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Issue: 672

October 27, 2016

Commentary

Halloween: Our American LGBTQ Holiday

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Like its pagan roots, Halloween provides an outlet for us cross-dressing and gender-bending LGBTQ outsiders who are ostracized by mainstream society.

Halloween is America’s gay holiday. In the words of the lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is "the great gay holiday." And this weekend of…

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Commentary

Concepts African People Should Know

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

When we discuss genocide against African People in America, we must also discuss the Maafa, because it was this Maafa that has historically created the on-going genocidal conditions inflicted against African People in America.

At this current stage of history in the Black Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to…

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