Black Women

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September 12, 2013
OPINION - We need to understand that gender roles are evolving. There is no longer a standard set of gender-based…
September 4, 2013
SLIDESHOW - The Amazon of the tennis courts stood at over racks of clothing, adjusting garments and making selections for…
August 30, 2013
OPINION - If we can muster the same unity to fight sexism that brought hundreds of thousands of people together…
August 29, 2013
OPINION - Where is the explanation for how or why black women were inexcusably omitted from this “smartest” list and…
August 29, 2013
OPINION - A PowerPoint slide, most likely shown at one of the university’s freshman orientation seminars, stated that Hampton ladies…
August 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Telling overweight women to stay at their current weight was more effective than asking them to lose…
August 21, 2013
OPINION - I offer my sympathy to the bride, who is undoubtedly mortified that her wedding did not take place…
August 19, 2013
ESSAY - Birth rates may be down because that is how some women and men want to live their lives.…
August 12, 2013
OPINION - King said recently, 'If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian' -- yet…
August 8, 2013
ANALYSIS - Study co-authors theorize that whites receive the surgery more often in part because of discrepancies in health insurance…
August 5, 2013
Iyanla Vanzant is making yet another splash with a video that has gone viral through the delivery of her special…
July 31, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The new head of the black women's lifestyle bible has worked for numerous publications over the course…
July 23, 2013
NBC News - Breast cancer may be killing black women at a higher rate than whites because they are sicker…
July 23, 2013
Now that I’m co-parenting the most terrific toddler you’ll ever meet, I want my experiences to positively impact singles dating…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Last week, Siohvaughn Funches, ex-wife of NBA star Dwyane Wade, turned heads by portraying herself as homeless…
July 14, 2013
If 'Daddyless Daughters' has as much impact as 'Fatherless Sons' did, by encouraging important revelations about the fall out of…
July 14, 2013
ESSAY - We may never be able to debunk the myth of the Angry Black Woman -- but we can…
July 9, 2013
ESSAY - I can fully appreciate Mary Jane for the same reasons I appreciate Kerry Washington’s portrayal of Olivia Pope…
July 7, 2013
ESSAY - I had two abortions years ago in the first trimesters, and today the only regret I have, is…
July 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT This Sunday morning, the Essence Festival kicked off a worship service that was shaking the rafters of the…