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April 2, 2013

‘The Gossip Game’ Sharon Carpenter and Vivian Billings on women covering hip-hop

theGRIO VIDEO - Hip-hop is still a boys club and for aspiring journalists that want to cover the 30 year…
April 1, 2013

Bigger than Rick Ross: Hip-hop has to take responsibility for its objectification of women

OPINION - While we rightfully attack Rick Ross for his irresponsible lyrics, we also have to attack the culture that…
March 25, 2013

Angelina Jolie meets with women, girls in eastern Congo

GOMA, Congo (AP) - Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant...
March 21, 2013

Jada Pinkett-Smith questions: 'Should black women's mags put white women on their covers?'

CLUTCH - Can we implore them to include us in their pages while we shut them out of magazines that…
March 13, 2013

Child abuse linked to asthma in black women

BLACKDOCTOR.ORG - Physical and/or sexual abuse may be potential asthma causes in black women. In fact, abuse may more than…
March 12, 2013

Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg right?

OPINION - Yet Sandberg contends, and rightly so, that this handful of women (4 percent of Fortune 500 companies) isn’t…
March 1, 2013

Women's History Month: On the importance of black women's history

ESSAY - As Women's History Month progresses on theGrio, we invite you to participate as we fortify ourselves with the…
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!'...
February 18, 2013

theGrio's 100: Keija Minor, breaking Conde Nast's color barrier at Brides

theGRIO's 100 - This past fall, Minor made history when she became the first African-American editor-in-chief in Condé Nast's 103-year…
February 12, 2013

Senate approves anti-violence against women act

WASHINGTON (AP) - By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with…
February 8, 2013

Are black women double victims of HIV?

theGRIO REPORT - There’s been a significant increase in HIV testing among black women in just the last three years.…
February 5, 2013

More diversity likely in next Obama job selections

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he prepares to announce a new wave of Cabinet and other senior posts, President Barack Obama…
January 28, 2013

Barack Obama's historic transformation of the American military

OPINION - Just days into his second term, President Obama has reinforced his legacy; he will be remembered for transforming…
January 24, 2013

Obama expresses support for US women in combat

WASHINGTON (AP) - Allowing women to serve in combat roles will strengthen the U.S. military's ability to win wars, Defense…
January 24, 2013

For female troops it's no longer 'a man's world'

OPINION - As a former Marine, I also understand that progress takes time...
January 23, 2013

Pentagon chief Panetta to open combat roles to women in US military

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in…
January 22, 2013

40 years after Roe v. Wade, abortion foes march on

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Tuesday with workshops, prayers…
January 17, 2013

GOP to discuss minority outreach at ‘Burwell Plantation’ room

OPINION - Of all the locations to hold a retreat in all of the world, they had to choose this…
January 17, 2013

First lady Michelle Obama debuts hairstyle with bangs on new Twitter account

theGRIO REPORT - One of the first tweets from Mrs. Obama's new account is already garnering attention....
January 15, 2013

theGrio’s 100: Kat Calvin, founder of ‘Black Girls Hack’

theGRIO's 100 - Kat Calvin is the founder of 'Black Girls Hack', the country’s first all-black female hack-a-thon.