Aide denies Jackson Jr. suicide attempt rumors

Jonathan Radford

theGRIO REPORT - Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) is now facing pressure from his own party to come forth about his medical condition, while his aides are busy denying rumors that the embattled lawmaker has attempted suicide...

FDA approves first rapid, take home HIV test

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes...

Can health reform reduce inequities?

Brian Smedley

OPINION - All of these provisions would improve the current state of health care for people of color, who are disproportionately un- and under-insured...

Meet C.J., the child fitness instructor

Keosha Johnson

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...

Wade Davis reminds us of HIV stigma gays face

Ronald Johnson, AIDS United

OPINION - AIDS is still killing black men at an alarming rate. And all of us must show our support and join the fight to end this epidemic...

Black women with HPV face greater cancer risks

Frugivore

FRUGIVORE - According to the NY Daily News, new studies reveal why black women are 40% more likely to develop and 200% more likely to die from cervical cancer than white women.

Are black childhood obesity tests race-baited?

Frugivore

FRUGIVORE - Why did more than half of the parents of white girls have a college degree and have more income, while less than one-quarter of the black girls’ parents had a degree?

Study: Black girls don't benefit as much from exercise

Madame Noire

MADAME NOIRE - A pair of British researchers have published a paper in the 'Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,' saying black girls and women don’t benefit from working out as much as white ones do.

Chaka Khan's weight loss from protein diet

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - The slimmer curves sported by Chaka Khan, it turns out, are due to an extreme protein diet on which the diva subsisted for four months.

'Bigorexia': When bigger isn't better

theGrio

VIDEO - Therapists say some bigorexics are compelled to work out and add muscle mass...