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NBC News - Breast cancer may be killing black women at a higher rate than whites because they are sicker…
Now that I’m co-parenting the most terrific toddler you’ll ever meet, I want my experiences to positively impact singles dating…
theGRIO REPORT - Last week, Siohvaughn Funches, ex-wife of NBA star Dwyane Wade, turned heads by portraying herself as homeless…
If 'Daddyless Daughters' has as much impact as 'Fatherless Sons' did, by encouraging important revelations about the fall out of…
ESSAY - We may never be able to debunk the myth of the Angry Black Woman -- but we can…
ESSAY - I can fully appreciate Mary Jane for the same reasons I appreciate Kerry Washington’s portrayal of Olivia Pope…
ESSAY - I had two abortions years ago in the first trimesters, and today the only regret I have, is…
theGRIO REPORT This Sunday morning, the Essence Festival kicked off a worship service that was shaking the rafters of the…
VIDEO - No discussion of the state of African-American womanhood would be complete without delving into the images of black…
VIDEO - MSNBC host Tamron Hall invited Essence magazine editor-in-cheif emeritus Susan Taylor to discuss mentoring young African-Americans...
VIDEO - Scholar and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry spoke to civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about significant changes in the…
The gigantic, free convention center experience -- the complementary arm of the Essence Festival -- is nothing short of extraordinary.
Every Fourth of July weekend, thousands of black women and the people who love them journey to New Orleans to…
Like many African-American women, I grew up reading Essence Magazine, and feeling empowered by its images of beautiful, accomplished, black…
No one is more excited than I about MSNBC and Essence uniting for coverage of the 2013 Essence Festival live…
OPINION - Sometimes, us light-skinned girls need to be secure enough in our own blackness to simply listen...
OPINION - There is a growing crop of people who feel the 'Dark Girls' documentary’s biggest flaw is that it…
ESSAY - I’m not sure that those of us on the darker-end of the spectrum really need to maintain a…
theGRIO REPORT - What do you get when you take a group of stylish, ambitious black women and place them…