“That ‘S’ on the chest wasn’t for ‘Superwoman,’ ” she told attendees of Tuesday’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit. “It was for ‘Spent.’ “ Speaking at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women’s Summit Tuesday in Washington D.C., the president and chief executive officer of TIAA proclaimed that “work-life balance is a lie.” Thasunda Brown Duckett added that…
Tamar Braxton has sparked a new debate about dating. The singer and reality TV star took to Twitter on Monday, Oct. 11, addressing the topic of “going half” with your partner. Typically “going half” is related to both parties splitting the tab on a date, or even splitting the bills. According to Braxton, she does…
EXCLUSIVE: A dispute between Black members of Indigenous tribes and the federal government is part of a history that is now being exposed on Capitol Hill. Descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 are in line to get reparations from the United States government, but not for the massacre itself. Many of the Black…
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund files motion to intervene, saying government won’t defend farmers’ program aggressively. A group of Black farmers has filed a motion to intervene as part of a Texas federal court battle over $5 billion in debt relief for farmers of color. The motion was filed this week by the Federation…
A group of Howard University students has taken over a campus building in an effort to amplify their demands for change in multiple areas at the historically Black college in the nation’s capital. The sit-in began on Tuesday and was continuing as of Wednesday morning after students spent the night in the Blackburn Center to…
Tisha Campbell wants a clothing manufacturer to run her her coins after the company used her face to sell its items. The “Martin” star shared the news, which she dubbed “dumb ass shit,” on TikTok then reposted the video to her Instagram page on Saturday, Oct. 9. While she started off the clip laughing and…
Obviously, the worst thing about anti-vaxxers is that they are dangerous to the collective health of the general public, especially during an ongoing global pandemic. But it’s the pseudo-intellectualism and anti-intellectualism that make them insufferably annoying. It’s also the hubris in how they appear to believe they’re taking a stand against government tyranny when, really,…
Along with a brief clip of her new island home, Cardi B posted a message of gratitude on Instagram addressed to her husband. Migos rapper Offset gave his popular fellow-recording-artist wife an extravagant 29th birthday present: a stunning six-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom mansion on the gorgeous Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic. In announcing the gift she’d…
Denise Williams, 29, died during treatment for postpartum depression at a Queens Hospital. Now her family is demanding answers. Denise Williams, a 29-year-old Black mother of two, went to Queens Hospital Center in August seeking treatment for postpartum depression. Just 48 hours later, Williams’ family learned she had died — but why still isn’t clear….
EXCLUSIVE: In her “Designing Your Career” course on MasterClass, Welteroth shares how she built a dream professional path — and offers tips to follow. In an exclusive interview, Elaine Welteroth sat down with theGrio and opened up about her new course on MasterClass, what impact she wants it to have and other topics. Thursday night,…
