Texas) and attended medical school in Dallas. Later, she completed her residency and fellowship in child psychiatry at A&M (Texas A&M University) in Temple, Texas, finishing in 2007. Dr. Scott follows a holistic medicine philosophy in her practice, which … Continue reading Dr. Nakia Scott: Holistic Mental Health-Building on Strengths To Heal

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Austin Texas, Community Magazine, Digital Magazine, Entrepreneur, Feature Story, Lifestyle

[New Issue] Falling In Love with Natural Healing: Christina and Aaron Gobert

If you want learn about living and eating healthy, you will want to read our feature story with Christina Gobert. If you can share the link with your friends and followers, it would be greatly appreciated. Damita Miller-Shanklin Writer/Editor-in-Chief Continue reading [New Issue] Falling In Love with Natural Healing: Christina and Aaron Gobert

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Community Magazine, Digital Magazine, Feature Story, Latest Issue

March Feature: The Importance of Our Education and History

By Damita Miller-Shanklin You may remember Ms. Olyvia Green from our issue back in 2018. She was the first Black teacher at Pease Elementary. I reached out to her again because she is an Educator and I wanted to get her opinion about the school related issues in our country and black communities related to book bans, erasing of our history and more. I have … Continue reading March Feature: The Importance of Our Education and History

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