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Black Queers Are Tying the Knot

Irene Monroe | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

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Irene Monroe

An idea that was once 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 aisle to tie the knot.

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Post Racial America? You Are Right!

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Rev. Bekeh Utietiang

We still have a long way to go in healing the divisions that exists between us and in "perfecting our union." It would be stupid to delude ourselves that we are in a post-racial America.

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Abraham Lincoln's Vegetarian Address

Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy

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Dave Astor

"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty Debate, Thomas Jefferson, Ebony Magazine, Reverend Joseph Lowery, A. Leon Higginbotham, African American, Black History Month, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Virginia, Martin Luther King, Cesare Beccaria, Slavery, On Crimes and Punishment, Abolition Democracy, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Death Penalty, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Abolitionists, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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The Last Time We Vote For Bigotry

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

The time has come to put our votes and our money where our mouth is and no longer tolerate the malleable bigotry of those who profess to be our friends, but also say we are not quite worthy of the same rights.

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Frank Talk on Race and Prop. 8

Wayne Besen | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jasmyne Cannick, Desmond Tutu, Civil Rights Movement, Mormon, GLBT Community, Martin Luther King Jr., Emanicipation, Gay Community, California Gay Marriage, The Bible, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Anti-Semitism, Prop 8, Homophobia, Racism, Congressional Black Caucus, Coretta Scott King, Charles Barkley, Gay Marriage, African Americans, Catholic, Politics News
Wayne Besen

In moving forward, we must build a coalition that embraces a universal set of principles. If we stupidly divide ourselves by sexual orientation or race, we can only expect a race to the bottom.

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Obama -- Learning from Kings

Vickie Karp | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Vickie Karp

At the funeral service for Coretta Scott King on February 7, 2006, Dr. Maya Angelou made one of the most beautiful speeches I've ever heard. Subject?...

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