Commentary
Editorial Board
Looking at Boston's racial history through the lens of public school education, one can easily see an area of its troubling past still present today.
Southie is no longer that close-knit old school “tough-as-nail” Irish Catholic enclave. But the historical memory still lingers because, in my opinion, stereotypes about class makes…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
"If white artists are going to deal with race, we need to be ready to take the heat and be accountable if we offend people. I think we should deal with race, and get into the conversations that follow, and then be ready to make things as right as possible if we offend people,
When artist Dana Schutz presented “Open Casket,” an abstract painting of Emmett Till’s open casket-the Chicagoan 14 year old African American male teen lynched in the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
While the debate now has black Brits feuding with African Americans about who can best portray the African American experience the debate has also highlighted that differences within diversity is not only about race or skin-color, but it is also about ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs,
With this year’s Academy Awards showcasing the most diversity in its history the #OscarsSoWhite controversy might now be over. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Editorial Board
The work at True Colors builds confidence, and acceptance of self and others. The power derived from sharing their stories and publicly holding them up as models of activism empowers the troupe and informs communities struggling with LGBTQ-acceptance.
The next night following “Moonlight’s” win for Best Picture at the Oscars, a first for a black LGBTQ film, True Colors Out Youth Theater - the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
I believe free speech not only has its limits, but that it also has a level of responsibility to promote civil discourse for the welfare of others, and reject hate speech which is a precursor to violence.
Milo Yiannopoulos, vulgarian, alt-right’s telegenic token gay and Breitbart’s polemical senior editor, last appearance on a national stage may have finally come. And, the bridge too…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
many white Trumpian conservatives are now more emboldened than ever to not only contest the celebration of Black History Month but to also insist now on a white history month.
February 1 began Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African Americans.To commemorate its start President Trump hosted…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
For Trump to not acknowledge the victims of the Holocaust but rather to reference them by stating “in the name of the perished” glosses over not only the Holocaust’s distinct historical circumstances, like how already existing prejudices and fears were stoked and amplified against Jews, but it also conceals and denies German Christian anti-Semitism, and it erases the unique stories of survival, bravery and resistance by Jews and their allies.
Trump’s public statement commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day omitted any mention of Judaism, anti-Semitism or the Nazis’ systematic program exterminating European Jewry. The omission was not…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Unlike previous women’s marches and waves of feminism that had primarily been an intentionally exclusive group of female country club members that spoke to Betty Friedan's feminine mystique of upper-crust “pumps and pearls” wearing white women, this march was intentional in bringing various women and their voices and concerns to the organizing table.
The number of people who took to the streets for Women’s March on Washington in D.C. and its sister marches across the country and the globe…
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Editorial Board
Long had been rumored, for some time, to be gay. And for those inside of Long’s stained-glass closet at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, they, too, knew of the bishop’s penchant for pubescent boys, whom he called “spiritual sons.”
When news hit the airwaves that Bishop Eddie Long died from an unnamed aggressive cancer resulting in dramatic weight lost, many now throughout the Black Church…
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Editorial Board
Our silence, shame, and stigma around issues of identity, sexual practices, and the lack of pastoral care to people deemed “outsiders” are factor contributing not only to high-risk sexual behaviors and the transmission of HIV/AIDS, but also to the silent killer of suicide and homelessness in my community.
Gospel music undeniably has a queerness at its roots that has not only shaped the genre but it has continued to give gospel music its enduring…
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