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Legal scholar and author Geoffrey Stone delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Woodhull Foundation Sexual Freedom Summit. Entitled, “Sex…
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This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
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… there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:9 When I heard about 50 people at a gay nightclub…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
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Blogger’s note: This post was originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the…
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This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
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At the Emancipation Day parade in Trinidad, something happened that I didn’t expect: Jesus showed up. The truck we had…
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Do public celebrations commemorating emancipation, heritage and history help to instill a private consciousness in the people of the communities…
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Last week I had the privilege of attending Freedom Dreams Freedom Now, a conference sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative at…
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During my Fulbright-National Geographic application process (from initial decision to apply to outcome), there were three specific times I seriously…
I’m a little late on looking back, but I wrote 67 posts in 2013. Here’s my top 10 list of…
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In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
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What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
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Many years ago, my father said that by the time I have children, they’ll be white kids dipped in chocolate….
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***Update 6/11/2013: If writers of color need a space to gather, their books need a place to be sold, and…
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As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback….
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I was going over a long list of possible topics to blog about when I jumped on Twitter to…
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I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…
At an event a few weeks ago about cross-generational workplaces, I learned that most members of any given generation are…
My first post on Ebony.com went live there on April 25. It starts: The recent class action lawsuit against ABC…
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban…
“Planters care for nothing but to buy Negroes to raise cotton & raise cotton to buy Negroes.â€Â –an unnamed southerner…
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