Rev. Bernice King has been bestowed the honor to be the eighth president and first women to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Co-founded by her father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Rev. Bernice King may be a legacy pick for SCLC, but...

This Halloween many American children will dress up as witches. And we'll hear their laughter and see their smiles as they joyfully go from door-to-door trick-or-treating.

But in some places across the globe children would never pretend to be witches because the consequences are not only dire but they can also...

Morehouse College has a problem with its dress-code offenders.

These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their "bling bling" like gold chains, and "decorative orthodontic appliances" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself...

Congressman Barney Frank has been for decades the iconic image of gay civil rights advocacy on Capitol Hill.

For many years he was the lone voice and only openly gay congressman.

And as a Massachusetts resident I was once proud to say,...

I will not be in church this Sunday, but I will be in a place where my spiritual self will be fed. I will be participating in the National Equality March (NEM) this Sunday, carrying the banner of Faith in America, an organization that is working to stop bigotry disguised...

More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent are marrying.

An idea that was once thought of as anathema to black queer identity, marriage, in our LGBTQ communities, is being celebrated and on the rise. And many of us are now proudly walking down the...

If we resided in a post-racial society then William Faulkner's words uttered in the 20th century would not ring true in this century-"The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past."

With the election of Barack Obama as this nation's first...

Since the liberal arm of the U.S. Episcopal Church passed a resolution in July to bless same-sex unions, particularly in states like Massachusetts that legalize such marriages, so too has, at least, one black congregation within the Massachusetts diocese. On August 30, St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Cambridge hosted the...

None of us African-American residents of Cambridge are surprised or shocked by the humiliation and harassment Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 58, of Harvard University encountered at the hands of Cambridge police.

My partner, Dr.Thea James, an Emergency Room physician who would drive from home to work...

The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelmingly to overturn a three-year moratorium on the election of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queers to the episcopate.

While many LGBTQ Episcopalians and their allies are jumping for joy the battle isn't over.

The...

At Michael Jackson's memorial service the Rev. Al Sharpton gave a rousing speech that had the congregation at the Staple Center rise to their feet at times with shouts of Amen.

Sharpton made one particular statement in his speech to MJ's three children, addressing the reasons for...

The President has been an Obama-nation on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues since he's taken office.

The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our...

June is Pride Month. And Black Pride contributes to the multicultural aspect of joy and celebration in the queer communities. Black Pride symbolizes not only black LGBTQ uniqueness as individuals and communities, but it also affirms our varied expressions of LGBTQ life in America.

This year will...

If you are African American and gay, and fighting alongside your white brothers and sisters for queer civil rights, the notion that "Gay is the new black" is not only absurdly arrogant, it is also dangerously divisive.

In a presumably "post-racial" era with the country's first African American president-elect, it's...

Yesterday was World AIDS Day and Black women are dying of AIDS. And is anyone doing anything about it?

Right here in the nation's capitol, the HIV/AIDS epidemic rivals that of many Third World countries. Washington D.C. affectionately dubbed as "Chocolate City" is approximately 60 percent of...

I have learned as both a pastor and also as a member belonging to several minority groups -- African-American, women and lesbian -- that a popular opinion on a civil rights issue does not always reflect the right choice. Too often the right choice and the moral high ground on...