Joint Heirs Magazine Summer Issue 2020

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CONTENTS

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Tamela Mann is a professional gospel singer, and actress. David Mann is a stage actor, gospel singer, and stand up comedian.The Mann’s are known for their

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Cocoa Brown - Actress, Writer, Comedian Most notably known for her lead role in Tyler Perry’s The Single Mom’s Club and For Better or Worse.

Joyce Sheffield owner of On And Off The Runway Boutique

starring roles in Tyler Perry’s plays, and movies.

Lisa Knowles – Smith “Loving Me Again Women’s Retreat”

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HEALTH TIPS - Protect Yourself and Your Family from Covid-19

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WE DID IT – Class of 2020 High Sc Graduates.

Designed by Ice Moments Empire | Executive Editor Rochella Stewart, UK

Say Hello Hello!

We are Erica Hitson and Kimberly Williams, (#thetwins) founders and editors of a God given vision, (platform) Joint Heirs Magazine. JHM, is an inspirational, and influential magazine full of entertainment with the latest updates on; *entertainers in music, ministry, sports, college graduates, entrepreneurs, and businesses.

Email us jointheirs817@gmail.com

Erica and Kimberly Founders

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ESTHER “Spreading The Gospel Through Gospel Music”

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Madisyn Hodges

chool And College

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Joyce Sheffield On and Off the Runway Boutique Email: onandofftherunwayboutique@gmail.com Instagram: @joycesheffield_ and @Joyce Sheffield Facebook: Joyce Sheffield and On and Off the Runway Boutique Websites: www.joyce-sheffield.com | www.onandofftherunwayboutique.com 4

It has been discovered that older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 illness.

KNOW HOW IT SPREADS There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.

The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.

Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).

Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks.

These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

Some recent studies have suggested that COVID-19 may be spread by people who are not showing symptoms.

EVERYONE SHOULD WASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN • Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.

• If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.

• Avoid close contact • Avoid close contact with people who are sick, even inside your home. If possible, maintain 6 feet between the person who is sick and other household members.

• Put distance between yourself and other people outside of your home.

• Remember that some people without symptoms may be able to spread virus.

• Stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arms’ length) from other people.

• Do not gather in groups.

• Stay out of crowded places and avoid mass gatherings.

• Keeping distance from others is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.

• Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others MORE INFORMATION CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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Ingeniously funny and extraordinarily talented are understatements when it comes to the multifaceted actor and NAACP Image® Award winner for Outstanding Actor In A Comedy Series (Meet The Browns, “Mr. Brown”), David Mann. A native of the “Bible belt” state of Texas, David masterfully showcases his God given talents in today’s most dynamic and distinguished genre.

Accentuating his already natural gift of making people laugh as a youth, David set his sights on acting. Finding his natural element, David was commonly cast as the production’s funnyman where his infectious comedic flair was visibly realized and fittingly unleashed. His accomplished performances quickly gained notable recognition advancing his diversified image into public notice.

In short order, David joined forces with world-renowned producer, director, actor, and playwright, Tyler Perry. The illustrious innovator had written, directed, and produced numerous plays including the hit stage play, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” where David remarkably immortalized the intrusively nosey, wisecracking, ashy-kneed, and outrageously funny neighbor, “Mr. Brown.” As was apropos, David’s bravo performance led the way for “Mr. Brown” to become a regular in Perry’s stage and film productions and in the hilarious television comedy, “Meet The Browns.”

David reprised the role of “Mr. Brown” for audiences on 2019’s massive Madea’s Farewell Tour. The tour was a sure-fire hit, playing to packed theaters across the country.

David and his wife, Grammy®-winning recording artist and actress Tamela Mann, together helm Tillymann Entertainment. They starred together in the NAACP Image® Award-winning docu-series “The Manns” and the hit comedy “Mann & Wife.” In 2018, the Manns released their first book and joint album, Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family. The book won a NAACP Image® Award for Outstanding Literary Work and the album continues to garner top-charting singles including the current Urban AC track, “Ups & Downs.”

For the latest updates on David & Tamela Mann: Website: www.tillymannmusic.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/davidtamelamann Instagram: @DavidandTamela

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Tamela Mann is a Grammy® Award Winner, BET Award winner, Billboard Music Award Winner, NAACP Image® Award Winner, Gospel Music Stellar Award Winner, GMA Dove Award Winner, actress, songwriter, producer, and businesswoman.

Her stage skills were first noticed by world-renowned producer, director, actor, and playwright, Tyler Perry, who chose her to appear in his play, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” in the role of “Cora Simmons.” From there her acting career grew as she continued to appear as “Cora” in Perry’s stage and film productions and in the hilarious television comedy, “Meet The Browns.”

Even as she’s enthralled audiences with her comedic acting over the years, Tamela has never strayed far from her first love of singing. Her Stellar Gospel Music Award-winning, GMA Dove Award-winning album Best Days debuted at No. 1 on multiple Billboard music sales charts and includes the No. 1 RIAA-Platinum certified single “Take Me to The King,” which earned Tamela her first Grammy® Award Nomination for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance.

Tamela set a historic personal and industry record as the first Gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel Airplay chart history to score three consecutive No. 1’s from an album. The string of hits from this album, Best Days, includes “Take Me to The King,” “I Can Only Imagine,” and “This Place.” The album received Billboard’s illustrious “Album of the Decade” for 20102019, in the Gospel category.

Tamela’s fourth studio album, the multiple music sales charting Billboard No. 1 album, One Way, garnered two more No. 1 singles, including “Change Me” and “God Provides,” which earned the singer her first Grammy® Award in 2017.

That same year, Tamela broke the record for the most No. 1’s in the history of Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart when “Change Me” became her sixth leader, then sat atop the chart for 14 weeks. She’s performed this single, her other award winning songs and appeared on such shows as Good Morning America®, the Grammy® Awards, The View, The Today show, “In Performance at the White House” before President Barak Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and many others.

Tamela and husband and business partner, actor/comedian David Mann, together helm Tillymann Entertainment. They starred together in the NAACP Image® Award-winning docu-series “The Manns” and the hit comedy “Mann & Wife.” In 2018, the Manns released their first book and joint album, Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family. The book won a NAACP Image® Award for Outstanding Literary Work and the album continues to garner top-charting singles including the current Urban AC track, “Ups & Downs.”

Tamela reprised the role of “Cora” for audiences on 2019’s massive Madea’s Farewell Tour.

The tour was a sure-fire hit, playing to packed theaters across the country.

Most recently, Tamela launched a new athleisure apparel line, the Tamela Mann Collection, which is available for limited edition purchase online at TamelaMann.com and in select retail stores. She joined the WW® (formerly Weight Watchers) family in spring 2019 as a WW® Ambassador.

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Joyce Sheffield On and Off the Runway Boutique Email: onandofftherunwayboutique@gmail.com Instagram: @joycesheffield_ and @Joyce Sheffield Facebook: Joyce Sheffield and On and Off the Runway Boutique Websites: www.joyce-sheffield.com | www.onandofftherunwayboutique.com 8

You could spread COVID-19 to others even if you do not feel sick.

Everyone should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public, for example to the grocery store or to pick up other necessities.

Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.

• The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected.

• Do NOT use a facemask meant for a healthcare worker.

• Continue to keep about 6 feet between yourself and others. The cloth face cover is not a substitute for social distancing.

• Cover coughs and sneezes • If you are in a private setting and do not have on your cloth face covering, remember to always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow.

• Throw used tissues in the trash.

• Immediately wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, clean your hands with a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.

• Clean and disinfect • Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.

• If surfaces are dirty, clean them. Use detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.

• Then, use a household disinfectant. Most common EPA-registered household disinfectantsexternal icon will work.

If you have general questions about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Please visit the CDC COVID-19 website.

WWW.CDC.GOV/CORONAVIRUS/2019-NCOV You can also visit the CDC website for answers to questions on other health topics.

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Whenever actress, comedian, and screen actors guild award nominee Cocoa Brown takes the stage, the world stands still!

Brown is undeniably one of the most talented comics and performers of this generation. The Newport News, Virginia native, born Farah Brown, assails her craft with such passion and soul-searching veracity, when she claims a stage the ensuing act is nothing short of a force of nature.

Cocoa Brown audaciously draws from painful reminiscences and hardknocked lessons, bravely weaving humorous tales that uplift, upend, and upgrade everything you thought you knew about comedy. What is it that drives the comic who female fans nationwide have nicknamed the “The Truth?” It’s the sheer will of a woman who survived the worst life had to offer and is still standing.

Most notably known for her lead role in Tyler Perry’s The Single Mom’s Club and For Better or Worse, the hilarious comedian/actress Cocoa (pronounced Co-kah) Brown treats audiences to thought-provoking humor in which she declares “I don’t tell jokes I tell the truth!” Her Grown Woman delivery both on stage and on the screen in supporting roles such as FX’s American Crime Story, NBC’s Marlon, and most recently FOX’s critically acclaimed 9-1-1, has generated a large and loyal following all over the world and has proven to her fans old and new that not only is she a funny comedian but she is also a versatile actress.

Cocoa has had guest star roles on several other notable TV projects including 2 Broke Girls, Psych, The Soul Man,The Neighborhood and Breaking Bad as well as supporting roles in major motion pictures such as films as Ted 2 (in which she was hand-picked for the role of “Joy”

by Seth MacFarlane), Lakeview Terrace with Samuel L. Jackson, Lethal Procedures directed by Jahmar Hill and His, Hers, and the Truth which is one of the official selections of the 2019 American Black Film Festival!

Being appropriately dubbed as a “comedy machine gun” by America’s Got Talent judge Sharon Osbourne, she has received numerous awards including the DC Comedian of the Year after only a short time of stand-up and was handpicked by the family of Moms Mabley to receive the 2018 Moms Mabley Legacy Award. She is a fan favorite and has been all over the world touring regularly and has also been featured on the Showtime Network Shaquille O’Neal Comedy AllStars as well as a featured performer at the 2018 Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.

Not only do audiences get a great show but they feel as though they have gained a friend. Cocoa says, “If my audience feels like they know me, then that means I’ve connected with them and I’ve shared my gift.” Cocoa has a style that relates to both women and men and an energy and warmness on and off the stage that has earned her the respect and love of crowds and colleagues alike. There is no doubt that you will see Cocoa Brown continue to take her life and her 10

career by the reigns and maneuver it on her own terms and what will manifest from that will blow your minds!

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TANIYA IVEY

AKERRIYANA GOLSON

FAYTH FUQUA

KIARA MILES

Graduate of BrewTech Magnet High School Montgomery, AL.

Graduate of Muscle Shoals High School (Muscle Shoals, AL.) Fayth will be attending the University of AL. 12 Tuscaloosa, AL. (future pediatric nurse)

Graduate of Selma High School - Selma, AL.

Graduate of Lanier High School Montgomery, AL

LATTICE ZIMMERMAN

Graduate of Alabama State University

MARY THORNTON

Graduate of Tuskegee University

DESIREE MACK

Trenholm State Community College 13

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Madisyn Hodges

JHM would like to shine a light on Madisyn Hodges.

Madisyn celebrated her 9th Birthday on May 17th.

This little princess is a native of Muscle Shoals, AL. Home of Fame Recording Studios.

She’s an A-B honor roll student at Hatton Elementary located in Leighton, AL. She will be in 3rd grade fall 2020.

JHM asked the 9 year old Birthday Princess some questions. Here’s what she desired to share with JHM readers around the world.

Question: “What would you like to be when you grow up?”

Answer: “Oh that’s easy! I would like to become a veterinarian, because I love helping animals. My next choice would be a physician, like a medical doctor because I enjoy helping people.

outside. I love when my mom, and I do things together. I love being around family. I love going to church, and I love singing.

Question: “What’s your favorite subject in school?

Answer: “My favorite subject is Math.”

Question: “What difference would you like to make in your community and/or the world?

Question: What’s your favorite pets?

Answer: “I would like to help the community by Answer: I love dogs, like the small ones. stopping people from throwing out trash. A clean, My favorite animals are horses. and healthy environment keeps people from getting infection, and germs.

Question: “What do you enjoy doing?”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADISYN!

In October of 2012 God gave Jillian Baskerville (the founder of the group) a vision for a women’s Gospel Group who were all Praise and Worship Leaders. The vision is to set the atmosphere threw music that Glorifies God, and to be an example for women and men of all ages through our music.

The Ladies of Esther is a female gospel group from Los Angeles, California. Made up of four young women on fire for God. Jillian, Trameka, Joi, DeChandra are on a mission to touch and minister to people and encourage them through song. Doors of opportunity have opened for Esther at a rate that wasn’t anticipated for which they are grateful.

Esther has shared the stage with Todd Delaney, Casey J., Israel and New Breed, James Fortune, Pastor Charles Jenkins, and some of the greats in the Los Angeles area to name a few.

Esther was Nominated for the Texas Gospel Music Excellence Award for Female Gospel Group. As well they have released there 1st Single “Give Him the Praise” that’s now charting on the Billboard charts and also their latest single is now available “LOVE”.

Although Esther is a fairly new group, the ladies have been spreading the gospel through music for many years. Esther has the ability to speak to hearts of young and old and captivating hearts bringing the presence of the Holy Spirit everywhere they go.

Eyes have not seen, nor ear have heard what God is doing with this anointed group, Ladies of Esther. www.ladiesofesther.com

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Joyce Sheffield On and Off the Runway Boutique

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Email: onandofftherunwayboutique@gmail.com Instagram: @joycesheffield_ and @Joyce Sheffield Facebook: Joyce Sheffield and On and Off the Runway Boutique Websites: www.joyce-sheffield.com | www.onandofftherunwayboutique.com