Whether you’re 35, 55 or older, Fierce was created to be your partner on your journey to optimal health and wellness.
From research-based coverage of issues essential to Black women’s health to inspiring stories on enhancing your joy, lifting your spirits and living a balanced life, we want to contribute to your life in a way that’s meaningful to you.
Fierce is an award-winning digital publication that was created by Black women, for Black women, to be an essential resource to help us live our healthiest lives.
At Fierce, we know when to have fun and when to get serious about sharing the knowledge we all need to get healthy and stay that way. Even though we are fortunate to be living at a time when many of us are more successful than ever before, we still endure higher rates of many health risks than any other group in the United States.
We are committed to making sure you get the good news and the best advice about tackling our unique health challenges. We will keep you up to date on the latest research, controversies and, most important, solutions for protecting your health.
What Is FierceforBlackWomen.com?
Fierce celebrates the joys of life as a Black woman in ways that acknowledge our unique culture, while offering the latest advice on staying healthy, fit and fabulous. We are committed to reporting, hard news, fact-based consumer narratives and features on the health needs and interests of Black women.
Who Is the Fierce Woman?
She’s you. As part of the most successful, highly educated and independent generation of Black women in history, the Fierce woman makes every effort to live a full, rich, life that cannot be defined by narrow stereotypes. She has arrived or is striving to fulfill her dreams, because she’s proactive. Determined to be in charge of her well-being, she is in search of real-life solutions to health, wellness and living in ways that resonate with her culture, her heritage, her world.
Who’s Behind Fierce?
Fierce is for is led by veteran journalists who are experts in health, fitness and well-being. Editor-in-Chief Sheree Crute is an award-winning journalist with decades of experience exploring health and medicine in books, magazines and online. Publisher Yanick Rice Lamb is an award-winning journalist with three decades of experience successfully launching digital and print media platforms.
Team
Sheree Crute, Editor-in-Chief
Yanick Rice Lamb, Publisher
Ingrid Sturgis, CTO/Web Consultant, Digital Diva Inc.
Gina Toole Saunders, Designer
Nicole Crawford-Tichawonna, Web Producer and Associate Editor
Joyce E. Davis, Editor-at-Large
Karen Taylor Bass, Public Relations and Marketing Consultant, Taylor Made Media LLC
Advisory Council
Michelle Albert, MD, MPH
Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology
and Professor in Medicine
the University of California at San Francisco
Expert: Stress and cardiovascular disease in women
Pamela Braboy Jackson, PhD
Provost, Professor of Sociology
Inaugural Director
Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Indiana University
Expert: Health and the Black middle-class paradox
Rovenia Brock, PhD
Dr. Ro, “America’s Nutrition Coach”
Founder, Everything Ro; Consultant for Dr. Oz and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine
Expert: Nutrition, Weight Loss, Fitness
Verna Keith, PhD
Professor
Chair, Department of Sociology
Texas A & M University
Expert: Black women and depression
Linda James Myers, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Ohio State University
Expert: Psychology, culture and race
Brenda Wade, PhD
Creator and Founder of the Love, Money & Seva Seminars
Expert: Individual and Family Psychology; Relationships
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