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Today the reality for Black Tulsans is grim, and their lives are besieged with nonstop policing, poverty and prison.
The struggle for Black Tulsan survivors and their descendants to receive reparations has been a century-old controversy, one that is a pox on this country’s unwillingness…
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what role does the church play in perpetuating not only unsafe sexual behavior but also demonizing its members of the LGBTQ community?
The most significant factor that keeps the Black Church on the down-low is closeted, homophobic ministers. Pastor Donnie McClurkin, a three-time Gospel Grammy winner and the…
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The decree will cause harm and hurt to a community of worshippers that loves a church that doesn’t love them.
Once again, Pope Francis has shocked the global Catholic LGBTQ+ community. Last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, issued…
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She is one of the new voices continuing the African American women’s literary tradition – blending writing with activism.
Amanda Gorman mesmerized a nation with her inauguration poem “The Hill We Climb.” The beauty of her presence and the power of her words captured a…
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Americans cannot be blamed for the misinformation we have absorbed from our culture, but we are responsible when we repeat that misinformation and unexamined racism after we have learned otherwise.
The year 2020 has been a stressful one. With George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis, Minn., police officer as an inflection point about…
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The troubling question is, will blacks and Latinx Americans show up?
Massachusetts hospitals are filling up again, like those across the country. Many of the patients are blacks and Latinx Americans, the demographic groups disproportionately slammed by…
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Black women have paved the way for women and other underrepresented demographic groups in U.S. politics,
The struggle to get president-elect Joe Biden to the finish line first with 270 Electoral College votes was unquestionably an epic battle. However, Joe’s battle wasn’t…
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Since Francis opposes marriage equality and transgender rights, what does his pronouncement endorsing civil unions really mean?
Pope Francis has expressed support for civil unions in the Catholic Church. Once again, the pontiff has sent shockwaves across the globe to 1.3 billion of…
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Ginsburg’s death comes as a crushing blow to those of us who believe in building a multicultural democracy and a participatory government, where protests are understood as a citizen’s First Amendment right to do so.
Like so many Americans across the country, I, too, am mourning the news that U.S. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died due to complications from…
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Lewis said, "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." To honor John Lewis, good trouble this November election would be to vote out our present Republican thugocracy. As voters, we don't have to capitulate to the powers that be, because the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
All Votes Matter! Civil rights icon US Representative John Lewis, who died of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, spent his life advocating equal access to the ballot…
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