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You can help Black Lives Matter by becoming a better listener
Good intentions aren’t enough.
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Restoring the Voting Rights Act honors John Lewis
To honor John Lewis, we need to vote out the Republican thug-ocracy this November.
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How do we celebrate Pride when police are still beating & killing us?
LGBTQ civil rights and black civil rights histories intersect on many issues — with violence and police brutality among them.
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People were dying faster than we could funeralize during the AIDS pandemic. It’s happening again.
And, once again, African American women have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Togetherness will get us through the coronavirus pandemic
This pandemic doesn’t call for pandemonium. Our collective concern should be about saving lives, not the momentary inconvenience to our lifestyles.
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals she has no hair in a culture obsessed with black women’s hair
The Congresswoman’s braids are an inspiration to many, but she now she wants to be “free from the secret and the shame.”
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LGBTQ Methodists were stuck loving a church that didn’t love them back. Sound familiar?
As a nation, we’re at crossroads on many issues. It’s a shame when a church cannot bring us together.
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Whitney Houston comes out after her death. Again.
If Whitney Houston could have been accepted as a bisexual woman, she might still be alive today.
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Should Black Christians continue to be forgiving?
I now question if our religion’s teachings of forgiveness are serving us well, particularly with the resurgence of white nationalism.
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My family is due reparations. The government is still trying to take their land.
Sometime before 1877, Great Grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate as her brood try to scrape together enough money to keep it.