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A Message from the Editors Concerning the Execution of Troy Anthony Davis
We join millions of Americans in expressing our profound sorrow tonight that despite recantations and substantial doubt concerning his guilt, the state of Georgia has proceeded with the execution of...
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Wangari Maathai Obituary (1941-2011)
By Sonalini Kaur Sapra Wangari Maathai (© Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images) Wangari Maathai has been an inspiration to many for her unflagging passion and commitment to women’s rights and...
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Breaking News: Hip Hop artist, Heavy D, dead at 44
Hip Hop fans are mourning the loss of Hip Hop legend, Heavy D (Dwight Errington Myers), who died suddenly yesterday. Hip Hop culture often gets a bad rap for re-producing, circulating and maintaining...
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Kim Jong-il, North Korean Leader, is Dead
Kim Jong-il, the reclusive North Korean leader who has been battling ill health following a reported stroke in 2008, has died, the North’s official news media reported on Monday. For more, visit the...
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Who’s going to sing a black boys’ song?
For Trayvon, Michael and Martin, and all other black boys sable mappings cover him like an ethno-alien cartogram dipped deeply and precisely in ebony timber whipped in/two industrial multiplexes...
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Remembering and Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Aaronette M. White
It is with deep sadness and profound devastation that I share that radical Black/Pan-African feminist activist and social psychologist Aaronette M. White, Ph.D., recently made her physical transition....
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In Remembrance of Helen Gurley Brown: A Complicated Feminist Hero
By Mandy Van Deven Media icon and cultural pioneer Helen Gurley Brown passed away August 13 at the age of 90. Although I saw her name on feminist tees and bumper stickers for years, my first real...
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Find the Good in Women Who Aren't Margaret Thatcher
By Ren Jender “She must have been miserable,” one of my Facebook “friends” wrote as a kind of eulogy for Margaret Thatcher. I had to disagree. Margaret Thatcher, before she began to suffer from...
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An Open Letter to Same Gender Loving Black Men
By David J. Malebranche My heart is heavy. My soul longs for relief. Yesterday my dear friend, mentee and little brother, Warner McGee, transitioned after being taken off life support by his mother...
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A Preemptive Strike: Cannibalizing Queer People of Color in the Aftermath of...
**Editor’s Note: We interrupt our summer break to honor the loved ones lost in the Pulse Orlando shootings** By AM Foiles Sifuentes This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds...
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