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Oprah Hurts Obama - Inclusion By The Reverend Irene Monroe
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, The Reverend Irene Monroe is an ordained minister, motivational speaker and she speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible. Rev. Monroe does a weekly Monday segment, “All Revved Up!” on WGBH (89.7 FM), on Boston Public Radio and a weekly Friday segment “The Take” on New England Channel NEWS (NECN). She’s a Huffington Post blogger and a syndicated religion columnist. Her columns appear in cities across the country and in the U.K, and Canada. Also she writes a column in the Boston home LGBTQ newspaper Baywindows and Cambridge Chronicle. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Rev. Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church in New Jersey before coming to Harvard Divinity School to do her doctorate. She has received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching several times while being the head teaching fellow of the Rev. Peter Gomes, the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard who is the author of the best seller, THE GOOD
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From time to time, when I need a Nikki Giovanni fix, I’ll read some of her poems or listen to one of my scratchy albums to hear the lyricism in her voice talk to me.
On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What…
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The epidemic is heavily concentrated in urban enclaves like Detroit, New York, Newark, and Washington, D.C.
Dec. 1 was World AIDS Day. The international theme for 2024 was “Take the Rights Path: My Health, My Right!” The World Health Organization (WHO) wants…
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While it’s true that black men are a vital voting bloc, they are not a monolith.
The last time I saw a huge gathering of Black men was the Million Man March in 1995. They came to the nation’s capital to voice…
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The LGBTQ+ community must push Harris on a laundry list of issues.
William Shakespeare’s phrase, “Timing is everything,” is apt for this election period for Vice President Kamala Harris. At no other time would she be uniquely positioned…
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She has reenergized the base and injected hope, focusing on working folks like me.
Kamala Harris’s life as Vice President took a 180-turn in 24 hours from her stumping for Biden in Provincetown, an LGBTQ+ culture hub and haven, on…
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despite the unequal treatment of African Americans in the United States, Black patriotism shines across the pages of U.S. history.
This July Fourth, for the 248th time, America celebrates independence from British rule. But after President Joe Biden signed into law Juneteenth as a federal holiday,…
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The reality here is that the Catholic Church is a gay institution. And that is not a bad thing!
Pope Francis sent global shock waves when the news broke that he used the highly offensive f -word “frociaggine,” meaning “faggotness” in Italian. In a closed-door…
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the LGBTQ+ community has come a long way since the first Pride marches.
Massachusetts celebrated 20 Years of Marriage Equality on May 17, thanks to the landmark decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. This decision preceded the…
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For decades, the UMC has struggled to adopt a policy of fully including its LGBTQ parishioners, clergy, and all the spiritual gifts we bring to the church.
This month, United Methodist Church delegates voted to repeal its church’s long-held exclusionary stance of its LGBTQ Methodists - meaning, church doctrine, polity, and social standing.…
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