Candice Marie Benbow hired by TheGrio

Theologian and essayist Candice Marie Benbow has been hired as the daily lifestyle, education, and health writer at TheGrio, MSNBC’s website for Black news and entertainment.

Benbow is perhaps best known for creating #LemonadeSyllabus in 2016 following the release of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. What began as a hashtag and social media campaign eventually became a free, downloadable resource with more than 250 works by over 70 contributors.

Since then, Benbow has become a sought-after thinker and writer on the topics of beauty, feminism, faith, and culture. She says that her goal is to reimagine how faith can be a tool of liberation for women and girls—specifically, she wants to help Black women think critically about how they see God and the world.