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June 21, 2010
OPINION - Regular exercise, portion-control and healthy eating habits are not routinely ingrained into the structure of African-American families...
June 18, 2010
VIDEO - An FDA advisory panel voted Friday not to recommend approval of a new drug that may boost sexual…
June 17, 2010
VIDEO - Mary J. Blige hopes that her role in hip-hop will empower women who follow her...
June 16, 2010
OPINION - It's about time that Hollywood think outside the box, and realize that black women are beautiful queens too...
June 8, 2010
In this month's issue of 'Vibe', the rapper says that black women need to lower their standards if they want…
June 5, 2010
OPINION - But besides the raw comedy, the league is also a great source of education for any woman who…
May 27, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - African-American women appear smitten with the former HBO series that ended several years ago only to resurface…
May 25, 2010
OPINION - And who does it bother more, black women or black men?...
May 24, 2010
OPINION - The black female body has become a battlefield that the popular imagination loves to hate, veering between opposite…
May 24, 2010
THEGRIO REPORT - "I've never had a problem with Barbie. I grew up with Barbie...It was just that this particular…
May 21, 2010
VIDEO - When Ayana Ball-Griffe crossed the finish line of the first triathlon she'd ever run, she noticed an odd…
May 12, 2010
Jeff Greene, the Palm Beach billionaire who jumped into the Democratic senate primary, chose Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champ…
May 10, 2010
OPINION - Be it a Beyonce, Gabrielle Union, a Jennifer Lopez or a Jennifer Aniston. All similarly shaped, none are…
May 7, 2010
OPINION - Black women have the highest rate of unintended pregnancies, despite that fact that they "are more positively inclined…
May 3, 2010
PITTSBURG, Calif. (AP) - Betty Dukes, an ordained Baptist minister, is the face of the largest gender bias class action…
April 28, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to billions of dollars…
April 27, 2010
OPINION - We must impress upon our young women that they are all sweet, no matter what sizes they come…
April 23, 2010
REVIEW - The new book focuses unflinchingly on the theme of strong black female communities and alternates between deconstructing the…
April 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama, dealing carefully with the explosive issue of abortion, said that he will choose a Supreme…
April 20, 2010
From Huffington Post: Dr. Dorothy Height, the matriarch of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 98.