As white queerness moves into the mainstream, there may be certain unearned benefits and advantages that come with being a white gay man in American society.
The highly controversial Stonewall tanked this weekend. Thankfully. The movie — based on the...
Many people have a very limited understanding of the millenials and what they believe, think and do. In most cases, the millenials are defined as the people in their late twenties to early thirties. They are considered "different" from...
By Sebastian Johnson
“Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.” Psalm 74:4
For months, the events have gathered, scattered ominously across the landscape like dark foreboding clouds, pregnant with the force of...
Recent data from Personal Capital, a financial management company, shows the personal net worths of some presidential contenders.
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump leads with $4.1 billion. Democrat front-runner and former Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton holds over $30 million. Carly...
Following the execution of Michael Brown, I dedicated myself to the Movement for Black Lives. I became invested in the struggle to dismantle the surveillance police state, abolish the prison industrial complex, and build a formidable network of independent...
Breakout star Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont continues to draw large crowds and gain in national polls. The firebrand socialist taps into the undercurrent anti-establishment ethos that is becoming increasingly palpable as the populace grows disillusioned with the stoic...
As the Movement for Black Lives continues to capture hearts, minds, and labor of visionaries, dreamers, thinkers, activists, educators, community organizers, and cultural producers, there are some policy wonks, think-tank bredren, and political investors who dismiss pro-Black radicalism as...
There was a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal. There was a shooting, a massacre, and a tragedy at AME.
Calling it anything else — especially a #CharlestonShooting is a function of white supremacy. The erasure, the inability or...
I came into political consciousness in 2008 — the year that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama energized the leftist base with the promise of politics-no-longer-as-usual. I found myself annoyed that I was only a year away from legal voting age,...
Last night, CNN anchor Don Lemon — in his latest anti-Black stunt — justified the racist and violent actions of Sr. Deputy Ben Fields, the officer seen on camera assaulting a Black female-bodied student at Spring Valley High School...
