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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 decree will cause harm and hurt to a community of worshippers that loves a church that doesn’t love them.
Once again, Pope Francis has shocked the global Catholic LGBTQ+ community. Last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, issued…
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She is one of the new voices continuing the African American women’s literary tradition – blending writing with activism.
Amanda Gorman mesmerized a nation with her inauguration poem “The Hill We Climb.” The beauty of her presence and the power of her words captured a…
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Americans cannot be blamed for the misinformation we have absorbed from our culture, but we are responsible when we repeat that misinformation and unexamined racism after we have learned otherwise.
The year 2020 has been a stressful one. With George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis, Minn., police officer as an inflection point about…
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The troubling question is, will blacks and Latinx Americans show up?
Massachusetts hospitals are filling up again, like those across the country. Many of the patients are blacks and Latinx Americans, the demographic groups disproportionately slammed by…
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Black women have paved the way for women and other underrepresented demographic groups in U.S. politics,
The struggle to get president-elect Joe Biden to the finish line first with 270 Electoral College votes was unquestionably an epic battle. However, Joe’s battle wasn’t…
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Since Francis opposes marriage equality and transgender rights, what does his pronouncement endorsing civil unions really mean?
Pope Francis has expressed support for civil unions in the Catholic Church. Once again, the pontiff has sent shockwaves across the globe to 1.3 billion of…
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Ginsburg’s death comes as a crushing blow to those of us who believe in building a multicultural democracy and a participatory government, where protests are understood as a citizen’s First Amendment right to do so.
Like so many Americans across the country, I, too, am mourning the news that U.S. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died due to complications from…
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Lewis said, "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." To honor John Lewis, good trouble this November election would be to vote out our present Republican thugocracy. As voters, we don't have to capitulate to the powers that be, because the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
All Votes Matter! Civil rights icon US Representative John Lewis, who died of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, spent his life advocating equal access to the ballot…
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The act of patriotism Patrick Henry expressed allowed for marginalized voices to participate in a thriving democracy. However, democracy can only begin to work when those relegated to the fringes of society can begin to sample what others take for granted as their inalienable right. We need more of the patriotism Kaeperneck exhibited at NFL games — now seen on the streets of America.
This Fourth of July, Americans are being forced to see the nation's celebration for independence differently. The combination of the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected…
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