About Sophiaredefined

All Articles

theGrio featured stories
February 19, 2012
OPINION - We lose someone iconic like Whitney Houston, and suddenly we are grudgingly reminded of the Latin maxim Tempus…
theGrio featured stories
January 7, 2012
TheGrio LIFE&STYLE -- Aretha Franklin has found love at 69 years of age and I think in doing so, the…
theGrio featured stories
January 6, 2012
OPINION - President Lincoln would grimace at what the GOP has become and so would many of the great leaders…
theGrio featured stories
December 23, 2011
OPINION - Melody C. Barnes, President Obama's Domestic Policy Council Director; gave a private, farewell interview to five members of…
theGrio featured stories
December 19, 2011
OPINION - The old adage hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, is about to take on new meaning…
theGrio featured stories
December 5, 2011
OPINION - This past weekend was very eventful on the high-profile 'Atlanta black marriage' front...
theGrio featured stories
November 3, 2011
OPINION - Your biggest fear as a potential complainant is that you will be professionally black-balled and isolated, or worse…
theGrio featured stories
October 31, 2011
OPINION - Conservatives and Tea Party activists who like Cain will not take kindly to allegations that he sexually harassed…
theGrio featured stories
October 27, 2011
OPINION - The 2012 GOP primary field is simply not ready or able (at this juncture anyway) to truly take…
theGrio featured stories
September 28, 2011
OPINION - The controversy that has erupted on UC Berkley's campus, and spread to a few others is a symptom…
theGrio featured stories
September 23, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with Edelman for a one on one interview about the state of education and…
theGrio featured stories
September 13, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - In advance of the larger roundtable that the White House convened today, theGrio was able to speak…
theGrio featured stories
September 11, 2011
OPINION - When we think of 9/11, we rightly remember the tragedy and abject horror of the day. Yet, I…
theGrio featured stories
August 30, 2011
OPINION - I can tell you first hand it is painful and degrading and I am not surprised at any…
theGrio featured stories
August 25, 2011
OPINION - A long list of 'unsung' black heroines marched, sat, rode, bled and died in the struggle for equality…
theGrio featured stories
August 20, 2011
OPINION - The facts tell us that despite all of our newfound status, education and accomplishments, black women in America,…
theGrio featured stories
August 9, 2011
OPINION - The 800 lb elephant in the room, however, is the issue of her race and status and how…
theGrio featured stories
August 5, 2011
OPINION - The question is not whether we should call Obama out when he errs, but in what forum, manner…
theGrio featured stories
May 15, 2011
OPINION - Young black women in their 20s and 30's especially look up to Mrs. Obama. She gives them tangible…
theGrio featured stories
April 28, 2011
OPINION - We cannot grow stronger, richer and faster as a nation if we continue on this course of hate…