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March 31, 2021

Black women lead initiative to raise $100M for Black girls and women in the South

The Southern Black Girls and Women's Consortium is fundraising in an initiative to raise $100 million to help empower girls…
June 29, 2017

Gloria Steinem says Black women taught her feminism, praises Black Lives Matter

In an interview with theGrio, Gloria Steinem slams so-called “white feminism," and credits Black Lives Matter for uprooting both sexism…
June 27, 2017

Winning Play$ and TheGrio celebrate Black women and feminism with Gloria Steinem

When Stacey Tisdale decided to create an event to empower Black women, one of the first people she called was…
December 19, 2016

This mompreneur is empowering young girls one upscale party at a time

Young girls face a myriad of challenges in this world -- especially the one that we currently live in...
July 5, 2014

Alicia Keys empowers black women to end AIDS

theGRIO VIDEO - Grammy winner Alicia Keys attended this year's Essence Festival with a message empowering black women to end…
July 7, 2013

There is nothing like the power of a woman who leads

ESSAY - I believe that God wants women to lead. If you listen to the small voice inside, you will…
July 1, 2013

Essence Festival 2013: An experience too good to pass up

Like many African-American women, I grew up reading Essence Magazine, and feeling empowered by its images of beautiful, accomplished, black…
July 1, 2013

For Essence Music Festival, broadcasting live from the city I love, New Orleans

No one is more excited than I about MSNBC and Essence uniting for coverage of the 2013 Essence Festival live…
February 26, 2013

theGrio's 100: Beverly Bond, encouraging young black girls to 'rock'

theGRIO's 100 - Beverly Bond is giving black girls the message their grandmothers or mothers didn't hear: 'you rock!'...