Bertice Berry Biography
Bertice Berry is a sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator from the United States.Berry has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, TEDx Talk, CBS Nightwatch, CNN’s Crossfire, and Sonya Live.
Bertice Berry Age
She was born in 1960 in the United States of America. Berry is 63 years old as of 2023.
Bertice Berry Education
Berry earned a B.A., magna cum laude, in 1982 from Jacksonville University in Florida. She later earned an M.A. in sociology in 1986 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1988 from Kent State University in Ohio. Jacksonville University bestowed an honorary D.H.L. degree on her in 1994.
Bertice Berry Family
Berry was one of seven children raised by a single mother in Wilmington, Delaware. Her family was impoverished, and her mother battled alcoholism. Berry reflected on her upbringing and her mother’s abuse in a 1994 article while “in one of her frightening stages of drunkenness.” Berry eventually forgave her mother, writing that “her drinking was a way for her to mask her own pain.”
Bertice Berry Career
Berry taught sociology at Kent State University after earning her doctorate.She left academia in the early 1990s to work as an entertainer, lecturer, and comedian. From 1993 to 1994, she hosted and co-produced her own nationally syndicated talk show, The Bertice Berry Show. According to legend, the show’s September 1993 premiere was delayed by news coverage of the Oslo I Accord; when it finally aired an hour later, Berry joked, “We’ve got peace, now here’s Bertice.” Berry has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, TEDx Talk, CBS Nightwatch, CNN’s Crossfire, and Sonya Live, in addition to her own talk show.
She is the author of several novels, as well as two memoirs, The World According to Me (1996) and I’m On My Way, But Your Foot Is On My Head: A Black Woman’s Story of Getting Over Life’s Hurdles (1997). She also wrote a memoir about her African American heritage, The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption (2009). Berry’s weight-loss memoir, A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets (2010), was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional) in 2012. Berry currently resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she co-owns Iona’s Gallery & Great Finds.
Bertice Berry Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
Bertice Berry Books- Author
- Walk With Purpose, Collide With Destiny
- A Year To Wellness; And Other Weight Loss Secrets
- The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption (2009)
- When Love Calls, You Better Answer (2006)
- Jim and Louella’s Homemade Heart-fix Remedy: A Novel (2003)
- Redemption Song: A Novel (2001)
- Haunting of Hip Hop (2001)
- I’m on My Way but Your Foot Is on My Head: A Black Woman’s Story of Getting Over Life’s Hurdles (1997)
- You Still Ghetto: You Know You’re Still Ghetto If… (1997)
- Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You’re Ghetto If . . .(1996)
- BERTICE: The World According to Me (1996)