via GMA: Kobe Bryant may forever be remembered as a basketball legend, but to his daughters and others that knew him, he was also a “girl dad.” As many around the world continue to mourn the loss of the basketball star and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, the term, “girl dad” became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter […]
via FirstLadyB: An Inspirational video was made for little girls from Barbie telling them that the can do anything!! The video shows little girls working as a professor, a tour guide, a veterinarian, a soccer coach and a business woman as adults watch on with smiles on their faces at the little ladies acting out […]
viaFirstLadyB: STEPH AND AYESHA CURRY ARE LOOKING OUT FOR OUR GIRLS! The couple, through their foundation has launched a scholarship program for girls interested in STEM. The Steph and Ayesha Curry Foundation will award a $30,000 scholarship annually to a young lady from the Bay area in California. he scholarship was inspired by a 9-year-old girl named Riley […]
via getupmornings: Grab a tissue because GRIFF has us a little emotional this morning. GRIFF spoke about his 11-year-old daughter and spending quality time with her. She’s with him for the summer and talked about a special time called “Daddy Daughter Day.” It’s a day to go to the park, read, bond and do nothing. He loves […]
The rush to sign kids up for summer camps is always intense, but this past summer, few filled up as quickly as the one targeted at girls interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). My family lives in a college town, home to one of the top-ranked science schools in the country, and getting […]
First lady Michelle Obama will mark International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11 by Skyping with girls around the world about education challenges in their lives. The event is sponsored by Glamour magazine’s The Girl Project, which offers education help to more than 50 million girls worldwide. Obama will be joined from the Newseum […]
getty images Michelle Obama tapped some big voices to help deliver her push to get girls educated across the world. The U.S. first lady went to Broadway on Monday to host a concert for the spouses of global heads of state that included performances from the female-centric shows “The Color Purple,” ”Waitress,” ”Wicked” and “Beautiful: […]
“I think that being African American has definitely been a huge obstacle for me,” Misty Copeland explained in a conversation with President Barrack Obama and Time reporter Maya Rhodan earlier this year. “But it’s also allowed me to have this fire inside of me that I don’t know if I would have or have had if […]
Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA. A young woman sits quietly in a cramped office waiting for her counselor to give her the results from recent tests. She wonders:why have they called me back. I did have sex, I guess I could have gotten […]
Award-winning contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Natalie Grant has been in the spotlight for almost 17 years, and with numerous awards, hit records and even a biography of her own under her belt, she now turns the spotlight in a different direction. Her daughters. In the first two books of the four-part series “Glimmer Girls,” Grant, with […]
GETTY IMAGES First Lady Michelle Obama has written a powerful, poignant essay about the need for all girls around the world to have access to an education. The First Lady has been a passionate advocate of girls’ education, and recently launched an initiative alongside President Obama called Let Girls Learn, which seeks to aid […]
62 million girls. That’s the number of girls around the world who are not in school. On Saturday, first lady Michelle Obama announced a new campaign during the star-studded Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park to raise awareness of the issue. “I see myself in these girls. I see my daughters in these […]
