October marks the observance of LGBTQ/SGL History Month . During this month we celebrate the lives and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people. Too often LGBTQ/SGL people are erased, our contributions are rendered invisible in public schools, in the media, and in our homes. LGBTQ/SGL History Month, first …
Have you taken a look at the recently published Out magazine’s Power 50 in 2018list yet? Am I the only one who is pleasantly surprised to several Black and Latin faces on the list? For more than a decade, LGBT media staple Out magazine releases its own Power 50 list to highlight the influences of LGBTQ leaders …
Forty-year-old Kiana Calloway doesn’t know what it feels like to cast a ballot. He does know, however, what it’s like to be wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder at 16 years old, to be tried as an adult, and to serve 17 years in prison. He also knows what it feels like to live under strict …
No longer ‘voiceless,’ Louisiana felons regain the right to vote Read More »
African American children are taking their lives at roughly twice the rate of their white counterparts, according to a new study that shows a widening gap between the two groups. The 2001-2015 data, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, confirm a pattern first identified several years ago when researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in …
Suicide rates for black children twice that of white children, new data show Read More »
Social Architect Dr. Cleo Manago discusses the Clark’s doll test from the 1940s and how the results aren’t much different in modern iterations of the same test. He continues the discussion about why black children choose white dolls over black dolls. Later iterations of this test appeared on major news channels such as CNN. He …
Doll Test: Guiding Black Children to the Black Doll Read More »
By Duke Porter Confession. I never understood the whys as a Black Community we have decided to treat Bow Wow (Shad Moss) the way we do. But I was never really interested in stopping it either. Today I am. We talk mental health blah blah blah. And this man is really talking about wanting to …
You’re invited to attend the Breaking Bread project; taking place January 23rd – 24th in Atlanta, GA (580 Holderness Street, SW).
A central goal of Breaking Bread is education, affirmation, healing and legacy building, or nurturing it toward changing the tide or tendencies that keep leading the SGL and bisexual Black community – year after year, decade after decade, into not having much. Not having “change or thrive infrastructure,” organizations and/or safe affirming or healing spaces, …
I was never the cool kid when I was younger. I was either the personification of a homophobic slur or the lonely, pensive guy who everyone either loved or resented. But since I graduated high school more than a decade ago, I know that there has been a vast improvement of my own self-image. As …
Meet two of the main characters in Car Wash, one who dreams beyond working at the Car Wash and the other who is not amused by the other employee’s silly games. Watch Unsung Hollywood Wednesdays 8/7c.
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