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May 12, 2020
Mother’s Day weekend can be bittersweet for a myriad of reasons. Over the holiday weekend, actress Lauren London had a
May 10, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting Black communities with ferocity, this will be the first Mother’s Day without mom for tens…
May 5, 2020
As a mental health advocate, public speaker, and philanthropist, Shanti Das has successfully braved life's storms while advocating for mental…
April 27, 2020
Marisa Renee Lee turned her personal experiences with grief into an online platform called Supportal, to help others facing the…
April 21, 2020
A talented teen athlete, Jo'Vianni "Jo" Smith, may have died by suicide because of the isolation required by the coronavirus…
March 25, 2020
As a result of national social distancing efforts, spaces we usually turn to for in-person connections have been closed mandatorily. Here's…
Barack Obama Black Man theGrio.com
March 25, 2020
Black men’s mental health improved when Barack Obama became the U.S. president, according to new research findings from Rice University.
December 23, 2019
Noticing the difficulty matching Black therapists with Black people seeking mental health aid, Eric Coly, decided to use technology to…
Kamala Harris
November 26, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to double the number of mental health treatment beds available across the country.
Doria Ragland Meghan Markle TheGrio
September 30, 2019
Looks like Meghan Markle gets her love of charity work from her mom Doria Ragland who was beaming this weekend…
September 11, 2019
TheGrio's Natasha Alford, explains how a powerful storyline on the hit OWN show, "Queen Sugar" helped her come to terms…
August 21, 2019
This week a Philadelphia man who was mercilessly harassed in a viral video for defending his relationship with a transgender…
July 18, 2019
Jordin Sparks opens up about postpartum struggles and why she says her husband is the "greatest thing" to ever happened…
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July 2, 2019
[griojw id=”q71SfLRU” playerid=””] TALES is back on BET for its second season and the show created by Irv Gotti will
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May 24, 2019
A clip of Kanye West’s sit down interview with David Letterman for the Netflix talk show My Next Guest Needs No…
Ayesha Curry
May 14, 2019
Ayesha Curry revealed that she chose to get breast implants while suffering from postpartum depression after having second child.
Taraji P. Henson
May 13, 2019
A list of female celebrities who should be applauded for speaking out about mental health in the Black community and…
May 10, 2019
Having dealt with her own struggles, the actress says is encouraging the public to reject the stigmatization around mental health…
Meghan Markle thegrio.com
May 10, 2019
While Duchess Meghan Markle is adjusting to life as a new mother to her baby boy Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, she's…
trauma
March 18, 2019
At a seminar focusing on the mental health of Black women a Baltimore psychologist says flatly, that emotional trauma needs…