Angelina Jolie meets with women, girls in eastern Congo
GOMA, Congo (AP) - Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant...
Jada Pinkett-Smith: 'Should black women's mags give whites covers?'
CLUTCH - Can we implore them to include us in their pages while we shut them out of magazines that are for us by us? Jada Pinkett-Smith believes that this request of mainstream magazines presents a conundrum...
Child abuse linked to asthma in black women
BLACKDOCTOR.ORG - Physical and/or sexual abuse may be potential asthma causes in black women. In fact, abuse may more than double the odds of a child having asthma...
Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg right?
OPINION - Yet Sandberg contends, and rightly so, that this handful of women (4 percent of Fortune 500 companies) isn’t enough, especially when women represent nearly half of the current workforce...
Why black women's history is important to commemorate
ESSAY - As Women's History Month progresses on theGrio, we invite you to participate as we fortify ourselves with the powerful histories of the famous and everyday women who have made a way for us to enjoy today...
theGrio's 100: Beverly Bond, encouraging young black girls to 'rock'
theGRIO's 100 - Beverly Bond is giving black girls the message their grandmothers or mothers didn't hear: 'you rock!'...
theGrio's 100: Keija Minor, breaking Conde Nast's color barrier
theGRIO's 100 - This past fall, Minor made history when she became the first African-American editor-in-chief in Condé Nast's 103-year history when she took the lead of Brides magazine...
Senate approves anti-violence against women act
WASHINGTON (AP) - By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians...
Are black women double victims of HIV?
theGRIO REPORT - There’s been a significant increase in HIV testing among black women in just the last three years. With that awareness, however, comes what some consider unfortunate consequence...
More diversity likely in next Obama job selections
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he prepares to announce a new wave of Cabinet and other senior posts, President Barack Obama is aiming to put a more diverse face on his administration...
