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Meet the gymnast who scares Simone Biles the most

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 gymnast who Simone Biles fears the most is a Black woman from Brazil — Rebeca Andrade. “Rebeca Andrade. She scares me the most,” Biles said in her documentary,

How to Pivot With Purpose and Make Your Next Career Switch a Success

A career pivot is one of the most intimidating things you can do, especially when you’re considering leaving a career in which you are firmly established. Perhaps you’re not even sure if pivoting is the right move, or if it is, you’re not sure how to prepare for it or

Telfar wasn’t the only Black designer to outfit a 2024 Olympic team

In 2016, during the Rio Olympic Summer Games, Team Nigeria famously arrived for the opening ceremony in simple white and green tracksuits. Their actual opening ceremony kits failed to arrive in time. By the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Black-owned sportswear brand Actively Black, founded by former professional basketball player Lanny

Shirley Chisholm predicted this political moment. Now is the time to unite.

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In 1969, then-freshman Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm predicted this political moment.  During an interview with renowned English journalist David Frost on the orange, purple and maroon set of “The David

Meet the gymnast who scares Simone Biles the most

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 gymnast who Simone Biles fears the most is a Black woman from Brazil — Rebeca Andrade. “Rebeca Andrade. She scares me the most,” Biles said in her documentary,

How to Pivot With Purpose and Make Your Next Career Switch a Success

A career pivot is one of the most intimidating things you can do, especially when you’re considering leaving a career in which you are firmly established. Perhaps you’re not even sure if pivoting is the right move, or if it is, you’re not sure how to prepare for it or

Telfar wasn’t the only Black designer to outfit a 2024 Olympic team

In 2016, during the Rio Olympic Summer Games, Team Nigeria famously arrived for the opening ceremony in simple white and green tracksuits. Their actual opening ceremony kits failed to arrive in time. By the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Black-owned sportswear brand Actively Black, founded by former professional basketball player Lanny

Shirley Chisholm predicted this political moment. Now is the time to unite.

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. In 1969, then-freshman Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm predicted this political moment.  During an interview with renowned English journalist David Frost on the orange, purple and maroon set of “The David