Women of Power: One-on-One with Tennis Phenom Venus Williams
At the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, tennis pro and entrepreneur Venus Williams talks career, losses and managing autoimmune illness.
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At the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, tennis pro and entrepreneur Venus Williams talks career, losses and managing autoimmune illness.
As an attorney who has defended and prosecuted hundreds of cases, I’ve learned that there is always more than one side to every story. Let’s take a look from the viewpoint of Starbucks and from the Philadelphia police department as to why two black men were recently arrested in a local Starbucks for “nothing.”
“I started a lawnmower business with a friend in junior high school because money was hard to come by in my family, and jobs were hard to come by in the community in the mid-1960s. We learned that we could create our own,†says McKinney.
Depression is more intense than the normal feelings of sadness or loneliness that everyone experiences occasionally. It is also different from the grief experienced within two months of the loss of a loved one. Major depression, also called clinical depression and one of the most common forms, decreases quality of life, impairs mental acuity and occupational and emotional functioning, and robs sufferers of experiencing their full potential. Usually precipitated by a traumatic life event or other trigger, an episode of clinical depression may occur only once in a person’s lifetime. But more often, it is a persistent, ongoing experience, with episodes that last for up to two years and that worsen without treatment.
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