Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wife, who sadly passed away just five years ago at the end of this month, spoke in 1996 at...
Accusing Herman Cain of being a flip-flopper — as Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum all did this past week — is a fair start...
The name Rosa Parks is synonymous with the fight for civil rights. I’m happy to say, “Happy Birthday!” to Rosa Parks, the woman who, sadly, we...
In the fight for full LGBT equality, let’s remember that inherently, our rights are the same as everyone else’s. The battle will be won only when...
“The only thing the repeal of DADT changes is that LGB folks can now fight and possibly die for this country. It does not allow for...
An eight-page letter that bears the signature of “Congressman Ron Paul” claims people with AIDS, “enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick,” warns...
  Go back to Part I. Continue to Part III. 2 My first real introduction to the film The Help was a movie poster I saw at a bus stop:...
 NYC police aggressively arrest Occupy Wall Street activists, while the movement goes global with actions in Berlin, London, Rome & Tokyo; American jobs bill dies in Congress and a Ugandan lesbian activist honored by human...
Sally Kern, the homophobic Oklahoma state legislator who last week made racist and misogynistic comments on the House floor, has received an official rebuke from her...
Presents U.S. LGBT Movement New Opportunity To Forge Progressive Political Agenda With Allies From Madison to Tripoli, the conventional understanding of political order at home and...
Malcolm X — one of the African-American community’s most influential and most controversial activists — has been the subject of recent re-examinations as a new biography, “Malcolm...
November 15, 2010, from left: Dan Fotou, Army Staff Sergeant Miriam Ben-Shalom, Michael Bedwell, Army Specialist Rob Smith, Transgender Navy Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Roman Catholic...
A leader of the NAACP has come out attacking gays, and he is demanding the “gay community stop hijacking the civil rights movement.â€Â Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr.,...
Dear Herman Cain,  I’m writing this letter to you because you need to be told off, and I’m the one to do it. You see,...
Editor’s note: The National Prayer Breakfast was the focus of much of the day, but there were other issues we’re working on, like the vigil for...