Chanté Griffin, Good Housekeeping

Chanté Griffin

Good Housekeeping

Los Angeles, CA, United States

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  • Good Housekeeping
  • JSTOR Daily
  • The Root
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Washington Post
  • The Establishment
  • The Chicago Defender
  • Michigan Chronicle

Past articles by Chante':

Here's Why We Celebrate Black History Month in February

If you're wondering why Black History Month is in February, the tradition began in 1926 as just a week-long observance, then expanded into a month-long celebration in 1976. → Read More

Kwanzaa: The Traditions Symbols & History Behind the Celebration

Traditionally observed from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa is a celebration designed to support the social, cultural and economic fabric of the African-American community in the U.S. → Read More

The Gospel According to Kanye West

On the making of gospel music, from Gospel Pearls to Jesus Is King. → Read More

Lizzo Says She’s Taking Break From Twitter Because of Trolls

We’ve all heard that mo’ money equals mo’ problems, but on Sunday Lizzo reminded us that mo’ fame equals mo’ trolls, especially when you’re a big, beautiful black woman who unashamedly twerks on demand. → Read More

South Carolina State Rep. Apologizes for Accusing Military Cadets of Using White Power Hand Signs

South Carolina state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell, a Democrat from Lancaster, issued an apology Monday after an internal military investigation concluded that the hand signals flashed by a group of cadets during the Dec. 14 Army-Navy game were not white nationalist symbols. → Read More

Allee Willis, Songwriter of Earth, Wind and Fire’s 'September,' Has Died

Allee Willis, the prolific songwriter who penned Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September” and the Broadway musical, The Color Purple, has died at age 72. → Read More

White Woman Hits Black Boy and Latina Teen With SUV on Same Day

Last week The Root reported that Nicole Poole Franklin, a 42-year-old Des Moines woman, told the Clive Police Department she ran over a 14-year-old girl because the girl “was a Mexican.” Now police have charged Franklin with attempted murder again—this time for hitting a 12-year-old black boy with her vehicle, an incident police say took place on the same day, Dec. 9. → Read More

Rapper 50 Cent Rents Out Entire Toys 'R' Us Store for Son as Christmas Gift

When 7-year-old Sire Jackson told his father, rapper and actor 50 Cent, that he wanted a Toys ‘R’ Us store for Christmas, he didn’t think his dad would shut one down for him, but that’s exactly what the 44-year-old performer did. 50 Cent, also known as Curtis James Jackson III, unveiled “Sires’ Toys ‘R’ Us” on Friday in Paramus, New Jersey. → Read More

L.A. Affairs: Forget 'Facebook official.' I'll know it's real when we take an 'usie'

We’re getting closer, but there’s something that we haven’t done yet, something that will catapult our relationship into “couple” status… We haven’t taken an “usie.” We haven’t whipped out the cellphones, hit the front-facing camera button and grinned wide for the camera, our faces cheek to cheek in love-soaked glee. → Read More

How Natural Black Hair at Work Became a Civil Rights Issue

On the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. courts are still divided about African Americans’ right to wear their natural hair in the workplace. → Read More

Beyond ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Baby-Sitters Club’: How (and why) to find more diverse books

The literary canon we studied and love lacks diversity. That's not our fault, but we can make up for that now. → Read More

The dark side of Kwanzaa's founder can't extinguish the holiday's beacon

Events of the last two years once again show the need for Kwanzaa, which calls African Americans to collective action, but the founder's crimes give one holiday observer pause. → Read More

8 Fight-the-Power Costumes Sure to Scare Wypipo

Yo, it’s been a hard year for black people. Overt racism and microaggressions abound. Here are eight costumes that you can wear to reclaim and proclaim your power. → Read More

‘She Got Next!’ Black Female Comedy Writers Talk The Whitewashing Of American TV

From #OscarsSoWhite to #EmmysSoBlack, the conversation about Hollywood’s exclusion and inclusion of people of color — both in front of and behind the camera — has taken center stage in recent years… → Read More

4 Things HBCU Leaders Should Have Done At Trump Meeting

After meeting last week with President Donald Trump, Morehouse President John Wilson Jr. kept it 100, releasing a statement that described the two days of meetings as, well, "troubling." Leaders like Wilson likely wouldn’t have called the meeting “troubling” had they followed any of these steps. → Read More

Teens Sentenced To Read Books After Vandalizing Historic Black School, Seriously?

A Virginia judge sentenced five teens, convicted for spray-painting racial slurs on an abandoned school, to read books about diversity. → Read More

HTGAWM: 5 WTF Moments That Almost Trumped Trump’s Election

This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us back to the week before the fateful fire. Annalise’s gang reached new levels of dysfunction, leaving us like, “WTF?!” 1. → Read More

7 Ways to Stay Safe and Sane This Election Day

This Election Day kind of feels like the day you’re scheduled to get your wisdom teeth pulled: You’ve gotta do it, and it’s gonna hurt, but you’re not sure how much it will hurt. → Read More

In Too Deep: 5 Point-of-No-Return Moments From This Week’s HTGAWM

Two weeks before the murder, the Keating Five on How to Get Away With Murder show us that some things can never be undone. Here are five clues that you’ve reached the point of no return: 1. → Read More

The Top 5 Panic-Inducing Moments of This Week’s How to Get Away With Murder

This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us to three weeks before the fire at Annalise’s house. The stuff they did and the tricks they pulled—it was enough to send anyone to the counseling couch. → Read More