About Sophia A. Nelson

Sophia A. Nelson is a contributing editor for theGrio. Nelson is a TV commentator and is the author of "The Woman Code: Powerful Keys to Unlock," "Black Women Redefined."

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Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wy.)
June 10, 2022
The opening of the historic hearings of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee on Thursday night was, in a word:…
Sign reading "Enough" with an image of a gun
June 7, 2022
We the people need to fight back and demand our congressional leaders act to bring about common-sense gun reform.
A woman sits in lotus position on a beach
May 28, 2022
This has been a rough Mental Health Awareness Month for America, but particularly for Black and brown Americans.
Buffalo, N.Y., shooting suspect Payton Gendron
May 16, 2022
The Republican Party and conservative media pushing racist rhetoric are a clear and present danger to the United States of…
May 6, 2022
It hasn’t been since the days of President Dwight Eisenhower when large numbers of Black voters and leaders considered themselves…
May 3, 2022
Let me say at the outset that I am pro-life. I have taken this faith position on abortion since I…
April 27, 2022
A survey supports longstanding research that shows Black workers, especially Black women, feel less valued and respected by colleagues.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
April 6, 2022
GOP Senator Tom Cotton, in a word, is sinister. His latest attack on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…
94th Annual Academy Awards - Show
March 28, 2022
We, as Black people, are so used to violence and trauma that many of us normalize it.
March 24, 2022
It is not OK to beat up on an accomplished Black woman during an important, historic and very public job…
March 21, 2022
Shame on Senate Democrats for not punching back hard on Republican insurrectionist defender Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
February 28, 2022
Is it ever OK for a Black icon like former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend corporations accused of…
Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu
February 18, 2022
Judge Regina Chu got emotional as she talked about officers risking their lives every single day in public service:
Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio)
February 9, 2022
The latest stunt by a Republican lawmaker against a Black woman in Congress should be a dealbreaker for us all.
Ron DeSantis theGrio
February 2, 2022
I know I am asking a rather loaded question. But it is one for which I have been desperately searching…
The nine members of the Supreme Court in 2021 in their black judicial robes
January 26, 2022
President Joe Biden owes Black women BIG. It was Black women who rallied for him in the South and who…
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, wearing a black formal jacket, squints into the sun from behind a podium
January 18, 2022
The state's GOP leaders would do well to remember that they do not have a mandate to run wild with…
Lani Guinier theGrio
January 9, 2022
The world lost a brilliant legal mind and an amazing human being when longtime Harvard professor Lani Guinier died on…
Capitol insurrection
January 4, 2022
It's hard to believe it has been one year since we witnessed the unthinkable in real time on national television.
self-care new year
December 31, 2021
Another year has come and gone, and right at the top of everyone's new tear's resolution list is "self-care."