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Watch: Lori Lightfoot on why women are rallying behind Kamala Harris

Hope is one of the many words echoing throughout the United Center in Chicago this week at the Democratic National Convention, and Lori Lightfoot, who once led the city as mayor, says women are ready for Vice President Kamala Harris to lead America. She spoke with theGrio’s senior White House correspondent, April Ryan.  “Women of all stripes are rallying around her—very enthusiastic about her candidacy, and frankly because 2016 happened, what I hear from a lot of women is ‘we’re […]

todayAugust 22, 2024

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Harris’ DNC nomination is a debt owed to Black women, says MSNBC’s Joy Reid 

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) marks a historic feat for Kamala Harris. On Thursday, she will officially become the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to clinch the presidential nomination from a major political party. It’s a moment that can be seen as Democrats’ long-owed debt to Black women, who, for decades, have been regarded as the political backbone of the racially and ethnically diverse party.  “For me, as a Black woman, I look at it from […]

todayAugust 19, 2024 1

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An election guide to misogynoir and negative media stereotypes about Black women

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The Republicans simply cannot help themselves. With Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Trump and the GOP are tapping into their reservoir of hatred for Black people and relying on misogynoir and negative media stereotypes of Black women as an election strategy. This is all they have left. With Biden leaving the race only […]

todayAugust 5, 2024 1

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‘It would be a betrayal’: Thousands of Black women call out Dems amid efforts to oust Biden

A growing list of more than 2,600 Black women signed a letter to Democratic Party leadership, demanding that they not abandon President Joe Biden amid political pressure to suspend his reelection campaign. Organizers of the letter tell theGrio that ousting the 81-year-old president would be a “betrayal” to Black women across the country.  “We fought hard for this administration to win. Fought hard to make sure that it was a Black woman on that ticket. Fought hard and worked hard […]

todayJuly 20, 2024 1

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Black women in Puerto Rico suffer painful racism against natural hair. Will new law change things?

When Cynthia Collazo Pacheco was a 5-year-old girl growing up in Puerto Rico, she begged for a perm. After being called names like “monkey” in school, she’d come to think of her natural Afro-textured hair as a problem. But even a perm didn’t fully resolve the hate. “I would receive a lot of abuse from my classmates and comments about ‘smells like burnt hair,’ my hair, being called ‘dry,’” Collazo Pacheco told theGrio. “I hated my hair because I didn’t even know how […]

todayJuly 16, 2024 2

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Black women forced to choose between abortion and rent in post-Dobbs America

Jenice Fountain has seen women forced to make seemingly impossible choices. “I’ve noticed people using the last of their last to get out of state,” Fountain tells theGrio. “And if they’re not, they’re just like, well, I have to birth now.” As a reproductive justice advocate based in Alabama, Fountain has a front row to America in the era of post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down the right to an […]

todayJune 24, 2024

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We need Black women in office, now more than ever

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Juneteenth is a moment to celebrate the freedom of Black people across America and a reminder that freedom must be earned again and again. It was a Black woman, Opal Lee, who organized to deliver Juneteenth as a federal holiday. You might not know her name, or her story, when at age 89, she walked across 14 states — […]

todayJune 18, 2024

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A grant program for Black women business owners is discriminatory, appeals court rules

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory. The ruling against the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund is another victory for conservative groups waging a sprawling legal battle against corporate diversity programs that have targeted dozens of companies and government institutions. The case against the Fearless Fund was brought […]

todayJune 4, 2024 1

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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban takes effect as doctors worry women will lose access to health care

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. Dr. Leah Roberts, a reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist with Boca Fertility in Boca Raton, said the anti-abortion laws being enacted by Florida and other red states are being vaguely written by people who […]

todayMay 1, 2024 1