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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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Some feel Halloween no longer brings joy and laughter in a “woke” culture where the tyranny of political correctness and identity politics police behavior.
Halloween is one of America’s favorite yearly activities. Unfortunately, Halloween can be America’s scariest, too-especially for those of us seen as costumes you wear rather than…
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Black women have decried how black pastors have used self-serving theological reasoning in supporting Kelly and the deleterious effects it has had on them, reporting sexual abuse and rape, especially by their male parishioners, deacons and pastors.
The long-awaited justice for R. Kelly’s survivors finally came last month when a New York federal jury found him guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking. For…
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Archbishop Bean worked tirelessly for the liberation of the underserved and for LGBTQ people of faith and, in doing so, helped many around the world find their way back to spirituality and religion,"
This May, when Lady Gaga celebrated the 10th anniversary of her hit album "Born this Way," she gave an acknowledgment shoutout to Bishop Carl Bean (May…
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The least of the Olympics’ concerns should be that of swim caps for Black hair. But the International Swimming Federation of the IOC said the design of the swim caps does not fit “the natural form of the head,” a statement eerily reminiscent of the eugenics movement’s propaganda to substantiate Black anatomical and intellectual inferiority.
The Olympics begin Friday in Japan. There is a lot on the International Olympic Committee’s docket to be concern about in this pandemic: 83 percent of…
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The Black Church purported to preach and practice a prophetic social gospel. However, in truth, it preaches and practices a heteronormative conservative gospel tethered to a model no longer relevant to a younger generation that embraces LGBTQ+ social justice issues.
Every once in a while a reader will ask me to please respond to their question in my column. This reader asked, "What should be the…
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Black patriotism is exhibited not only on the battlefields of America's wars but also in America's streets and sports arenas.
This July 4th, America will celebrate 245 years of independence from British rule. However, when President Joe Biden signed into law Juneteenth as a federal holiday,…
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Transmisogyny and racism put transgender women of color, in particular, at a high risk of police violence.
Over the weekend, the second annual Trans Resistance March (TRM) and Rally took place. Noticeably missing guiding and participating in the march from Nubian Square in…
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Today the reality for Black Tulsans is grim, and their lives are besieged with nonstop policing, poverty and prison.
The struggle for Black Tulsan survivors and their descendants to receive reparations has been a century-old controversy, one that is a pox on this country’s unwillingness…
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what role does the church play in perpetuating not only unsafe sexual behavior but also demonizing its members of the LGBTQ community?
The most significant factor that keeps the Black Church on the down-low is closeted, homophobic ministers. Pastor Donnie McClurkin, a three-time Gospel Grammy winner and the…
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