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The 20-year-old's return to the podium is her first win before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this August. Douglas finished strong, earning a score of 60.165 during the competition.

The “Flying Squirrel” isn't playing about her Olympic #RoadToRio, winning her first gold medal since 2012.

  Gabby Douglas will be bringing cameras along as she preps for the 2016 Summer Olympics with her new reality show! Oxygen has just announced…

  Another young woman has joined the ranks of great Black gymnasts, and you won’t believe you haven’t heard of her before. If anyone asks…

Who influences the world? Beyonce does. A few days after it was announced that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o was the cover star of People Magazine’s…

  On the first day of Black History Month, Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas’ inspirational story about her rise to success will air on the Lifetime network.  According to Essence, the upcoming movie co-stares Regina King, S. Epatha Merkerson, Imani Hakim, Sydney Mikayla as well as Douglas herself. “The Gabby Douglas Story tells the inspiring true story […]

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Gabrielle Douglas is exactly what #winning looks like. Prior to her Olympic triumphs, Gabrielle Douglas was crowned the 2004 Gymnastics State Champion in Virginia, which…

Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair are the names of the four young Black girls who lost their lives to senseless…

Olympic dynamo Gabby Douglas is planning to write an inspirational memoir that will tell the story about her journey to become the first African-American to win the…

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This past Sunday, two-time Olympic gold gymnast Gabrielle Douglas (pictured left) told Oprah Winfrey on her “Next Chapter” show that her teammates at Excalibur Gym in…

Golden Gabby Douglas has been making her rounds in the media. From Oprah to Letterman to Essence, we’re all consuming of the Olympic gynmast darling,…