Beauty

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May 20, 2011
OPINION - Are industry pressures (and perhaps personal insecurities) forcing Beyoncé to go light, bright, and damn near white?...
May 20, 2011
VIDEO - How do you feel about Oprah's show coming to an end? Is now a good time for her…
May 17, 2011
OPINION - With such a wide audience and aspirational mission statement, it seems completely counter-intuitive that they would stoop so…
May 14, 2011
OPINION - It's clear that in society's imagination to be nappy is to be unattractive, undesirable and unkempt...
May 6, 2011
VIDEO - 'Jumping the Broom' brings two black families together from different parts of town. Do you believe that there…
April 15, 2011
VIDEO - A recent study from the Cleveland Clinic found that permanent hair loss affecting African-American women can be linked…
April 13, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Now braids and weaves are causing a new concern for many black women -- they are causing…
March 4, 2011
VIDEO - When celebrities like Jennifer Hudson lose weight, are they sending the message that women need to be thin…
March 2, 2011
OPINION - It appears that when it comes to her body, Jennifer has yet to find that magic number to…
February 23, 2011
VIDEO - Blair Griffith and her mother Bonita, were evicted from their home last November. It was only a month…
February 18, 2011
SLIDESHOW - With more than 200 fashion shows in and around the tents at Lincoln Center, there were only a…
February 18, 2011
CLUTCH - This week, when pictures of Beyoncé in Los Angeles for the Grammys hit the web, people seemed to…
February 18, 2011
VIDEO - Does she face different challenges because she is African-American?...
February 17, 2011
O.B. Nizam, an Altanta based hair care business owner, is in a trademark battle over the name of his product…
February 16, 2011
OPINION - There is a level of exotic voyeurism that goes into touching a black person's hair...
February 11, 2011
OPINION - Claudia Aderotimi's death is the result of life in a world that appraises beauty by level of difficulty:…
February 11, 2011
An Immigration Custom's Enforcement agent had been watching the Hampton Inn for possible drug activity at the time of the…
February 7, 2011
OPINION - Given the fact that black women only seem to score one appearance in an ad each Super Bowl…
February 4, 2011
VIDEO - Mrs. Johnson, who was the wife of the late John Johnson, patriarch of Johnson Publishing, launched the Ebony…
February 4, 2011
VIDEO - What do you think about the progress African-American women made in history?...