Women

Paloma Elsesser, Model of the Year, British Fashion Council, Paloma discusses backlash, Black plus-size model, Kanye West, theGrio.com
Paloma Elsesser opens up about winning Model of the Year and how she regrouped after the backlash.
/ February 15, 2024
Las Vegas Aces forward A'ja Wilson, Vice President Kamala Harris and guard Chelsea Gray
Diversity hiring throughout the WNBA soared, TIDES' study says, despite the league's dip in the racial score for head-coach hiring.
/ February 15, 2024
Besides Clarke's, other portraits in the Mississippi Capitol are of former governors and former House speakers, who were all white…
/ February 14, 2024
Beyoncé, Renaissance World Tour begins, Renaissance Tour fashion, Beyoncé style, Black fashion, Black style, theGrio.com
Several Super Bowl ads featured prominent stars from hip-hop, but Beyoncé made the most of her Verizon commercial by dropping…
/ February 12, 2024
hair relaxers, hair straighteners, formaldehyde in hair relaxers, formaldehyde in har straighteners, dangers of hair relaxers, carcinogens in hair straighteners, dangers of formaldehyde, Black hair, straightening Black hair, FDA, FDA approval of hair products, theGrio.com
Formaldehyde has long been classified as a carcinogen, so why is the FDA only now moving to ban it in…
/ February 9, 2024
"Lucky" Luciano was no match for Carter, who years earlier was the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University…
/ February 9, 2024
As adults, and particularly as women, choosing how we dress every day is one of the simplest forms of personal…
/ February 1, 2024
A bill now in the Florida Senate would make it defamation to accuse someone there of being racist, homophobic, transphobic…
/ January 24, 2024
Ms. Black Kentucky Ciara Johnson
Ciara Johnson, the current Ms. Black Kentucky, has some of her clothing pieces available on the online shopping retailer Shein.
/ January 24, 2024
White House lectern
The names of the first Black female White House reporters live on with the designation of a new press room…
/ January 23, 2024
Spelman said that it would use $75 million to endow scholarships, the rest going toward academic development and housing.
/ January 19, 2024
Cori Broadus, Snoop Dogg's daughter, Lupus, Black women with Lupus, Lupus survivor, Black women's health, theGrio.com
Snoop Dogg’s daughter Cori Broadus reveals on social media she had a stroke early Thursday morning.
/ January 18, 2024