Before the sun comes up and before most people are even awake, one group of Lowcountry women is already on the move; the women of Black Girls Run! Charleston.

Running with Black Girls Run is a group experience that celebrates each individual achievement. Like many of the women in the group, Dionne Scrivens had never run before joining Black Girls Run.

This Saturday, Black Girls RUN!, a group of more than 100 women, will be participating in a 4-mile run to help tackle obesity. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLWT News 5 at 10:00.

But it hasn't been easy. "So for me to come from 326 pounds, barely able to walk across the street, to being able to run now, it's been a huge emotional journey," Dodson said.

Black Girls Run was founded a decade ago to motivate women to take charge of their own health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, four out of five Black women are overweight.

When you hear the name Black Girls Run, you might be taken aback by the simple, yet blunt, moniker. It gets your attention. That's why the mission started.

Black Girls RUN! was started in 2009 by former college classmates Toni Carey, who lives in Norfolk, Va., and Ashley Hicks, an Atlanta native and resident, as an online blog.

Black girls run? Of course we do. In packs actually. In 2009, Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! and in April 2010 more than 60 running groups were launched across the nation.

GUILDERLAND - Black Girls RUN!, whose Albany chapter has participated in the Freihofer’s Run for Women for several years, is promoting the event to its national membership for this year’s ...

Kynita Humphrey was 340 pounds at age 42. That was three years ago. Since then, her life has changed in ways unimaginable. She started weight-loss and exercise programs. One year after she started ...

"Black Girls Run! means so much to me, as it does to so many other women," said Billups, now 44. "It is that safe space where women can come together with no pretenses and be able to move without ...

RACINE — About 25 black women walked along Pershing Park Saturday morning, laughing and cheering despite the early hour and the chill in the air.