Volume on xenophobia and racism on blast
Pres. Trump’s statement illustrates how perceptions of birthright, citizenship, ownership, and racial entitlement have upped the volume of xenophobia and...
New voting laws can disrupt GOP’s ‘power grab’
Allowing American voters a more accessible and a stress-free trip to their voting precincts should be a no-brainer.
20 years later: Was Matthew Shepard’s murder a hate crime (or a drug crime)?
Last week marked 20 years since Matthew Shepard's death on October 12, 1998. Then 21, he was a first-year college...
Does ‘Sesame Street’ need to come out of the closet?
I realize, however, in a culture that constantly sexualizes the coupling of same-gender relationships as gay, we ignore our friendships...
Is the Catholic Church unsalvageable?
The question not asked by the church’s governing body is why does sexual abuse persist as it does among its...
Does the GOP have a racist cut-off point?
President Donald Trump traffics in racial epithets. Since his first year in office, Trump’s displays of xenophobic, misogynistic, LGBTQ-phobic, and...
That N-word, again
I contend that you cannot conjugate the word, because it is firmly embedded in the lexicon of racist language that...
LGBTQ of color being bleached from history
I like to say there was something in the air at Pride 2017, as it was one of the most...
MLK’s assassination reminds the nation of unaddressed gun violence
The 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination is, sadly, a searing reminder of unaddressed gun...
A Black girl’s take on ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
A Wrinkle in Time was a must-see film for me, and a must-see flick worldly different from dashing out to...
Pastor’s criticism of LGBTQ not mentioned in his public eulogies
The Reverend William (Billy) Franklin Graham Jr. (1918 - 2018) has died at the age of 99. Too often, hagiographies are...
Revisiting Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglas is dead. Last year this time, however, President Donald J. Trump didn't appear to know that fact. In...
Pimping King
With 2018 being the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, commemorations honoring the man were...
For Black women, being called the Democrats’ ‘backbone’ is no compliment
Black women voters in the recent Alabama U.S. Senate race are being thanked for “saving” the state from Republican candidate...
The New Jim Crow targets LGBTQ Americans, too
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case “Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.”...
John Kelly needs a queer history lesson on the Civil War
Boston-born White House chief of staff John Kelly’s recent remark on Laura Ingraham’s new Fox News show reopened a divide...
Disasters are not spiritual revenge
Since the intentional misreading of the Sodom and Gomorrah story in Genesis 19 in the Bible where the twin cities...
Who was the intended ‘Detroit’ movie audience?
Fifty years ago, this summer, an urban rebellion took place. One hundred and fifty-nine riots erupted in African American cities across the...
DignityUSA is moving toward radical inclusion
With the Catholic Church being the largest Christian denomination in the world the fight for the dignity and inclusion of its LGBTQI parishioners...
The enduring use of the N-word
In this political climate hate speech is becoming common use. And there has been an uptick of the use of...
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