Category: Inclusion

The last time a nation came to Washington and was mesmerized and stirred to action by the oratory brilliance of an African American man was at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech. In that speech King said “I have…

If you are African American and gay, and fighting alongside your white LGBTQ 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 easy for some to…

In the face of a financial Armageddon, the economy has become the center of the campaign, where it should have been all along. But the moment all Americans have been waiting for – the McCain-Obama debate – was a yawn. The melodrama and histrionics of whether the debate would happen titillated anxious taxpayers hopes about…

Since McCain chose the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his V.P pick, there has been bantering and bickering from the distaff side of our American electorate. The cat fight from female electorates of both political parties is whether or not Palin’s candidacy is good for women, and whether or not her abilities honorably represent…

In the past, Oprah has had presidential hopefuls on her show like Al Gore and George Bush during their 2000 bid. By having both candidates on her show, Oprah not only appeared bipartisan, she also catered to her audience, comprised of both Bush Republicans and Gore Democrats. When Oprah endorsed Barack Obama, I was excited…

First Commentary Will “Feminists for Obama” help us? Michelle Obama won’t use the F-word. Alice Walker called it by another name. Her daughter, Rebecca Walker, an icon of the “Third Wave” of feminism, redefined the F-word and then denounced it. And when Hillary Clinton used the F-word, before she ran for president, she got clobbered…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, the Rev. Irene Monroe, is a religion columnist, theologian, and public speaker. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe is a graduate from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a…