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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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The surge of activism and organizing was epic, and the CRC was in the mix.
Women’s History Month doesn’t do enough to lift up black lesbians. Fifty years ago, in 1974, the Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston by several…
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With the overturning of Roe v Wade, we saw justice wasn’t blind but rather biased.
France has just enshrined abortion rights in its Constitution. What’s wrong with the U.S.? It’s its collapse of the church into the affairs of the state.…
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The Black church applauds its LGBTQIA congregants in the choir pews yet excoriates us from the pulpits. It pimps our talent yet damns our souls with the theological qualifier of “love the sinner but hate the sin.”
Every Black History Month, there is always a tribute to the Black Church and its gospel music. The contribution of LGBTQIA singers to the canon of…
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the thought of Du Bois having written a romance novel didn’t fit the image of the man I learned about in college.
This Valentine’s Day, I paid homage to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1924 novel, “Dark Princess,” because it highlights the least talked about subject then and…
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Have both Pope Francis and the Vatican come to understand that their denunciation of our present-day gender theories and the fluidity of human sexuality not only perpetuates spiritual harm and alienation to our trans community but also unwittingly invites physical harm - done in the name of God?
It’s a rare opportunity to meet the pope. It’s even rarer if you’re a transgender Catholic. However, on November 19, in Torvaianica, Italy, a community of…
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They have made a difference in the lives around them, sharing their knowledge, experience, talent, and skills to enrich the lives of our community.
On November 12, Paul Glass and Charles D. Evans of Falmouth were honored with this year’s AARP Andrus Award for Community Service. It’s AARP’s most prestigious…
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With COVID-19 death rates hitting the LGBTQ+ community globally as hard as other minority communities worldwide, one would think the Church could put aside its homophobia.
The Super Bowl of the Catholic Church - General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly known as the Synod on Synodality - has Rome abuzz.…
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Being married or single should not be the litmus test for presidential elect-ability any more than one’s religion, however, queries about his unattached status would go away, as it has for New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker, 54, if he were not anti- LGBTQ
Tim Scott is running for president. It’s an impressive feat as the only African American Republican in today’s U.S. Senate and the first Southern Black senator…
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Today, Boston presents itself ready to change - not to erase its past, but rather as a city now able to provide opportunities for people of color and uphold their civil and human rights without discrimination.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was in town from July 26 to August 1. Over 7,000 people attended nationwide, with hundreds…
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