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Issue: 763

November 08, 2018

Commentary

“Fun Home” Exposes the Straitjacket of Heterosexism

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

It is the first-ever Broadway musical to feature a lesbian protagonist, and an all-female creative team to win the Tony.

It is the first-ever Broadway musical to feature a lesbian protagonist, and an all-female creative team to win the Tony. Many of us in the LGBTQ…

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Commentary

The Importance of Understanding Egypt is in Africa

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

This issue has been at the core of European history, or better yet, European historiography (the science of how history is written) for more than two hundred years. This framework of European hegemony over the history of the world has had a devastating impact on African people and the African mind.

Until recently, there had been a scholarly debate among European intellectuals, as well as some Blacks, on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient…

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