NAACP report shows coal plant distribution burdens minorities
theGRIO REPORT - 'Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People' addresses the issue of coal-fired power plant pollution and its disproportionate impact on communities of color...
Black women and weight: Relocate to improve your self-image?
My current goal is to ensure that my obsession doesn’t turn into obesity as I find a happy medium between health and accepting my God-given curves.
Meet C.J., the child fitness instructor
theGRIOs 100 - C.J. Senter has six-pack abs, loves to exercise and has his own brand under which he produces a line of fitness DVDs. This sounds like your typical fitness instructor, except for one thing: Senter is only 10 years old...
Report: We are spending more on fattening foods
FRUGIVORE - Seems like these days Americans are spending more money at the grocery store. The problem is the increase in spending is on all the wrong things.
Jeanette Jenkins’ 5 tips for sexy summer abs
FRUGIVORE - While her clientele includes a smoking hot roster of stars, Hollywood trainer Jeanette Jenkins has no problem helping everyone get the body they dream of.
Military to study black women for solution to suicide spike
theGRIO REPORT - Veterans Affairs officials have announced that studying the uniquely supportive culture of black women might provide a key to addressing the spike in suicides occurring in the armed forces.
Obesity costs: The new second-hand smoke?
theGRIO REPORT - Not only are there health care costs associated with taking care of Americas growing number of obese transposition, health and safety costs are all being passed on to tax payers as well...
Grio's 100: Morehouse School of Medicine Dean
theGRIO's 100 - founder of the Center for Women's Health Research at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, devoted to studying diseases that are most prevalent in women of color...
Grio's 100: Maimah Karmo, Breast cancer survivor
theGRIOs 100 - Although Maimah Karmo was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago, she is now an inspirational and outspoken breast cancer survivor and creator of the Tigerlily Foundation.
theGrio's 100: 7-year-old fights bullying in her own book
theGRIO's 100 - There once was a little girl named Jessica, and her peers at school would make fun of her, saying she was overweight...
