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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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romanticizing Smith’s violence as an act of chivalry masks its toxic masculinity.
By now, everyone has seen or heard about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars for making a tasteless and misogynistic joke about his wife’s…
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In a milieu of anti-Blackness, discrimination doesn’t stop at skin color. It includes our dress style, music, dance, speech and hair, too.
How I wear my hair is my business. Ironically, the commonwealth is deciding it is now legal for me to do so. Last week, Massachusetts lawmakers…
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Russia’s Ukraine invasion helps the world see what our inhumanity toward each other looks like. Also, it highlights the persistence of a global racist social order even in a humanitarian crisis.
Russia has invaded Ukraine. European countries bordering Ukraine have welcomed its traumatized neighbors – an open-arm welcome in stark contrast with Black international students left out…
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how we view race today in America is very different than how it was viewed in Europe during the Holocaust.
Conversations about race in America are our third rail. It trips us all up. Whoopi Goldberg proved that last week on the television talk show “The…
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What is happening in America right now is not just a crisis for Jews, it is a crisis for this nation as a whole. It is an assault on the very thing that makes us all Americans.
This year for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I joined the Congregation Beth Israel of Merrimack Valley’s book discussion “People Love Dead Jews” by…
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Few have changed and challenged feminism like bell hooks.
Notable African Americans died in 2021. Each one left an indelible mark on American society. One who touched me personally was bell hooks. bell hooks died…
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How will Smollett's hoax affect public perception of hate crimes, significantly impacting people of color in the LGBTQ+ communities?
Former "Empire" actor, Jussie Smollett, was found guilty on five of the six counts of felony disorderly conduct for concocting an elaborate racist and homophobic assault…
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White fragility is shown in the discomfort and defensiveness when whites are asked to address front and center racial injustice—whether in the Deep South or the urban North.
When a predominately white jury found the McMichaels and Bryan guilty of felony murder among other charges in the Ahmaud Arbery case, many assumed justice was…
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as Americans, we should focus on creating this nation as a solid rock that rests on a multicultural and democratic foundation.
Before this year’s national celebration of Thanksgiving, the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, just 43 miles southwest from Cambridge, where I reside, will celebrate its 400th Thanksgiving…
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